Returning children to school is a concern for displaced families and communities close to the conflict fronts in Yemen. As in Jabal Habashi district, Taiz governorate, which has received a large wave of displacement from the surrounding districts that are in conflict, causing living and psychological damage to hundreds of families and children who lost their homes and schools and witnessed the ravages of war, until the "Educational Interventions among the most affected IDPs and host communities project, implemented by Tamdeen Youth Foundation, with the support of Yemen Humanitarian Fund.

The project was implemented from January 2022 to January 2023 to mitigate the effects of the conflict, and enable children to obtain their right to education, and to attend schools in safe and healthy environments.

It rehabilitated 5 schools in Jabal Habashi district (Al Tasheeh, Al Noor, Al Wahda, Al Sabaeen, and Al Salam) to restore hope to displaced conflict-affected families in educating their children and pursuing their dreams and future.

The project also provided double school seats, school bags with stationery items for 1,168 students, recreational bags and toys for students in the five schools, as well as incentives for teachers trained to provide active learning and psychological support to displaced children, motivating them to attend their classrooms and continue their education.

The child, Lina Saif Farea Nasser, has now attended Al Wahda School in Jabal Habashi. In the early weeks of 2022-2023, Lena didn't attend school because of her family's inability to enroll her in the first grade and their inability to provide the school bag and stationery items that were provided by the project. Teachers were able to integrate her with her classmates, as she is from the marginalized, the poorest and most affected by the war.                                        

Lina received a school bag, pens and notebooks and shared with her peers to play with the recreational kits provided by the project.

"School is wonderful. I am now in the first grade. I go to school every day. I study and learn to be a doctor in the future," Lina says.

Increasing Girls’ Enrollment in Education

The project's interventions succeeded in bringing hundreds of students back to the classroom. It enabled 2,831 boys and 2,527 girls to receive quality education in the five schools.

Mr. Mahmoud Mohammed Ghalib, Director of Al Sabaeen School in Wadi Bani Khawlan sub-district, Jabal Habashi, says: "The recreational kits provided by the project to the school were the reason for attracting students to school and reducing their absence from it."

The director of Al Noor School in Bani Bukary sub-district, Jabal Habashi, Mr. Hussein Bajash, also confirmed that by saying: "The recreational and school bags have contributed to motivating children to learn, especially from the first grade to the third grade. Hygiene kits also enhanced the school's healthy environment. We were able to provide first aid after we had to ambulance sick cases and injury accidents to remote areas."

Bajash thanks Yemen Humanitarian Fund (HYF) and Tamdeen Youth Foundation (TYF) for reviving the educational process in the region.

"The project was implemented according to an integrated system that enabled the school to achieve better educational outcomes for children."