Save the Children warned Tuesday that many Syrian children, who were forced to flee because of war, do not see a future for them in their countries, as the conflict enters its eleventh year this month.

"Ten years of war has cost the little ones in Syria their childhood," said Jeremy Stoner, director of the Middle East and Eastern Europe Regional Office at the organization.

"But the world should not allow it to rob them of their future."

The organization conducted a survey of 1,900 children and their caregivers, who were displaced inside Syria or refugees in neighboring countries, namely Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and in the Netherlands.

It was found that "86 percent of refugee children ... do not want to return to Syria," while one child out of three of the internally displaced prefers to live in another country.

The organization stated that "children who were forced to flee their homes are suffering in order to feel safe where they are today," noting that two out of five children spoke of "racism and lack of education."

The study conducted by the organization showed that three percent of children living in Turkey want to return to Syria, compared to 29 percent of refugees in Lebanon and nine percent of refugee children in Jordan and the Netherlands.

The report quoted a seven-year-old girl, Lara, who is displaced in Idlib in northwestern Syria, as saying, "I hope to live in any country other than Syria, a country with safety, schools and games."

In Akkar in northern Lebanon, Nada, 17, who had dreamed of becoming a doctor but is not receiving an education now, said, “I don't want to go back and live in Syria again, and I don't want to stay in Lebanon ... If we go to school, they tell us they don't want us. "

The ongoing conflict in Syria since mid-March 2011 has killed more than 387,000 people and has led to the displacement of more than six million Syrians inside the country, while about 5.6 million live in countries of asylum, including more than a million children who were born outside Syria, according to the United Nations.

The conflict has also turned children's lives upside down. According to the United Nations Children's Fund, more than 8.5 million Syrian children depend on aid inside Syria and in neighboring countries.

Sixty percent of children in Syria today suffer from food insecurity, and more than half of them lack education, according to the United Nations.