Ten million children are being deprived of school by massive floods in West and Central Africa, said the children’s aid organization Save The Children in a press release on Tuesday.
Save The Children calls on donors to support assistance to affected populations. She urges governments and their partners to urgently offer alternatives to children deprived of school and to act to further protect educational establishments from extreme events in the future.
“The unprecedented rains that fell on Nigeria, Mali, Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo have worsened the crisis in the education sector with schools damaged or destroyed, school buildings occupied by displaced families and families far from communities. schools”, said the NGO in a press release. The floods displaced around a million people, she adds.
The 10 million children stuck at home or displaced add to the more than 36 million prevented from going to class by conflict or poverty, including more than 21 million in Nigeria alone, she said, citing figures from the ‘Unesco.
“In addition to seeing their families ravaged and their homes destroyed, children must see their education swallowed up by water,” denounces Vishna Shah-Little, a regional manager of Save The Children cited by the organization.
Since the start of the rainy season, deluges of water have fallen over vast areas, causing floods and floods which have left hundreds of people dead and hundreds of thousands displaced in Chad, Nigeria and Burkina Faso. Faso, Mali, Niger, Guinea and Cameroon.
They have affected millions of people, caused considerable damage to infrastructure and land and increased the risks of disease and food insecurity.
Save the Children emphasizes that weather events are becoming more frequent and intense with climate change.
She urges governments to quickly abandon the use of fossil fuels and subsidies in their favor to limit the increase in temperatures.
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