After the worst floods in the nation’s history destroyed or damaged roughly 27,000 schools, more than 2 million students in Pakistan still cannot attend their classrooms in any way.
Robert Jenkins, the global director of education for UNICEF, remarked following his return from Pakistan’s flood-affected districts, “Almost overnight, millions of Pakistan’s children lost family members, homes, safety, and their education, under the most traumatizing conditions.”
“They are now facing yet another threat to their future because they don’t know when they’ll be allowed to go back to school, and after suffering through among of the world’s longest school closures because to the epidemic.”
In some of the flood-affected districts, more than two months after the disastrous floods swept major portions of Pakistan, school roofs are just now starting to emerge. According to a Thursday news release from UNICEF, it will likely be weeks or possibly months before the flood levels entirely recede.
Schools play a significant role in ensuring that children have access to healthcare, emotional support, and immunisation in addition to serving as places of education. Children are more likely to drop out of school completely, be pushed into child labour and child marriage, and be subjected to various types of exploitation and abuse the longer schools are closed. Numerous of the hardest-hit districts were already among Pakistan’s most vulnerable areas.
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