KSRelief, FAO Sign Humanitarian Deal to Support 24,000 Yemeni Farming Families

KSRelief, FAO Sign Humanitarian Deal to Support 24,000 Yemeni Farming Families
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KSRelief, FAO Sign Humanitarian Deal to Support 24,000 Yemeni Farming Families

KSRelief, FAO Sign Humanitarian Deal to Support 24,000 Yemeni Farming Families

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) announced an ambitious new five-year strategic joint cooperation agreement with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

As a first step under the new expanded partnership, KSRelief contributed $5 million to improve the food security and nutrition of more than 24,000 highly vulnerable smallholder farming families in Yemen.

It will provide them with high quality vegetable seeds, tools and irrigation kits and animal feed and mineral blocks, while also offering them training on nutrition-sensitive agriculture to help them improve their diets

The agreement commits the partners to scale up joint action to meet humanitarian needs, address drivers of acute food security and help at-risk agricultural communities build resilience to shocks that undermine their productive potential.

It also outlines efforts to improve knowledge sharing on agricultural best practices, engage in data-driven development work via FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative and advance agricultural innovation to help small-scale food producers achieve better production and build better lives.

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and KSRelief’s Supervisor-General Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Rabeeah signed the agreement at FAO’s Rome headquarters on Tuesday.

“We are looking forward to bolster our partnership not only in the humanitarian arena but also in the area of data and knowledge for development, including work under FAO’s innovative Hand-in-Initiative, which is opening up new opportunities for vulnerable agricultural communities in the Near East and North Africa region and beyond,” said Dongyu.

“By working together, we can make a huge difference in the lives of rural communities pushed to the brink by crises.”

Rabeeah, for his part, said the signing of the agreement represents the expanding partnership between KSRelief and FAO to help many people in need as well as help communities develop to be more resilient and thereby become more self-dependent.

Saudi Arabia and FAO have been long standing partners and with the establishment of KSRelief, ties have become closer and expanded into capacity building and exchange of information.

Both bodies have been keen to address global issues to improve life quality and ensure safer environment.

KSRelief is thrilled to see this relationship become a model to be followed for helping communities and countries in need, he concluded.

Since its establishment in 2005, KSrelief has provided about $33 million in support to FAO emergency and resilience interventions.

KSRelief has been FAO’s largest humanitarian resource partner among the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in addressing food insecurity and malnutrition and reaching to the people in need the most.



KSrelief Signs Agreements to Strengthen Education and Healthcare Sectors in Yemen

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed on Wednesday a cooperation agreement to carry out the third phase of the Back to School Project in Al-Mukha district in Taiz Governorate (SPA)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed on Wednesday a cooperation agreement to carry out the third phase of the Back to School Project in Al-Mukha district in Taiz Governorate (SPA)
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KSrelief Signs Agreements to Strengthen Education and Healthcare Sectors in Yemen

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed on Wednesday a cooperation agreement to carry out the third phase of the Back to School Project in Al-Mukha district in Taiz Governorate (SPA)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed on Wednesday a cooperation agreement to carry out the third phase of the Back to School Project in Al-Mukha district in Taiz Governorate (SPA)

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed on Wednesday various agreements to promote the educational and medical sectors in several Yemeni governorates, benefiting over 13,000 individuals.
At the educational level, the Center signed a cooperation agreement with a civil society organization to carry out the third phase of the Back to School Project in Al-Mukha district in Taiz governorate, Thamud district in Hadramaut governorate, as well as in the governorates of Shabwah, Abyan, and Lahj, Yemen, benefiting some 6,000 individuals.
Assistant Supervisor General of Operations and Programs at KSrelief Engineer Ahmed Al Baiz signed the agreement on the sidelines of the International Conference on Conjoined Twins in Riyadh.
The agreement entails providing 60 fully equipped classrooms and outfitting 10 schools to create a suitable learning environment for students, and distributing 6,000 school uniforms and bags containing school supplies.
Furthermore, job opportunities will be created for low-income families (beneficiaries of previous training and empowerment projects) by having them make school bags and uniforms.
This initiative is part of the relief and humanitarian endeavors carried out by the Kingdom through KSrelief to bolster the safety and continuity of the educational process, and tackle student dropout rates in the specified regions in Yemen.

At the medical level, KSrelief and the International Wars and Disasters Victims' Protection Association (IRVD) signed a cooperation agreement to establish a prosthetic and rehabilitation center in Yemen’s Marib governorate.
This collaboration will offer physical rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities, focusing on their integration into society.
It will involve personalized treatment plans, provision of various prosthetic limbs, occupational rehabilitation services, continuous follow-up care, and the enhancement of medical and technical staff skills to handle specialized cases.
The project aims to curb the emigration of specialized personnel and is expected to benefit 7,174 individuals.
Separately, the World Health Organization (WHO) signed a €3.4 million agreement with the German government to sustain lifesaving health and nutrition services in Yemen.
According to a WHO statement, the initiative comes at a critical time: Yemen is grappling with a protracted, grade 3 emergency – the highest level of WHO health emergency response.
It said Yemen faces multiple and parallel outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, including circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), acute watery diarrhea and cholera, measles, diphtheria, malaria and dengue fever.
According to WHO, Yemen reported 204 000 suspected cases and 710 deaths between the outbreak of cholera in March 2024 and the end of September 2024.
Since the beginning of the year, 33,000 suspected measles cases have been reported, with 280 associated deaths.
By the end of 2024, it is projected that over 223,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women and more than 600,000 children will be malnourished.
Among these children, nearly 120,000 are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), a 34% increase on the previous year.