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When Sewing Threads Become Your Shelter: Use your VR goggles

In a muddy yard, Hiba holds a spool of white thread. At first, you might think the little girl is about to make a kite to run after in the camp. You would also imagine her drown in laughter and joy. But in fact, these threads are Hiba’s only “shield” to survive.

Children in Yemen paint a flower mural on the walls of a destroyed school

A drawing workshop was held with children in Southwestern Yemen as part of the Flowers for Children campaign….

Saudi Arabian girl is youngest ever to publish a book series aged 12

Treasure of the Lost Sea, Portal of the Hidden World, and Beyond the Future World are all titles of novels written by the world’s youngest person to publish a book series (female). …

Staggering scale of grave violations against children in conflict

Between 2005 and 2020, the United Nations verified over 266,000 grave violations against children committed by parties to conflict in more than 30 conflict situations across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, UNICEF said today in a new report….

Yemen: Explosive Repaints Of War The Biggest Killed Of Children

 Landmines and unexploded ordnance have been the biggest killers of children in Yemen since a truce was announced in April, Save the Children said today. The uptick in deaths from these weapons is understood to be the result of families moving to previously inaccessible areas following the decrease in hostilities….

Tent Schools Better than Nothing: Displaced Syrian Children Insist on Education

From inside a cloth tent, erected on muddy ground, rise sounds full of life despite a surrounding that calls for nothing but despair. Here, alphabetic letters are written and erased; numbers are added and subtracted; songs resound, and dreams are drawn on notebooks’ pages….