The problems of education in Hays have been going on for two years. Alternative schools are no longer useful
English - Sunday 06 October 2019 الساعة 09:08 am
Hays – NewsYemen.net
At the start of the new school year, students in Hais district, south of Hodeidah province, complain that classes have been suspended for the second year in a row, because some of their schools have become barracks for the Houthi militia, which is on the line of fire between the joint resistance forces and the Houthis.
According to an educational source, this year, comes with greater difficulties facing the educational process, as a result of the return of many of the people who were displaced at the beginning of the clashes within the Directorate, where the alternatives to schools in the previous year, are some mosques, houses and shops, and this is no longer possible, where the owners of these houses and shops refused to rent them, as alternative schools.
The source pointed out that there are 250 female students who were registered in those schools where teaching is no longer possible, in addition to 654 male students.
There are also many schools that have become military barracks, and five schools located in the line of fire, namely: Qaqaa, Hafsa, and July 7, and Khawla bint Al-Azwar, and Al-Tadhamun school.
We met one of the children in the city, who told us that he was currently working in the qat market, after he stopped studying at his militia-occupied school, and that he was studying in the afternoon in a mosque.
Residents of Hays District appealed to the local authority in Hodeidah governorate and the brothers of the Arab Coalition and international organizations, to work to provide alternatives to the suspended schools, in order to help their children to continue their education.
