There are quite a few conflict zones in the world today where everyday civilians are being caught in the crossfire, their villages are devastated due to bombing and homes are reduced to rubble. There is no normalcy and hence no regular source of livelihood and income. People live in rehabilitation and refugee camps. More than adults it’s the children who are getting worst affected by these continuing conflicts. Each child has a right to education and safe future but we live in a world where schools and hospitals are bombed too. Imagine future of scores of young children in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, parts of Africa, Burma, Sri Lanka, Middle East – the list is endless. What will happen to these children of war?

In Gaza very young children walk past rubble from their makeshift home to their makeshift school. Their parents are pinning hope on education for a better future. But situation is so very grim that they know their schooling can get interrupted by yet another military operation. Last January a school in Gaza which was run by United Nations was bombed by Israel. Classrooms have been reconstructed and painted but violence and destruction have become part of painful memories of these growing up children.

What affect these wars, violence and killing have on young minds is beyond comprehension. Unfortunately a whole generation is being denied their basic right to normal life, education and future and what about seeds of discontent being sowed in young impressionable minds?

Via BBC