Back to work, not school: Yemen’s crisis forces children to drop out
- Taiz, Yemen – It was around the middle of the morning, and children at a nearby school were preparing for their break.
- But 11-year-old Hasnaa Jaber was walking through empty farmland on the outskirts of Taiz city, collecting discarded plastic bottles.
- Hasnaa lives with her impoverished family in an informal settlement for people displaced by the country’s more than decade-long war.
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- Taiz, Yemen – It was around the middle of the morning, and children at a nearby school were preparing for their break.
- But 11-year-old Hasnaa Jaber was walking through empty farmland on the outskirts of Taiz city, collecting discarded plastic bottles.
- Hasnaa lives with her impoverished family in an informal settlement for people displaced by the country’s more than decade-long war.
Sources: Al Jazeera