RIYADH: Rashad Al-Alimi, the chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, granted the “Medal of Bravery” to his country’s Executive Mine Action Center and Saudi Arabia’s Masam Project on Monday.
The award is in recognition of the project’s efforts in clearing land mines on Yemeni soil.
Masam is a Saudi initiative overseen by the King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid, which is dedicated to providing philanthropic aid across the globe. KSrelief currently has 2,402 ongoing and completed projects in 92 countries in its list of accomplishments.
The Masam Project’s work is to continue in Yemen for a sixth year after KSrelief reiterated its support for the scheme, which began in June 2018.
The project has so far managed to extract 405,213 explosives in Yemen, including 251,410 unexploded ordnances, 7,836 devices, 139,709 anti-tank mines, and 6,258 anti-personnel mines.
