rehabilitation and expansion with additional classrooms with administrative and service annexes, in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration.
The First Undersecretary of Aden Governorate, Muhammad Nasr Shazly, said that the rehabilitation of schools would accommodate the largest number of students and push the education process forward, praising the King Salman Relief Center’s support for the educational sector in Yemen.
Meanwhile, Director of the Office of the Ministry of Education in Aden, Abdul Raqib Al-Raqeebi, explained that the opening included the Basaheb schools in the Tawahi district, the meat school in the Dar Saad district, in addition to Bir Fadl and Nour Al-Din Qasim schools in the Mansoura district, noting that the schools accommodate about 1,800 seats, which provides an opportunity for children, especially Displaced persons from enrolling in education.
IOM Transition and Recovery Unit Head Firas Badiri said that students who started the new semester in the renovated schools can now learn in improved spaces that allow them to continue their education, after many of these students have been out of school for many years due to the crisis, while he was studying Others are in crowded classrooms due to lack of space.
The King Salman Relief Center worked to fund a project to support the continuity of educational services and the recovery of the education sector from the effects of the crisis and displacement, which includes the rehabilitation and expansion of schools through the International Organization for Migration, including 15 schools in the governorates of Aden, Lahj and Hadramout, in partnership with the Ministry of Education.
The center aims, through its efforts in support of education in Yemen affected by the humanitarian crisis, to increase the student capacity of the local community, as well as to accommodate displaced students in the targeted Yemeni governorates within the project to support educational services.
