Education Needs Immediate and Collaborative Support to Prevent One Whole Generation missing out on Education
YCEA, ACEA, ANDGCE POSITION PAPER ON EDUCATION CRISIS IN YEMEN
While the world celebrated earlier this month both the anniversaries of International Literacy Day, and International Day for Peace, more than 263 million children are currently not in school . Two million children of these are in Yemen alone! This number is likely rise every few minutes.
Yemen is viewed as the worst humanitarian crisis in the region. In 2018, Yemen ranked 4th in the Fragile States Index as “highly alerting”. According to UN OCHA data, twenty-two million (75%) of the population, need humanitarian assistance and protection. In addition to countless casualties and human rights violations, massive population displacement, economic pressure and social infrastructure continue to collapse. Children bear the brunt of the conflict as many boys and girls are killed and injured. In July 2018 alone, at least 21 children were killed and 82 more were injured during attacks in several governorates. Between March 2015 and June 2018 over 2,635 children were recruited by armed groups.
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