The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has signed several agreements aimed at enhancing the educational and medical sectors across various Yemeni governorates, benefiting over 13,000 people.
In the education sector, the Center partnered with a civil society organization to implement the third phase of the Back to School Project in Al-Mukha district (Taiz governorate), Thamud district (Hadramaut governorate), as well as in Shabwah, Abyan, and Lahj governorates, reaching approximately 6,000 individuals.
Assistant Supervisor General of Operations and Programs at KSrelief Engineer Ahmed Al Baiz signed the agreement on the sidelines of the International Conference on Conjoined Twins in Riyadh.
The agreement entails providing 60 fully equipped classrooms and outfitting 10 schools to create a suitable learning environment for students, and distributing 6,000 school uniforms and bags containing school supplies. Furthermore, job opportunities will be created for low-income families (beneficiaries of previous training and empowerment projects) by having them make school bags and uniforms.
This initiative is part of the Kingdom's ongoing relief and humanitarian efforts through KSrelief to support the safety and continuity of education while addressing student dropout rates in the targeted regions of Yemen. In the medical sector, KSrelief has partnered with the International Wars and Disasters Victims' Protection Association (IRVD) to establish a prosthetic and rehabilitation center in the Marib governorate. This collaboration will provide physical rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities, aiming to facilitate their reintegration into society.
It will involve personalized treatment plans, provision of various prosthetic limbs, occupational rehabilitation services, continuous follow-up care, and the enhancement of medical and technical staff skills to handle specialized cases. The project aims to curb the emigration of specialized personnel and is expected to benefit 7,174 individuals. Separately, the World Health Organization (WHO) signed a €3.4 million agreement with the German government to sustain lifesaving health and nutrition services in Yemen. According to a WHO statement, the initiative comes at a critical time: Yemen is grappling with a protracted, grade 3 emergency – the highest level of WHO health emergency response.
It said Yemen faces multiple and parallel outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, including circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), acute watery diarrhea and cholera, measles, diphtheria, malaria, and dengue fever. According to WHO, Yemen reported 204,000 suspected cases and 710 deaths between the outbreak of cholera in March 2024 and the end of September 2024.
Since the start of the year, 33,000 suspected measles cases have been reported, resulting in 280 deaths. By the end of 2024, it is estimated that over 223,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women, along with more than 600,000 children, will face malnutrition. Among these children, nearly 120,000 are expected to experience severe acute malnutrition (SAM), marking a 34% increase compared to the previous year.
