RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has signed three agreements to operate new projects in Yemen, state news agency SPA reported.
The Kingdom’s aid agency will start operating the Prosthetic Limbs and Rehabilitation Center in Aden, which is expected to benefit more than 3,500 people.
The center was the product of an agreement signed with International War and Disaster Victims Protection Association in Riyadh.
Abdullah Al-Muallem, director of the health and environmental aid department at KSrelief, said in a statement that the objective of this agreement is to provide specialized functional rehabilitation services to individuals with special needs who require prosthetic limbs, and assist them to find jobs.
The center will layout a treatment plan for each patient to provide the right prosthetic, and train medical staff as part of plans to reduce the migration of skilled personnel from war-torn Yemen.
In a separate agreement, KSrelief partnered with Prince Fahd bin Salman Charity Association for Kidney Failure Patients (Kellana) to establish Al-Yusr medical center that provides comprehensive kidney care in Yemen’s Hadramout.
The $5 million center is expected to provide free treatment to 579 kidney patients.
Al- Muallem said through high-quality services, the center aims to reduce deaths and improve the quality of life in Yemen.
Ahmed bin Ali Al-Baiz, KSrelief assistant general supervisor, signed another agreement with a Yemen civil society organization to roll out the second phase of the ‘Back to School’ project across four cities in Yemen.
The project will benefit 13,300 Yemeni students in the governorates of Hajjah, Abyan, Hadramout, and Taiz’s Mayyun Island.
Under the agreement, 95 classrooms will be equipped with supplies and educational materials including bags and school uniforms.
The agreement includes jobs for low-income families, beneficiaries of prior training, through the manufacture of school bags.
The first phase of the project was implemented last year and included the provision of school uniforms and bags to 11,586 Yemeni students, and the rehabilitation of 23 schools in the Hadramout, Al-Mahra, Aden and Hajjah governorates.
The first phase increased access to safe basic and secondary education for Yemeni students, improved learning conditions, and reduced the dropout rate.
