The United Arab Emirates, through its humanitarian arm (UAE Red Crescent), has provided 12 tons of nutritional supplements to hospitals in Taiz governorate in Yemen to address acute malnutrition among women and children.
The UAE support, which has been handed over to the Taiz Governorate Public Health Office, is aimed at treating acute malnutrition among mothers and children who come to the province's hospitals for medical care.
Dr. Ali Saeed, deputy director of the health office in Al-Muzaffar Directorate, said that these supplements will contribute to raising the performance of medical services in hospitals for mothers and sick children who suffer from health problems, including malnutrition.
He said that a convoy of these supplements was carried to hospitals in Taiz in general, and Al-Wafa Center for Motherhood and Childhood in particular, which receives hundreds of cases of malnutrition per day, especially among those who are unable.
He pointed out that malnutrition has spread recently among dozens of the poorest families, and that the intervention of the UAE convoy will work to alleviate the suffering of the injured, and will push towards the stability of relief and health conditions in the province.
Ibrahim al-Jabri, the representative of the UAE Red Crescent, said that the convoy aims to increase the performance of specialized hospitals for mothers and children, which contributes to providing medical care and addressing the health problems, especially malnutrition.
For their part, the patients appreciated the support provided by the UAE to alleviate their suffering and contribute to stabilizing the health conditions of the population of the province in general.
For months, the UAE Red Crescent has been delivering food supplement convoys to government hospitals, scattered in the most affected liberated areas of Yemen, to treat basic nutritional deficiencies in women and children.
In the same context, the General Supervisor of the Saudi Program for the Development and Reconstruction of Yemen, Ambassador Mohammed bin Said Al Jaber, responded to the appeals of the people of Taiz countryside to build a school, bringing their children under one roof.
Ambassador Al Jaber said that in line with the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to support the Yemeni people in all fields, the program will work with the Yemeni government to establish a school for the people of Taiz countryside to complement the various development program initiatives. In all Yemeni governorates.
This comes after the open courtyards and trees remained in the upper mountain of Sabr, which is 3200 kilometers above sea level, into classrooms for 300 students, coinciding with the start of the new academic year 2019-2020.
Yemeni student Majd Adel said that this year he went up to the fifth stage. He and his classmates, after the start of the new school year, took the initiative to buy a "blackboard" from the daily expenses they receive from their families living in four small villages scattered above Jabal Sabr.
He said that he comes from a long distance, in order to receive the curriculum scheduled for him, despite the severity of cold, and is keen to come early to the school yard, which was hosting the activity of the morning queue, and since the destruction of open classes for nine educational stages.
The shelling of Iranian-backed al-Houthi militias destroyed large parts of the only school in the village of Kashar, prompting school teachers to provide courses in the sun to spare young people and children the catastrophe of denial of education.
Tawfiq al-Sabri, one of the teachers, said the school offers nine stages of education for students who are going through rough and difficult roads with great determination and determination, despite the lack of a suitable learning environment and qualified seats.
He explained that the rehabilitation of the school stalled a few months after the intervention of the concerned authorities to do so, which led professors to spread the land to teach students, calling on the organizations and authorities concerned to intervene to complete the construction of the building, so that education in the open does not reflect negatively on the psychology of students, and deprives them from continuing school.
He pointed out that since the coup against the state institutions, the Houthi terrorist militias have directed their destructive machinery directly towards the educational process, bombed and booby-trapped schools, or turned them into military barracks, in terrorism targeting future generations.
At least 2,600 schools were destroyed, and artillery and missile shelling of Iranian-backed Houthi militias was reported, according to official Yemeni reports.
- Intervention of the UAE convoy will serve to ease
The suffering of the injured, will push towards the stability of the situation
Relief and health in the province.