Education Must Go on; UNICEF Sets Up Mobile Classes for Earthquake-Struck Children in Southeastern Afghanistan

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) announced that the agency has set up about 140 mobile educational classes for up to 4,000 children in the earthquake-struck provinces of Khost and Paktia, in southeastern Afghanistan.

UNICEF Afghanistan stated in a tweet on Sunday, September 11, that the recently established community-based classrooms in the remote areas of Khost province and Paktia province will give almost 4,000 children, both boys, and girls, the chance to learn.

The release from UNICEF states that the establishment of mobile classrooms will help boys and girls to learn and prevent the earthquake from being a barrier to education.

These children reportedly lost their fathers, mothers, and loved ones to the devastating earthquake of June that shook the southeastern provinces of Afghanistan, especially Khost and Paktia, to their core.

Over a thousand people were killed by the earthquake, hundreds more were wounded, and many homeless people were left without a place to live because the earthquake was so powerful that many residential homes were destroyed.

Previously in late August, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that the agency has started the construction of 2,300 “earthquake-resilient” houses for those impacted by earthquakes in Khost and Paktia provinces.

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