Assisting the displaced

The stories I wrote during my trip to Haradh and the displacement camps last month have now all been posted on the UNICEF website. The latest one is about volunteers who work in the camps to spread awareness about the need for proper hygiene and sanitation:

Volunteers bring hygiene awareness to displaced communities in Yemen

Last week they posted a story about a school that has taken in nearly 2,000 students from displaced families:

Displaced by conflict, students crowd a village school in northern Yemen

A ceasefire was announced about two weeks ago and is slowly being implemented in the conflict area. As yet, though, the situation is still too unstable to allow people to return and it is still unclear what they would be returning to. There is very little information available about the condition of infrastructure and services.

I read today that in previous rounds of this conflict, only about 40 per cent of the displaced people actually returned home after ceasefires were announced. More than half of them remained displaced, and the current round of fighting has seen more people fleeing their homes than ever before.