The school has no windows. Half the roof came down in 2020 and was never fully repaired. But every morning, 80 children arrive, sit on plastic chairs, and open notebooks filled with drawings — rockets turned into trees, tanks transformed into animals.
Their teacher, Nour, 34, invented the exercise herself. "If they can redraw the thing that frightens them," she says, "they begin to understand they have power over it."
What Nour has built is not just a school. It is a methodology — now adopted by 140 educators across three conflict-affected provinces — for teaching children that peace is not the absence of war. It is a skill that must be practised, like mathematics or reading.