This content was published on March 23, 2022 – 01:43
Tegucigalpa, March 22 (EFE) .- The Government of Honduras and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) agreed this Tuesday to join forces to guarantee education and the vaccine against covid-19 to children enrolled this year in the educational system of the Central American country.
UNICEF’s representative in Honduras, Mark Connolly, met with the Honduran president, Xiomara Castro, to whom he offered “his support” for the government’s policies aimed at favoring children.
“We took advantage of the opportunity to reflect a little on the situation of Honduran children and youth,” said Connolly after the meeting with Castro.
He stressed that recent years “have been very difficult” for children due to the closure of educational centers due to the health crisis caused by covid-19 in Honduras, where the suspension of classes affected thousands of children, mainly the poorest. .
The Unicef diplomat affirmed that the idea is to “involve all the people in the protection of infants in coordination with the Government” of Castro, who assumed the presidency of the country on January 27, replacing Juan Orlando Hernández.
He added that the “loss of two consecutive school years is a serious blow to education, it is as if it were a decade.”
Classes in Honduras were suspended on March 12, 2020, which affected thousands of children who, due to lack of internet, had not attended their virtual classes for the last two years.
The meeting was also attended by the Honduran Ministers of Health, Manuel Matheu; of Education, Daniel Sponda, and the head of the Directorate for Children, Adolescents and Family (Dinaf), Dulce María Villanueva, according to a statement from the Executive.
Sponda said that the Government is “working with goals” and urged parents to continue enrolling their children in the different educational centers.
Until now, according to official figures, around 1.6 million children and young people are enrolled in the educational system of Honduras, a country that intends to have at least two million infants in its classrooms. EFE
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