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Volunteer Teachers: Strengthening Education and Improving Student Retention

Yemen Humanitarian Needs Overview 2024 estimates that over 4.5 million Yemeni children of school age (5 to 17 years) do not attend schools. Over the last few years, hundreds of thousands of students have left their schools, resorting to begging or assisting their parents at work or in the fields. Additionally, stu...

10,400children and teachers in Yemen to benefit from multi-sectoral education response with EU funding

Sana’a, 23 June 2024 –Around 10,250 children and 150 teachers in Yemen will benefit from muti-sectoral response to support education in emergencies thanks to a contribution from the EU Humanitarian Aid. The funding will enable UNICEF to provide comprehensive support to both out-of-school children and those already...

Transforming Education Challenges into Opportunities

Amid the protracted conflict in Yemen, millions of families remain displaced, posing serious learning obstacles to children who have not been able to return to school. To tackle the unique challenges and specific needs of students who missed out on education, teachers are trained to enhance their skills to effecti...

School Bags Spark Ambitions of Yemen’s Children

Education is the bedrock of progress for nations, illuminating the path to advancement and prosperity. Yet, in Yemen, where economic hardships and conflicts cast long shadows, barriers to education can appear overwhelming, leaving children vulnerable to a multitude of challenges. Opportunities are stolen, schools ...

Bridging the education gap of children displaced by conflict in Yemen

“Displacement was the most difficult thing I have ever experienced in my life,” says Mansor, a 12-year-old boy now living in northern Marib, Yemen. “We used to have a comfortable life, then the war broke out, so we were displaced. After the war, we returned to find our hometown and houses destroyed. Everything was...

Story of success and struggle for 14-year-old boy from Yemen

14-year-old Albara’a from Yemen has been displaced in Marib, in Al-Sowaida camp, with his family since 2020. He supports his family by selling mineral water to pedestrians and car drivers, as his father and two of his siblings are disabled. Nine years into the conflict in Yemen, children’s learning struggles persi...

Catching up on lost education:

Orphaned and displaced, Yousra dropped out of school before getting married at 12 and becoming a mother at 13. After years of lost education, Yousra, now 16 and a mother of three children, is back to school with her daughters, determined to change the course of her life. “I want to study so that no one can insult ...

Empowering Yemen's Displaced: Securing Birth Certificates to Access Education

According to the latest data from UNICEF, 4.5 million people in Yemen are now internally displaced. Those are families who had to flee their homes due to the long-lasting military conflict in the country. Today, those people mainly live in internally displaced camps, located in remote areas scattered around Yemen....

827,000 Yemeni children receive education support thanks to funding from Saudi Arabia

SANA’A, 16 March 2024 – Nearly 827,000 children have received support to access quality education opportunities in Yemen, thanks to a $6.2 million contribution from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief). The programme aimed to ensure access to formal and non-formal learning opportunities for vulnerable girls and boys,…

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Breaking the Cycle: UNICEF's Basic Literacy and Numeracy Programme Transforms Lives in Yemen

The protracted conflict that broke out in Yemen over eight years ago has destroyed the essential social and humanitarian institutions in the country, including the education system, which dealt a blow to children’s learning. Widespread displacement, lack of educational staff and resources, damage to school facilit...

The support to the exams: an important step to ensure a comprehensive education

“ More than 93 thousand students sat for the National Exams in more than 895 centres across 14 Yemeni governorates in Yemen, ” says Dr. Ali Al-Abab, The Vice Minister of Education in Aden. Grade 12 National Exams are critical in determining students’ future. The exams are important because they measure the level o...

Capacity building & strengthening the educational process in Yemen during crises

Parents' councils are a key tool for community participation in education, since they can help in improving the educational process through shared decision-making, accountability, and addressing problems facing the sector. Stressing the importance of this activity, Attas Al-Aidarous, a trainer and director of the...