From the city of Al-Turbah, which is 70 kilometers from the governorate of Taiz, the journey of Al-Jazeera Net began to the southwest, descending and ascending through a rickety road between steep mountains and rugged cliffs, and valleys where rain torrents end up in the Red Sea in Aden Governorate.

It did not occur to us, that our 3-day trip in border regions (southern Yemen) will take us back decades ... to an ancient past separated from our time by the roughness of geography, and decades of Cairo's isolation and deprivation.

Primitive life in an area that is difficult to reach due to the rugged road, so its inhabitants depend on livestock for transportation (the island)

The eloquence of suffering

In the villages of al-Malawi district in Zriqa al-Sham (Lahj governorate), we were greeted by scenes of misery and suffering depicted on the sad and pale faces, a primitive life of people who feed on pain and live on subsistence.

Even the wishes for a better tomorrow, which the people of these areas carried, deprived them of the war years, as well as other human rights usurped from them, with the exception of the Ikhlas School, which consists of 3 semesters.

Nothing connects the inhabitants of these areas to the era of development and technology, except for stories told by the coming lips of the renaissance of a world that the residents of these areas do not know, who lie behind the walls of isolation and oblivion.

Difficult terrain and roads that reflect the suffering and isolation of the people of the region (Al-Jazeera)

A primitive life lived by about 20 thousand people, who are the inhabitants of Zorika al-Sham;

However, Ramzi Al-Zoriki (37 years), whose bitter words were mixed with the joy of the arrival of a foreign media outlet in his region;

To shed light on a forgotten human tragedy.

Zariqi tells Al-Jazeera Net, "Levant and Yemen, like other regions, have been oppressed by geography by placing them on the border strip, and deprived of the most basic necessities of life, and here we live in a time before the September 26 revolution, as educational, health and development services, roads, and clean drinking water are almost non-existent," The only source of drinking is the open hand wells, from which women bring water on their heads and on their donkeys on a grueling day trip.

A school that lacks the most basic elements of education for students in the first grades (the island)

Education is a faltering step

"I will go back to take care of the sheep and livestock." With those words mixed with sorrow, the 11-year-old student Ishtiaq Abdul Khaleq summarized her suffering and her classmates at Al-Ikhlas School when we asked her about her destination after completing her sixth grade study?

Returning to the profession of herding as a major craft for all residents of the region is the only compulsory option available to them.

The lack of preparatory education in the school built during the era of President Ibrahim Al-Hamdi;

Therefore, most of the students in these areas are satisfied with the basic sixth grade certificate, which barely enables them to get rid of their alphabetical illiteracy, while few (male) students who have the ability and will to travel long distances on foot, in search of a school to complete their education in remote areas .

The dwellings of the people of the Ghudra region who live a primitive life (Al-Jazeera)

The same is the case for the 15-year-old student, Ahmed Mazen, who travels long distances, as he leaves his home from 4 am from the village of Al-Ghaddara, crossing about 30 km on the back of his donkey, arriving at the customs area on a grueling journey in search of a right to education that was robbed of him. And his peers.

The children of Zoraiqa al-Sham's daily arduous journey to obtain education is not without human tragedies.

The child Shawqi Saeed (11 years old) was partially paralyzed after falling from a tree, while on his way to school.

Ahmed Mazen travels a long distance on his donkey to the school in the customs area (Al-Jazeera)

Shawky, who ranks first among his colleagues, and aspires to be a teacher in the future;

But he relies on the help of his sister, Ashwaq, who is older than him, and enjoys the same amount of ingenuity, and she spoke with us bitterly about the living situation of her family and her sick father, who is in the house without work, and her sister sit-in, who is nine years old, who is blind and has broken blood, and they do not find the treatment value to save her .

Mukhtar Abd al-Rab, the teacher and director of the Al-Ikhlas School in the Al-Maliwi region, says that there is no real education in the region, even with its minimum limits, and the school lacks the most basic elements, and has 3 teachers who do not receive salaries from the state, which made the dropout rate exceed 80%.

Abd al-Rab asserts to Al-Jazeera Net, "Our appeal to government agencies has not stopped;

A model of disability prevalent in the regions of Zriqa, due to hereditary diseases (Al-Jazeera)

Absent health care

Although there are 4 health units in Zeraiqa al-Sham;

However, these facilities lack qualified medical staff and the necessary medical supplies, so those with sick cases are forced to travel tens of kilometers to Khalifa Bin Hamad Hospital in Al-Turbah City to treat their patients, and some of them die on the road before reaching the hospital due to the rugged road.

Fever diseases, epidemics, severe malnutrition, and high mortality among pregnant mothers and children are common in these areas.

Which heralds a humanitarian catastrophe that no one cares about.

An old woman looks with regret at her lands that were swept away by floods (Al-Jazeera)

We have also noticed an abnormally high incidence of mentally ill patients among the population. In Al-Durahe only, there are 36 mentally ill and mentally ill persons, 10 of whom are teachers, in light of the absence of any facility or specialist doctor to treat these cases.

We spent 3 days traveling between valleys and mountains that were not visited by the sun, except for a few hours of the day.

Villages, there are no differences between them except in their names and the number of dilapidated houses.