The United Arab Emirates recorded a clear humanitarian, service and development footprint in Yemen during the year 2018, which witnessed the distribution of tens of thousands of food and shelter aid to the various liberated areas in Yemen and the implementation of service and development projects in the sectors of education, health, social affairs, water and electricity , Which benefited all age groups from various social strata, with UAE assistance to Yemen reaching AED 7.838 billion, of which AED 1.840 billion was allocated to support the United Nations Humanitarian Response Plan in Yemen for 2018.

As the world's largest direct donor of emergency humanitarian assistance to the world, the UAE ranked first among the Yemeni people in 2018 and was second only to Saudi Arabia as the second largest donor to support the UN humanitarian plan in Yemen for the same year.

During the year, Yemen witnessed Emirati interest in Yemeni children, youth organizing collective weddings, families with families, families of martyrs, poor families, needy people with special needs, and students of schools and colleges in Yemeni universities who all received support from the Red Crescent for many commemorative activities and projects. .

The UAE today highlighted the UAE's most important efforts in Yemen during Zayed's year:

Humanitarian aid

The United Arab Emirates, with the start of the year of Zayed, intensified its humanitarian projects to provide relief to those in need and to distribute food, medical and shelter aid to poor and needy families, families of martyrs and people with special needs, members of the educational sector and other Yemeni people.

Through the Red Crescent, its humanitarian arm in Yemen, the UAE has expanded its humanitarian operations by expanding the liberated area of ​​the Iranian Houthi militia. It has played a major role in providing relief to thousands of Yemeni families who lack their daily lives because of the difficult living and economic conditions Yemen has experienced Currency and price hikes, due to currency speculation by the militia leadership.

As usual, the Red Crescent was one of the first organizations to evade the liberated areas, whether in the West Coast or other areas, while continuing to distribute food and shelter aid to the liberated areas during the past years.

The Red Crescent relief teams have overcome the harsh geographical nature of many areas of Yemen and have succeeded in delivering aid to mountain areas.

It carried out an airlift of food aid to hundreds of besieged families, in Durahemi and the West Coast.

Education

The education sector in Yemen, during the year of Zayed, is a priority for the UAE, represented by its humanitarian arm, the Red Crescent Authority.

The UAE and Saudi Arabia donated a total of US $ 70 million (about 256 million dirhams) to support Yemeni teachers through UNICEF. The UAE's contribution of US $ 35 million will pay 135,000 teachers for 10 months.

The United Arab Emirates, in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), contributed AED 18 million to AED 400,000 to WFP's School Feeding Program. The UAE's assistance to Hodeidah Governorate, from 20 June to 6 December 2018, Billion and 183 million dirhams.

health sector

During the year 2018, the health sector in Yemen received unlimited support from the UAE, including the rehabilitation and rehabilitation of a number of hospitals and centers, and the provision of other medicines and medical supplies to improve the health services provided to citizens.

The UAE has signed a cooperation agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) to support emergency life care and maternal and newborn care in Mukalla, Yemen's Hadramout governorate, to ensure access to essential and life-saving emergency services for displaced people and host communities.

Under the cooperation agreement, the UAE government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, is providing the World Health Organization with $ 800,000 to implement this humanitarian project in Yemen, which the UAE regards as part of its response to the humanitarian situation in Yemen.

Since 2015, the UAE has allocated AED 845 million of its assistance to support the health sector in Yemen and alleviate the shortage of health services, medicines and medical supplies. It has contributed to the rehabilitation and maintenance of 55 hospitals and health centers in a number of Yemeni areas, , And campaigns to vaccinate 488,000 children against polio and measles.

Development projects

In the electricity sector, the UAE, during the year Zayed, provided a power plant with capacity of 120 MW, to support and enhance the electricity of the temporary capital Aden, at a cost of $ 100 million (about 367 million dirhams).

The plant, provided by the Sheikh Khalifa Foundation for Humanitarian Works, includes one of the world's largest generators, to be installed in the Al-Hasawah district of Aden.

In the water sector, the UAE Red Crescent Authority has established two integrated water pumping units, which operate in solar power for the Yashbum and Al-Sufil districts of the Upper Egypt governorate of Shabwa, benefiting about 7,000 people.

The Commission also began operating an artesian well in the Wadi Jabba field at the Directorate of Qaf al-Awamar in the Hadramout Desert, as part of the Commission's project to dig 18 artesian wells in Hadramout.

The UAE Red Crescent Authority also inaugurated the project of establishing an integrated pumping unit in the Jul Al-Rida area in the Meif'a district of Shabwa governorate, benefiting about 2000 people.

The Authority also provided water to more than 25,000 Yemenis from the city of Al-Nour in Taiz governorate by completing the project of digging a well in the city with a depth of 215 meters, to enter the service and pump more than 14 thousand cubic meters per hour. And relief, which are seeking the needs of the Yemeni citizen.

The Commission, in Abyan, inaugurated the water project in the Directorate of Lauder, which consists of two phases: the first involves the drilling, construction and processing of four artesian wells and four chambers of pumps, noting that these artesian wells serve more than 35,000 children of Lauder, Because of the scarcity of water in their areas.

The second stage, which is currently being implemented, includes the construction of a reservoir and another conversion tank, the capacity of the reservoir is 250 cubic meters, in addition to assembly lines between the wells, and will benefit more than 30 thousand people.

The project was inaugurated in Lahj Governorate by the Lajeen Water Project, which was funded by the Authority within the framework of the "Zayed Zayed" projects. It includes drilling a well 200 meters deep and supplying it with solar panels and constructing a transfer tank. The project will serve more than 3,000 families, Parties, network extension up to 10 kilometers.

The UAE allocated 1.72 billion dirhams (US $ 467.9 million) to support the power generation and supply sector, charging the operational costs for generating electricity, providing power supply services, rebuilding and maintaining power plants, and fueling power plants and generators to generate the energy needed to run Hospitals, schools and public buildings throughout Yemen.

The Yemeni Child

During the year Zayed, the UAE paid great attention to the Yemeni child, embodying a number of projects and events that coincided with World Children's Day, which falls on 20 November.

Among the most important projects, the representative of the UAE Red Crescent, Saeed Al Ali, laid the foundation stone for the project of rehabilitating the Musawat library for children in Aden, which includes the rehabilitation of the library in all its sections and furnishing it with the required furniture and children's books.

The Authority participated in the celebration of International Children's Day with the support of the celebration of 100 children from all walks of life in all governorates of Aden.

On the occasion of International Day of Down Syndrome, which falls on 21 March each year, the organization organized an artistic concert for Down Syndrome children, with the participation of 27 children with Down's syndrome in Aden.

Group weddings

As part of its support to young people, during the year Zayed launched a collective wedding program, in line with the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to benefit 2,400 young men and women in eight Yemeni governorates.

This initiative comes within the framework of the UAE's response to the requirements of the Yemeni arena for support and support in all fields in the year of Zayed, to ease the burden of marriage costs on Yemeni youth, to facilitate its ways and reduce the extravagance and extravagance in social events and to promote the values ​​of solidarity and compassion among Yemeni society.

These weddings, which began in Aden and moved on to Socotra, Hadhramout, Taiz, Abyan, Dhala, Lahj, Shabwa and Makhayah, contributed to the drawing of joy on the faces of Yemeni citizens and to offer them a helping hand.

A human look

During the year, the UAE did not neglect the families of the martyrs and the families of the martyrs, and included them in their list of concerns that included different groups of society. However, these groups had special interest in the humanitarian role of the UAE in Yemen.

During the year 2018, the UAE Red Crescent Society organized the festival of the "people of concern" in Aden and Abyan, on the occasion of Eid al-Adha and in the framework of the year 2018.

The festival, which targeted deaf, mute and wounded people from the demining teams and a number of blind people, included the establishment of kiosks to sell the products of families with special needs, through "self-owners" to sell them themselves and return their revenues to them.

The festival also included organizing a recreational trip, which included a number of entertainment games, gifts, sweets and drinks, which brought happiness to the hearts of children and their parents. The Association also participated in the Society for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Disabled in Shabwa.

The Authority has completed the signing of the leasing contracts for the 1000 Bab Rizk project in the first phase, which will benefit a number of families of the martyrs and the owners of the Directorate of Mansoura in Aden, which includes the leasing of 28 farms of vegetables and fish in the market of Cabuta, and 30 contracts to rent a fish mattress in Mansoura market.

And inaugurated the vegetable market and the fish market, which will be the project of 1000 Bab Rizk, in Aden, after the rehabilitation of an integrated, to be ready for beneficiaries from the families of martyrs and families of concern.

The Commission also inaugurated the Amal sewing factory for families of martyrs and families, which was supplied by about 50 sewing machines dedicated to the female component of the families of the martyrs and families.

The UAE Red Crescent Society distributed seven tons of foodstuffs and basic commodities to Yemeni citizens of the Al-Diaa Association for the Blind in Al-Mukalla Directorate in Hadramout Governorate.

More than 1,000 stakeholders benefited from the organization's distributions, aimed at alleviating their suffering and their families, as a result of the worsening living conditions and the deteriorating economic situation caused by the pro-Iranian Houthi militias.

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