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UNESCO Happy Schools project brings joyful learning to classrooms in Yemen
One year ago UNESCO and the nonprofit AlAwn Foundation for Development teamed up to launch what may have appeared to many an unlikely project Happy Schools in Yemen To a country whose education system is stifled by ongoing conflicts and natural hazards focusing on happiness at school could seem like a lofty dream disconnected from the dire reality many students teachers and parents face daily However during the first year of piloting the Happy Schools approach a hopeful truth has begun to take shape School happiness is a powerful engine for quality education and joyful learning in crisis zones and a vehicle to strengthen the stability and wellbeing of school communities