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- The project offers 14 educational and training courses covering sewing, embroidery, incense and perfume making, culinary arts, technology, photography and more
RIYADH: Saudi aid agency KSrelief recently provided vocational training to 40 Yemeni girls from foster families.
The culinary, sewing and entrepreneurship empowerment-for-education training was held in Yemen’s Socotra Governorate.
The scheme was held in cooperation with the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and is part of a wider project encouraging education for girls in Yemen.
Brig. Gen. Saleh Ali Saad Al-Saqtari, representative of the Socotra Governorate, commended KSrelief’s humanitarian projects in the region. He said the girls’ education project will provide sustainable sources of income for families and support women in pursuing careers.
The project offers 14 educational and training courses covering sewing, embroidery, incense and perfume making, culinary arts, technology, photography and more.
So far, more than 280 girls have benefited from KSrelief vocational training in Lahj, Abyan, Marib, Hadramout and Socotra.
The project is part of the humanitarian and relief projects provided by the Kingdom’s humanitarian arm, KSrelief, to impoverished families in Yemen.
Meanwhile, the center distributed 790 food baskets to displaced families in White Nile State, Sudan, helping 4,910 people.
KSrelief also distributed 400 food baskets in the Kohistan district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as part of the third phase of its Food Security Support Project. The aid benefited 2,800 people in vulnerable flood-affected areas.