The UAE Red Crescent Authority distributed thousands of relief baskets in Yemen during the second week of Tolerance 2019. Seven new projects in the field of basic and secondary education were also launched in the western coast of Yemen as part of a package of projects covering the various humanitarian, service, development and economic fields in the villages and cities of Taiz and Al- Located along the west coast, and in all liberated governorates of Yemen.
The new education projects included the rehabilitation, furnishing and equipping of schools: Al Wahda in Al-Seimen, Tareq Bin Ziyad in Al-Shajira, Al-Fajr in Taif, Al-Itihad in Mawza, Al Fateh in Qataba, Ali Bin Al Fakhr in Al Muteenah and Al-Khair in Mochaj.
The United Arab Emirates Red Crescent Authority (RCRC) conducted food and relief convoys to remote areas, nomadic places and dialysis centers in a number of Shabwa governorate districts, including the Rehabilitation and Care Center for the Disabled and the Oncology Unit.
The agency distributed food aid to students of literacy in the Hadar district in Hadramout, which suffers from difficult economic conditions, including 100 baskets benefiting 500 students, and distributed 1000 food baskets to a number of families in the Directorate of Doan benefited from 5000 poor families.
The number of food baskets distributed since the beginning of the year of tolerance 2019 amounted to 2,730 food baskets targeting 13,650 needy families in Hadramout Governorate.
In a related context, the Shabwa Youth Forum (3 + 1) launched yesterday a mobile clinic to combat dengue fever, measles and a dandruff campaign to combat dengue fever, with the support and funding of the UAE Red Crescent Society and in coordination with the Shabwa Health and Population Office.
The three-day spraying campaign is aimed at controlling mosquitoes and insect vectors, including dengue fever, in all residential districts of Zalimin district and Rama district of Lower Marrakah governorate, accompanied by a mobile clinic for free examination of suspected cases and free dispensing of medicines.
The UAE Red Crescent Society opened the Al Ittihad Basic Secondary School for Boys in the center of the distribution center in the province of Taiz after rehabilitation, furnishing and equipping. The Director of Humanitarian Affairs of the UAE Red Crescent in Yemen, Mohammed Al Junaibi, said that the school is part of the Authority's projects in various sectors to complete Normalization of life and improvement of the level of services provided to the people of Taiz and all the liberated regions and governorates of Yemen, pointing out that the school consists of eight classrooms and their accessories, and accommodate 700 students, and allow the return of about 40 teachers and schools for their work.