The Syrian Refugees: A bright future

Hello readers! I hope you liked reading my last post as much as I enjoyed writing it. This subject is very important to me and I absolutely love writing about it. So to continue with my next post, I will be talking about what the future holds for the refugees. Like what kind of jobs are out there for them, the education opportunities for the children as well as the teenagers and the health care that will be provided for the refugees. I will mainly be focusing on those things in the countries of Canada and Germany since those are a few of the countries that are permanent homes for some of the refugees.

So to get started I will be talking about the job opportunities in Germany. One of the main reasons Germany was so open to taking in so many refugees is because they were hoping that since their work force is expected to drop 6 million people by 2030(since the death rate is higher than the birth rate now) that the big number of Syrian refugees would come in and create more jobs and take the jobs that are available. That is good for Germany because it helps keep a growing expansion. In Germany they have a bit of a crisis. With the birth rate getting lower there aren't enough young people to work in manual labor factories. When I say manual labor factories I mean jobs such as a car assembly line or a pipe factory. The job domain in Germany needing the most people is for sure the industrial section. Like I mentioned in my last post is that there is also a lot of job opportunities in private business`s like ones such as flooring, roofing, baking, cleaning services. Stuff like that. It isn't a problem at all for refugees in Germany to get a job because there are so many job slots open. An interesting fact I read was that even if every refugee aged 26-47 got a job, there would still be more job slots open.

Now for education. Around 60 universities are offering free courses and some are even thinking of paying for Syrian students full university education. Not all universities and colleges are offering things like this so not every refugee is available for things such as a free education. But the ones that aren't offered free education aren't left abandoned and do get help. For younger children in grade school, Germany has recruited 8,500 people to teach child refugees German so that they can attend German elementary schools. All of the elementary schools across Germany are accepting children and the school boards of Germany have figured that they will have to recruit 20,000 new teachers to teach in the expanding schools. All in all, Germany offering permanent homes to the refugees is beneficial to both the refugees and the country of Germany.

However, in Canada its a much different story for job opportunities. The refugees are going to face a very hard time finding any kind of employment. When they do find it they are going to be in minimum wage jobs with no benefits or any kind of pension. Adding in the factor that many refuges don't speak English or French it makes it even harder for them to land any of the jobs that are available. Jobs are key to being able to support you family. The Syrian families that are sponsored are alright because when they cant find jobs they always have their sponsors to fall back on. But the Syrian families that are government sponsored and aren't finding any type of employment wont be able to support their families and they don't really have anyone to fall back on. They will face a much more difficult time. Jobs are difficult to come by for any Canadian but the Syrian refugees will encounter even more difficulties finding gainful employment.

All of the child refugees coming in face some difficulties. Even though all the elementary schools in Canada offer free education, the children face some difficulties. An essential thing that the Syrian children don't have is the ability to speak English and or French. But another challenge they face is adapting to the idea of school. Some of the children don't even know what school is so it will definitely be a process for them to adapt. In an article I read it said ``it will be difficult for the children to grasp the concept of studying in a building that wont get bombed``. That hit me very very hard because young innocent children shouldn't have to worry in the morning about if they will get bombed at school or not. I understand that the children will face difficulties but they are difficulties that can be overcome, I am just happy that the children will not have to worry anymore about getting bombed at school.