Where school is a tent: Yemeni kids learn without classrooms, textbooks

Where school is a tent: Yemeni kids learn without classrooms, textbooks

Crammed under a tattered tent on rough wooden benches, Yemeni children are learning Arabic grammar -- lucky to receive an education at all in a country hammered by years of war.The children, some without shoes or textbooks, were born into a divided state where fighting has destroyed nearly 3,000 schools. Those that remain are plagued by power cuts and a lack of running water.Al-Ribat al-Gharbi school near Aden, in Yemen's government-controlled s…

War in Yemen Casts a “Catastrophic” Shadow Over Education Sector

In a tent covered with tattered fabric in the courtyard of a public school in Lahj, near Aden, Yemeni teacher Suad Saleh teaches Arabic grammar to more than 100 students crammed into the suffocating space — most of them without uniforms or textbooks.