UNICEF saves Iran's arm from the teachers' union strike in its areas of control

English - Thursday 03 November 2022 الساعة 03:18 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) rushed to rescue the terrorist Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, from the strike of the Yemeni Teachers Syndicate, which began last Saturday, in protest against the distortion of the school curriculum.

And educational sources told (Newsmen), that UNICEF paid the teachers’ cash dues for the month of August in the amount of 28,000 Yemeni riyals for each teacher, and that it informed the teachers that the disbursement will continue until November 13th through the agents of Al-Kuraimi Express Company (Al-Kuraimi Bank branches, money exchange shops ) in those areas according to the militia statements for the year 2014.

The sources considered the disbursement of monetary incentives to workers in the educational field, including teachers and administrators, in the militia areas, nearly two years after they stopped clear international complicity, and a new free service provided to Iran’s arm aims to thwart the comprehensive strike called by the Yemeni Teachers Syndicate for its affiliates last Tuesday in protest against the changes that  The group introduced it to the school curricula, which aims to instill its sectarian and terrorist ideas in the minds of the current generation, and its call to pay teachers’ salaries, stop the systematic exclusion and dismissal of educational cadres and replace volunteers.

The sources pointed out that the process of disbursing monetary incentives to teachers coincided with the formation of the Houthi militia leadership in the Ministry of Education and its offices in the governorates and directorates, as field committees to monitor the level of job discipline and threaten teachers with punitive measures that amounted to dismissal in the event of absence.

According to the sources, the disbursement of the financial incentive for the month of August by UNICEF took place despite the complaints of some teachers about their exclusion from the payroll for others belonging to the Houthi militia.

It is assumed that this financial incentive provided by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to teachers will be disbursed according to a disbursement mechanism agreed upon in November 2018  between the Ministry of Education in the legitimate government and the United Nations Children’s Fund “UNICEF”.

However, teachers and educators made it clear that the procedures for handing over financial incentives reveal that they were carried out with a purely political study, and were subject to directives from the coup militia, and were marred by dealing with standards of loyalty and belonging, stressing that the existing procedures are devoid of functional impartiality, as elite teachers working in the educational field were excluded.  who have served education for many years.

The process of excluding dozens of teachers from disbursing their financial dues was a great shock to them, as it was a scandal sponsored by UNICEF, due to its submission and its treatment of political criteria run by the coup militia.