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Without education, the potential of hundreds of thousands of talented young Syrian children risks being lost. That鈥檚 why we鈥檙e calling on the international community聽to ensure one million refugee children secure an education this year in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.

A World at School launched the 聽ahead of a crucial international Syria pledging conference in London on February 4. World leaders will meet to secure the $750 million needed to fund all the school places for refugee children.

Hope for Syria鈥檚 Young talent shows there is a generation of young people who will not be able to fulfil their potential if they denied an education.

The talented children found for this campaign were discovered by Sonbola, an education initiative working to provide quality education and interactive learning for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon while investing in empowering and developing teaching skills of Syrian professionals. .

In this series of articles, we talk to some of those talented girls and boys about their hopes and dreams. Click on the links to read their inspiring stories.

Samir, 13, Abdulrahman, 12, and nine-year-old Mohamed, live in Lebanon鈥檚 Bekaa Valley. They rap in a new video called Straight Outta Syria, which explores their story and shows that if they hadn鈥檛 returned to education, they would have not been able to develop their talent.

Abdulsalmouh Ahmad Hourieh, 14, and his sister Lana, 12, fled with their family after bombings at their school in Syria. They are now at school in Lebanon, where they say their love for chess has helped them settle in.

Fifteen-year-old聽Daham Mohammed Nawasara loves to read any book he can get his hands. He says it helps him in his school studies in Lebanon 鈥� and his ambition is to write for a living.聽

鈥淣o one else I know does Bollywood dancing 鈥� not my friends, not my sisters, just me,鈥� says the six-year-old.

Their father played for the Syrian national youth team 鈥� now the boys practise hard and dream of becoming professional players.

The 15-year-old loves to read and write poetry to help her express her feelings about war, pain and suffering. She said: 鈥淲hen I鈥檓 feeling bad I write and whenever I write I feel better.鈥�