International Red Cross: More than 2 million Yemeni children are deprived of education.
According to Sputnik, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced that the education sector in Yemen has been severely damaged due to 9 years of war in this country.
The statement of this committee states: The education process in Yemen has slowed down due to armed and violent conflicts and we are witnessing attacks against students and teachers in this country.
In the continuation of this statement, it is emphasized: that 20% of primary and secondary schools in Yemen have been closed and more than 2 million Yemeni children have been deprived of education in schools.
The International Committee of the Red Cross declared: The issue of education is a human issue because in this way, people can be given new life and dignity. The process of education should continue even during armed conflicts and schools and students should be supported.
At the end of last January, the United Nations announced that the education system in Yemen is on the verge of collapse and 2,700 schools in the country have been destroyed or damaged. More than 2,700,000 Yemeni children are also deprived of education.
In its statement, the International Committee of the Red Cross did not mention the Saudi coalition’s attacks against civilian infrastructure and centers, especially schools, in Yemen over the past nine years.
The work of international organizations regarding the Yemen crisis is limited to issuing various statements and in some cases, the aid cuts of these organizations to Yemen are brought up due to American pressures, so informed sources recently reported that the World Food Program a few days before the official organizations in Sana’a wanted to agree with this organization’s decision to reduce its aid in Yemen.
These sources emphasized that the World Food Program’s insistence on signing this agreement by Yemen’s official institutions was opposed by Sana’a because this move includes dubious goals, including diverting public opinion towards those responsible for the reduction of humanitarian aid to Yemen.
They added: The reduction of the aid of this international organization is due to the pressure of the United States and with the aim of intensifying the pains and sufferings of the Yemeni nation. Nearly half a million families, the majority of whom are malnourished women and children, will be denied access to humanitarian aid.
The World Food Program had previously announced that more than 17 million people suffer from lack of food security in Yemen, 2.2 million children in this country, and one million women need help due to malnutrition.
