Despite this, unpaid teachers, are “turning up to those classrooms day after day,” he said.įollowing a mission to the north and the south of Yemen, Mr.
“ Huge numbers of people have lost their jobs, and those who are still working quite frequently go unpaid,” he said.ĭisplacement and the destruction of schools have meant classrooms can have as many as 200 children in them.
Elder reiterated the severity of the humanitarian situation in Yemen, where the economy is in a critical condition and GDP has dropped by 40 per cent since 2015. This year alone it has helped 620,000 children access formal and non-formal education and provided vaccines for preventable diseases - including a polio campaign that reached more than five million children. It has also delivered COVID vaccines through the UN-partnered COVAX initiative, provided psychosocial support, mine risk education and direct assistance for the most vulnerable children, and trained and deployed thousands of community health workers. It has supported the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in 4,000 primary health care facilities and 130 therapeutic feeding centres provided emergency cash transfers to 1.5 million households every quarter – benefitting around nine million - and provided safe drinking water to more than five million. Elder said, while emphasizing that the organization has made a positive impact. UNICEF “urgently needs $235 million to continue its lifesaving work” until mid-2022, Mr. There's no way to say this simply without international support, more children, those who bear absolutely no responsibility for this conflict will die,” Mr. “At current funding levels and without an end to the fighting, UNICEF simply cannot reach all these children. Some 1.7 million children are also now internally displaced and 15 million people (more than half of whom are children) do not have access to safe water, sanitation, or hygiene.
Some 400,000 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition, more than two million are out of school and two-thirds of teachers, (more than 170,000), have not received a regular salary for more than four years. of /9EIimhMYAu- UN Geneva October 19, 2021Īccording to UNICEF, more than 11 million children, (four in five) are in need of humanitarian assistance in Yemen. #Yemen is the most difficult place in the world to be a child incredulously, it's getting worse," "Today, we have surpassed 10,000 Yemeni children killed or injured.
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