Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would once again like to thank the witnesses for being here. Their testimony is certainly informative for our current study. I also thank them for the work they are doing with vulnerable populations around the world.
We have been discussing education, access to drinking water, and health care with you and with previous witnesses. As one of you pointed out, these are problems that predate the pandemic, but they have been exacerbated by it. Among other things, we have discussed the difficulty in bringing young people to school, especially those who are living in conflict zones. Once again, this situation is exacerbated by the pandemic. As one of you said, interest levels are dropping even among our students owing to distance education. In places where those conditions are non-existent on the ground, the level of disinterest must be even higher.
Before the pandemic, young people were probably already being driven to move toward the labour market or engaged in human trafficking networks. We can assume that the pandemic will have exacerbated all that, as well. Ms. McIsaac was talking about the situation in Mali.
How can we deal with the closing of schools, young people's disinterest in education, the knee-jerk reaction to get a job or the fact that some are caught in human trafficking networks, given the pandemic and even more difficult conditions it brings with it?