YEMEN CONFLICT IDP CHILDREN

epa08084068 Displaced children queue to get balloons provided by Mona Relief Yemen at a camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the northern province of Amran, Yemen, 19 December 2019 (issued 20 December 2019). Mona Relief Yemen has provided psychosocial support to displaced children at the Amran IDPs camp to help them overcome the scares of the war, encouraging parents to reintegrate their children into school, especially girls. An estimated 4.1 million school-age Yemeni children need assistance to continue their education after nearly five years of escalating fighting between Yemen's Saudi-backed government and the Houthis. EPA/YAHYA ARHAB