Feature: Amid ruins, Yemeni children trace letters of hope

TAIZ, Yemen, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Under the shade of a nearly leafless tree in Yemen's battered Taiz province, a group of children huddle shoulder to shoulder. They watch intently as their teacher balances a blackened wooden board on a stack of stones.

There are no walls, no desks, no books. Just the board, the dust, the children's voices lifting in unison.

Chalk in hand, Mujib Al-Sabri traces each letter