Ebtihaj Khan Manager   •   over 7 years ago

Natural Disasters adversely effects school going children

"Children in conflict situations and those living in communities affected by natural disasters are more likely to drop out of school. The conflict in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa between 2008 and2010 led to around 3.35 million people being internally displaced, around 60% of whom were children. The vast majority of those displaced stayed with host communities where in many cases local schools were unable to accommodate the additional influx of children (Jones and Naylor, 2014). In 2010, extensive floods affected 16,400 schools in Pakistan (UNICEF, 2010).The earthquake in 2005 destroyed 3,669 education
institutions in the Hazara Division alone, of which 2,000 have yet to be reconstructed (Dawn, 2015)."