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source name: Vlad Sokhin
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[NAME CHANGED] Mahamat Ali, 17, stands in Melea village, Lake Region, Chad, Wednesday 19 April 2017. Mahamat Ali was abducted by Boko Haram in his hometown in Nigeria when he was just 15-years-old. He was leaving the mosque with his friends when militia surrounded them and took them to an island in the Lake Chad area. The boys’ captors marked out an area where they were forced to fish and farm. If anyone left, they would be shot. Mahamat Ali spent two years enslaved before fighting broke out, at which point he and three of his friends managed to escape. The boys were supported by UNICEF and have been reunited with their families, who had fled to Chad.More than 25 million children between 6 and 15 years old, or 22 per cent of children in that age group, are missing out on school in conflict zones across 22 countries. In response to the education crisis in Chad, UNICEF has since the start of 2017 provided school supplies to more than 58,000 students, distributed teaching materials to more than 760 teachers, and built 151 classrooms, 101 temporary learning spaces, 52 latrines and 7 sports fields. UNICEF Chad also supported the salaries of 327 teachers for the 2016-2017 school year.
To help drive an increased understanding of the challenges children affected and uprooted by conflict face in accessing school, UNICEF advocate Muzoon Almellehan, a 19-year-old Syrian refugee and education activist, travelled to Chad, a country where nearly three times as many girls as boys of primary-age in conflict areas are missing out on education.
- Credits Vlad Sokhin/UNICEF
- Themes Conflict
- Regions Africa West Africa Nigeria