Mobile classrooms are crossing deserts to reach some of the two million Yemeni children missing school due to the civil war
When the big yellow school bus pulled up on the outskirts of the desert camp, eight-year-old Doaa Yehia could not have been more excited. She had not been to school since her family left their home in northern Yemen last year to escape civil war.
Living in Mafraq refugee camp in the Al Abr district of Hadramawat in the east of the country, Doaa is more than 7 miles (12km) from the nearest school. It is a commute too far and too costly for her parents. So when Edris, as the bus is known, arrived at the camp in January, Doaa was “extremely thrilled”.
