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JEDDAH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center on Monday signed a $15 million deal with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to carry out humanitarian projects in Yemen.

The projects, part of the UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen 2020, will benefit 223, 918 people in Marib, Aden, Lahj, and the Hadramout governorates.

KSRelief Supervisor General Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah and IOM Director General Antonio Vitorino signed the agreement during a virtual meeting.

The agreement aims to provide emergency relief to the displaced people, ensure access to educational services, and increase coordination to help people living in refugee camps to provide them with accommodation.

Last week, the center signed an agreement with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to implement seven projects in Yemen worth $46 million.

It aims to support access for Yemeni children affected by the coronavirus pandemic to educational opportunities through remote learning.

The projects will be carried out in cooperation with Yemen’s Education Ministry and provincial authorities in 20 Yemeni regions.

One of the projects will focus on reducing injuries and deaths caused by malnutrition in children and pregnant women in eight governorates that have high levels of acute malnutrition.

KSRelief also signed deals to provide more than $200 million of assistance to Yemen through the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Health Organization, and the UN Higher Commissioner for Refugees.

Sudan floods

The center continued its relief activities in flood-hit Sudan on Monday.

It provided urgent aid to families whose houses were destroyed by floods in Ed Abu Zeid in Khartoum. The center provided them tents, shelter bags, and food items.