ERC moves to rebuild Yemen schools

ADEN: The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) teams have started rehabilitation of seven schools in Yemen as part of the UAE developmental and aid programmes during the Year of Tolerance.

In continuation of the Year of Zayed initiatives, the new projects include revamping seven schools: Al Wahda in Al Seimen; Tarek Bin Zayed in Al Shujeirah; Al Fajr in Taif; Al Ittihad in Mowazz; Al Fatah in Qataba; Ali Bin Al Fakhar, Al Matina; and Al Kheir in Mowashaj, Red Sea Coast.

These will be followed by seven more rehabilitation developments in the villages, cities and districts of Taiz and Hodeidah, Red Sea Coast.

During the 2018, the UAE rebuilt 36 educational facilities and distributed 10,000 school bags and 10,000 school uniforms in addition to the re-enrollment and re-integration of 24,000 female and male students back into schools.

Yemeni officials and dignitar- ies across the Red Sea Coast have commended the noble gestures which have effectively contributed to improving living standards and restoring normalcy in a number of Yemeni territories.

Meanwhile, a total of 1,272 food baskets have been distributed by the Emirates Red Crescent’s convoys across remote and nomadic pastoralist areas in a number of districts in the governorate of Shabwa, from which 7,709 eligible locals have benefitted. The convoys, fitting within the UAE continued aid programmes in Yemen, reached out to medical and disabled rehabilitation centres as well as oncology units.

The relief material, which included essential aid items, were distributed among the patients and medical staff who expressed appreciation to the UAE for the continued assistance sent by the country’s premier humanitarian arm.