KSrelief helping train Yemeni girls for brighter future

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  • Scheme offers courses in sewing, embroidery, technology, photography

RIYADH: The Saudi aid agency KSrelief recently launched an education program in Yemen as part of a project to train girls who fell out of the school system.

The program offers orphan caregivers’ families a choice of 14 courses, covering skills like sewing, embroidery, incense and perfume production, food industries, technology and photography.

Aligned with ºÚÁÏÉçÇøâ€™s efforts to enhance Yemen’s education sector, the project has already benefited 280 trainees in Lahj, Abyan, Marib, Hadramout and Socotra.

Elsewhere in Yemen, KSrelief is continuing to develop a dialysis center in the Al-Dhale governorate, which provides medicines and other essential supplies to people with kidney problems.

It is also building a desalination plant and has recruited a nephrology specialist to oversee patient treatment.

In Lebanon, KSrelief is funding the Al-Amal Charitable Bakery project, which provides 25,000 bread bags a day to Syrian and Palestinian refugee families and local people in Akkar governorate and Al-Minieh district.

In Pakistan, the aid agency distributed 1,500 food baskets in flood-affected areas of Sibi and Qalat, Balochistan province, benefiting 10,500 individuals. The initiative is part of its 2023-24 Food Security Support Project.

Since its inception in 2015, KSrelief has implemented 2,670 projects worth more than $6.5 billion in 95 countries and worked with 175 local, regional and international partners.

According to a report by the agency, the bulk of the support has gone to Yemen ($4.3 billion), followed by Syria ($391 million), Palestine ($370 million) and Somalia ($227 million).

KSrelief’s programs cover food security, health, sanitation, shelter, nutrition, education, telecommunications and logistics.