KATHMANDU - The Nepal earthquake has left almost a million children without classrooms, the UN children's agency said Thursday, calling for urgent action to repair damaged schools and set up temporary learning spaces.
Unicef said almost 24,000 classrooms were damaged or destroyed in the 7.8-magnitude quake that hit the country on April 25 and many suffered further damage in the aftershocks that have followed.
"Almost one million children who were enrolled in school before the earthquake could now find they have no school building to return to," said Tomoo Hozumi, Unicef's representative in Nepal.