JEDDAH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) is continuing its relentless humanitarian efforts to relieve the suffering of the Yemeni people in Hodeidah, affected by the humanitarian crisis caused by the Houthi militia.
During the period from Jun. 15 till Sept. 4, the center provided a number of services to citizens and those displaced, through its various relief and humanitarian programs.
The programs consisted of 11,279 food baskets that benefited 67,674 individuals, 21,621 kilograms of dates that reached 129,726 people.
The center also distributed various accommodation materials, including 70 tents that aided 420 people, 1,620 blankets that were distributed to 1,620 people, and 140 rugs that benefited 420 people.
Over the past few months, the center also distributed 1,050 bags containing basic materials that helped 7,350 people, and 2,687 bags containing emergency items that benefiting 18.809 thousand individuals.;
The center announced that a total of 227,349 affected or displaced Yemenis from Hodeidah benefited from the aid.
The center is currently working on a project to improve water supply and environmental sanitation and nutrition and to set up mobile clinics to provide health care to the people of the governorate.
Yemen in general and the areas most in need in coordination with the offices of the United Nations humanitarian organizations and international organizations and the Yemeni government represented by the High Committee for Relief, and continuation of the humanitarian role carried out by the Kingdom through the Center for all governorates of Yemen without discrimination.
The projects fall in line with the directives of Saudi King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to direct aid to Yemen, particularly the areas most in need, in coordination with UN humanitarian bodies, international organizations and the Yemeni government, represented by the High Committee for Relief, to continue the Kingdom’s humanitarian role in indiscriminately aiding the Yemeni people via the center.
In addition to the Hodeidah projects, KSRelief has launched a sewing course for the families of orphans as part of its “handcrafts” project that the center is running in five provinces in Yemen.
Trainee Zeinab Omar was delighted with the training that the sewing course provided and said: “We did not have experience of using sewing machines but this course taught us a number of skills in this field.”
Another trainee, Huda Ahmed, pointed out that the course will benefit a number of trainees who will learn new skills, and these skills will help them to be independent in the future.
One of the course’s trainers, Samiha Ali, said there is a lot of interaction among trainees and they compete to learn basic skills.
She added that the trainees are very creative and eager to learn about the various stages of sewing such as cutting and tailoring and hemming garments.
KSRelief continues relief efforts in Hodeidah, Yemen
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