New York - Sana
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that more than two million Yemeni children are out of school due to poverty, war and lack of opportunities, which is twice the number of children who did not attend school in 2015, when the number reached 890,000 children.
The United Nations News Center quoted the organization's report on the impact of conflict on children's education that concern is growing that children who are out of school or who have recently dropped out of school may never return to school if they are not properly supported.
According to the report, 171,600 teachers, or two-thirds of education workers, have not received their salaries regularly for four years, forcing them to stop teaching, which puts about four million additional children at risk of losing access to education.
The report pointed out that there are more than 523,000 displaced school-age children suffering from difficulty in accessing education due to damaged schools and the lack of sufficient space in the classrooms.
The report pointed out that children are the first victims of this terrible crisis, as 11.3 million people need some form of humanitarian assistance or protection, and when the educational process in schools stops, children are more vulnerable to the risks of child labor or joining armed groups.
According to a UNICEF report, during the period between March 2015 and February 2021, more than 3,600 children in Yemen were recruited into armed forces and groups. In 2013, 17 percent of Yemeni children were involved in child labor. The number of working children is likely to increase due to the economic collapse in which they are witnessing To whom.
The Saudi aggression against Yemen, which has been going on since March 2015, has caused the deterioration of the economic, living and health conditions in the country as a result of the blockade imposed by the forces of aggression on Yemeni ports and not allowing the entry of relief and medical aid, which led to the largest humanitarian disaster in the world, according to several UN organizations.