Comments on: Photo Essay: The Akhdam of Yemen

By: AMRULAH

AMRULAH — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:22:56 +0000

Inorder to integrate the chocolat Yemeni faces with mainstream sociaty the Goverment of Yemen and NGOs have to do alote.

By: Matthew C. Kriner

Matthew C. Kriner — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:32:02 +0000

Such ideas is a COOL. I read this post carefully and like it so much. nice 2 see this and hope for more ^_^

By: Debra

Debra — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:47:17 +0000

Thankyou so much for educating me as to the plight of these incredibly challenged people. It makes me feel utterly ashamed for ever complaining about issues in my life. The images you have provided have left an imprint on my heart which I will now share with my children.
Thankyou

By: Lord Kavi

Lord Kavi — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:51:27 +0000

They have bad living conditions but I can see Life, Love, Happiness and Joy in these pictures! They are living their life happily and enduring it!

By: Esra'a

Esra'a — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:48:21 +0000

Thanks for the informative comments!

By: Elinor (Iran)

Elinor (Iran) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:10:16 +0000

Esra’a
Beautiful pictures, beautiful faces, I loved the pictures. Bad conditions they live in, but look at those beautiful faces beautiful eyes. Who knows, maybe one day one of these little kids will be the president of his country
The cast system unfortunately has made its way to the very modern time, and that shows how underdeveloped the countries could be, even the very developed ones.
In Iranian Baluchistan, similar to Yemen, there had been a cast system, and Akhdam were called Gholaman, and the strange thing is that the ones who considered themselves better were poor as well.
After the revolution, thanks to smuggling , in the provinces by the borders, many people became wealthier than how they lived before, including the Baluchis I was taling about. Now they have their own Cars and their mud huts changed to accual buildings with Ac and and sure, the entertainment set
They deserve it, and I am not worried about smuggling, it is just when there is no other way to privide. I hope one day we see our countries invest in the Treasury of their people, these sparkling eyes, it is not helping them, it is helping the country to prosper via its own children. What is better than that for a country?

By: Kawthar (UAE)

Kawthar (UAE) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:06:57 +0000

I came across an interesting report relating to the Akhdam in IRIN

While the Akhdam have been traditionally scorned by their more conventional Yemeni counterparts, they have also largely been prevented from integrating into official aspects of society due to their economic situation fuelled by discrimination, they say. Few of the community’s young people, for example, are enrolled in school. “Not one of these children knows where the school is,” said the 50-year-old al-Haymee, pointing to a group of Akhdam children playing among worn out tires. “When we go to the school to enrol them, administrators tell us that there’s no room.”