UAE lauded for helping rebuild Socotra island
also needs to be bolstered so that authorities and aid agencies can monitor changes in hunger levels, and get early information about drought, locust infestations, cyclones and floods — which are frequent visitors to the impoverished country.
“It is absolutely critical for the authorities and the people themselves to ... be able to monitor these shocks so ... they can take early action to prevent it from turning into a big disaster,” Dominique Burgeon, director of Food and Agriculture Organisation’s emergency and rehabilitation division, said earlier this month.
“In terms of numbers, Yemen is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world,” he said.
The European Union has given €12 million to help 150,000 farmers, and to collect more data on people’s access to food, FAO said this week.
The construction of the Zayed Residential City-1 in Socotra, funded by the Emirates Red Crescent, is among the most important projects launched to shelter families affected by Cyclone Chapala and Cyclone Megh, said Major-General Salim Abdullah Al Socotri, Governor of Socotra.
During an inspection tour of the site of the project, he praised the UAE and its humanitarian agencies for funding and carrying out such vital development and service projects, the Yemen News Agency reported.
Briefed by engineers about progress of work, the governor expressed the hope that the project would be completed on schedule.
The governor also inspected work at the site of a project to build 12 additional classes at Al Zubairai School in the Nojad area. Funded by the Emirates Red Crescent, the project will help reduce overcrowding at the school.