Similar to Al-Houthi, Brotherhood summer centers in the countryside of Taiz target children and adolescents

English - Tuesday 24 May 2022 الساعة 08:50 am
Taiz, NewsYemen, special:


Documents and sources for NewsYemen revealed the Brotherhood's preparations to inaugurate summer centers in the liberated areas of Taiz, in imitation of what the Houthi group is doing.

According to an official document, the director of the Education Office in Taiz Governorate, the Brotherhood leader, Abdel-Waseh Shaddad, informed the directors of the education offices and directorates of the districts that it was decided to establish summer centers in all private and government schools in the liberated districts.

Shaddad said that this aims to "invest the students' time during the summer vacation in what is beneficial in their religious and worldly matters."


Shaddad called on the directors of directorates and education offices to direct the directors of public and private schools to establish these centers, noting that this comes in the interest of "our sons and daughters, male and female students, in deepening religious values and preserving national identity."

Educational sources in Taiz explained that the announcement by the Education Office in Taiz about the establishment of summer centers for students comes without an official direction by the Ministry of Education in Aden to establish summer centers for students in the liberated governorates.

Considering that this raises suspicions about the motives of the Education Office in Taiz to unilaterally announce the establishment of summer centers in the governorate, and makes it a copy of the centers that the Houthi group launches in its areas of control every year to target the minds of children and adolescents with its racist ideas.

The sources pointed out what was mentioned in Shaddad's circular that the centers' goal is to "deepen religious values and preserve national identity," which are the same terms used by the Houthi group about the summer centers.

The sources pointed out that youth institutions run by Brotherhood members in the countryside of Taiz announced the establishment of summer courses in government schools, despite the announcement by the Director of the Education Office of the establishment of summer centers in them, which reveals the reality of these centers and the Brotherhood’s attempt to harness them for their benefit.

Warning of the danger of being silent about the establishment of summer centers outside the supervision of the ministry in Aden to serve the goals of religious groups in a governorate with the highest population density, which facilitates the recruitment of at least 50,000 children and adolescents in these centers.