Audio: Despite enormous challenges, Yemen’s educators return to classroom

Yemen's ongoing civil war, cholera and coronavirus outbreak and a lack of paychecks have failed to deter intrepid educators from opening school doors this week.
A Yemeni health worker sterilizes a classroom in a school amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the capital Sanaa, on August 29, 2020, ahead of the new school year starting in early September. (Photo by Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)
A Yemeni health worker sterilizes a classroom in a school amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the capital Sanaa, on Aug. 29, 2020, ahead of the new school year starting in early September. - MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images
Joe Snell
Joe Snell
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It’s been almost six years since Thekra Al-Ghaffari has received a paycheck. As a vice principal at a secondary school in Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa, Ghaffari is working to keep the school doors open despite enormous challenges.

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