{"id":89462,"date":"2020-08-27T19:28:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T11:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=89462"},"modified":"2020-08-27T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T11:28:39","slug":"159-schools-85000-students-affected-by-beiruts-blasts-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=89462","title":{"rendered":"159 schools, 85,000 students affected by Beirut&#8217;s blasts: UNESCO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIRUT, Aug 27 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Director-General Audrey Azoulay said on Thursday that 159 private and public schools as well as 85,000 students were affected by Beirut&#8217;s explosions, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We need approximately US$22 million&nbsp;to rehabilitate destroyed walls in these schools,&#8221; Azoulay said during her tour at the Port of Beirut after her visit to schools in Achrafieh, an area heavily affected by the explosions, al-Jadeed TV channel reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNESCO is keen to support Lebanon&#8217;s education and culture sector since &#8220;a future of a nation can only be built through schools,&#8221; she noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azoulay also emphasised the need to support Lebanon in the field of online education given the outbreak of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have coordinated efforts to identify needs and mobilise funds to start rehabilitation work when sanitary circumstances permit it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two huge explosions rocked Port of Beirut at around 6.10 pm&nbsp;local time on Aug. 4, shaking buildings all over the Lebanese capital, while killing at least 183 and wounding around 6,000 others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Aug 27 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Director-General Audrey Azoulay said on Thursday that 159 private and public schools as well as 85,000 students were affected by Beirut&#8217;s explosions, Xinhua news agency reported. &#8220;We need approximately US$22 million&nbsp;to rehabilitate destroyed walls in these schools,&#8221; Azoulay said during her tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":87991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}