Mr. John Whyte:

That is a good question. As I said earlier, we had about 300 schools before the war serving about 300,000 students. All of those schools have now become shelters. Of those, around 80% have been damaged and many of them have been destroyed completely. They were systematically blown up. They are not serving educational needs any more. Students and children have been without education for two years now and are facing into a third year. UNRWA still has teachers so we are doing online and remote education. Where people have access to the Internet, we have a basic curriculum which we can deliver online and we have been doing that. Where we can, we set up temporary learning shelters which are often very small rooms in some of the schools. Sometimes we have to ask families to vacate those rooms in order to let students in for an hour a day. We do as much face-to-face work as we can. We had about 60,000 children in these temporary learning spaces earlier this year but, because of the deteriorating situation, now that is probably down to 10,000 or 15,000 in a relatively small number of spaces. I mentioned earlier that families are desperate so even some of these learning spaces have had to be taken over by families for accommodation. It is grim. Nevertheless, we are preparing for the new academic year online and we will continue to do face-to-face work as long as we have the practical resources to do so.