A shortage of schools, teachers in Iraqi camps leads to the fact that the Yezidi children drop out of school
A serious shortage of schools available to families living in displaced persons camps on Iraq's mount Sinjar (Shangal) is hampering the education of hundreds of Yazidi children and leading to a large number of new dropouts.
Poverty is also an important factor, as many families belonging to the Yazidi religious minority do not have money for transport that could take their children to schools located elsewhere.
Salam Hassan, a 16-year-old resident of Sardasht camp, told local news Agency Kirkuk Now that he dropped out of school last year.
“I really want to go back to school, but I can't pay the extra money”" Hasan said
“I can't walk 15 kilometers to get to high school, and I can't pay 35,000 IQD ($29) for transportation.
” In most camps, schools are available only at the primary level.
If the Students of sardasht camp, for example, want to continue their studies after the sixth grade, they must somehow get to the school in sinun district
Iraqi Yazidi have suffered greatly at the hands of Islamic state since its emergence in Iraq in 2014.
The occupation of the city of Shangala, where most Yazidis lived, led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of members of their community, whom the terrorist group considered heretics.
Islamic state militants subjected women and girls to sexual slavery, kidnapped children, forced conversions, executed dozens of men and abused and sold women in areas they controlled in Iraq and Syria.
Murad Alas, principal of an elementary school in Sardasht camp, said that in one elementary school in the camp that serves 400 students, "there are only four teachers who are volunteers."
“With the start of the new school year, 50 students have already dropped out.”
Camp Manager Ali Shabo said - "education is at risk in both camps on mount Shangal," adding that 300 students aged 7 to 16 from both camps have already left school.
Most of them, he said, were from the poorest families.
In November, local officials in Nineveh province, where Shangal is located, announced plans to build 37 new schools to replace those destroyed since 2014.
Shangal was not listed as one of the places where schools were to be built.
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A shortage of schools, teachers in Iraqi camps leads to the fact that the Yezidi children drop out of school
A serious shortage of schools available to families living in displaced persons camps on Iraq's mount Sinjar (Shangal) is hampering the education of hundreds of Yazidi children and leading to a large number of new dropouts.
Poverty is also an important factor, as many families belonging to the Yazidi religious minority do not have money for transport that could take their children to schools located elsewhere.
Salam Hassan, a 16-year-old resident of Sardasht camp, told local news Agency Kirkuk Now that he dropped out of school last year.
“I really want to go back to school, but I can't pay the extra money”" Hasan said
“I can't walk 15 kilometers to get to high school, and I can't pay 35,000 IQD ($29) for transportation.
” In most camps, schools are available only at the primary level.
If the Students of sardasht camp, for example, want to continue their studies after the sixth grade, they must somehow get to the school in sinun district
Iraqi Yazidi have suffered greatly at the hands of Islamic state since its emergence in Iraq in 2014.
The occupation of the city of Shangala, where most Yazidis lived, led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of members of their community, whom the terrorist group considered heretics.
Islamic state militants subjected women and girls to sexual slavery, kidnapped children, forced conversions, executed dozens of men and abused and sold women in areas they controlled in Iraq and Syria.
Murad Alas, principal of an elementary school in Sardasht camp, said that in one elementary school in the camp that serves 400 students, "there are only four teachers who are volunteers."
“With the start of the new school year, 50 students have already dropped out.”
Camp Manager Ali Shabo said - "education is at risk in both camps on mount Shangal," adding that 300 students aged 7 to 16 from both camps have already left school.
Most of them, he said, were from the poorest families.
In November, local officials in Nineveh province, where Shangal is located, announced plans to build 37 new schools to replace those destroyed since 2014.
Shangal was not listed as one of the places where schools were to be built.
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