From beneath the piles of destruction and devastation, a ray of hope emerges, and light shines to fill the earth with light, paints a beautiful dream for a generation looking for its future amid war.
Khawla school in Dahyan district, Sa'ada governorate was completely destroyed after being bombed by planes at the beginning of the war, thin to displaced students and teachers in search of any place that could bring them together to resume some of their lessons and many of them dropped out of school.
It is war, and nothing else. It has deprived millions of Yemeni children of their education, and it has also demolished thousands of their schools, and migration with their teachers to a better reality and perhaps an unknown future remains uncertain.
But a glimmer of light loomed over the dark horizon, and the flag of hope returned to flutter again on the flagpole of Khawla school in the district of Dahyan, Sa'ada governorate, unleashing our boys and girls to challenge the difficulties and resume their scientific race competitions and armed with determination, pen and book.
The National Foundation for Development and Humanitarian Response (NFDHR) intervened through the implementation of the Emergency Response Project for Education Services in Sa'ada and Al-Jawf governorates, funded by the Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF).
The Foundation targeted the establishment of 24 classrooms, including 18 classrooms in six schools in Sa'ada and 3 schools in Al-Matun district, Al-Jawf Governorate, in addition to the distribution of school bags for 12 thousand students in 29 schools in the two governorates.
Khawla School in Dahyan District was one of the targeted schools of the project, to start the wheel of construction and within less than two months were completed construction and finishing work for three classrooms to coincide with the opening of the academic year 2019-2020.
In Khawla School, 318 students study in basic education.
The foundation not only built the building, but also supported the school with 76 new school disks, provided the school with recreational bags and encouraged children to attend school by distributing school bags with their supplies.
Parents were delighted during the school's opening on September 18, 2019.They were prepared for a symbolic celebration with the school administration during the opening, as an expression of their keenness to enroll their children in education, Children did not hide their happiness on their first school day in their new school to chant national songs and play in The new school yard, and they said we are going to learn no matter how is the situation, the next is the most beautiful and our future will be bright.
