Al-Mahra – YDH media
Within The Project of Sponsoring Orphans and Economic Empowerment of their Families
Through its implementing partner Yamany Foundation for Development and Humanitarian Works (YDH), King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief), provided 50 economic empowerment bags to beneficiaries of orphan families this morning in Al-Mahra governorate.
During the distribution event, the First Undersecretary of Al-Mahra governorate, Brigadier. Mukhtar Bin Awaid Al-Jaafari, stated that the project will contribute to permanent assistance to orphan families and they should start to the labor market, where empowerment bags provide them an integrated project.
For his part, Mr. Hafiz Al-Nahari, coordinator of the orphans sponsorship and economic empowerment project in the governorate, stressed that these bags will contribute to supporting families supporting orphans, and we found families after the training courses in their readiness to start their income-generating projects.
The project aims to sponsor 1,300 male and female of orphans directly from orphans’ families in eight Yemeni governorates (Aden, Lahij, Marib, Al-Mahra, Hadhramaut, Al Hudaydah, Taiz and Al-Jawf) for a year, through which it contributes to create sustainable employment opportunities for families that have lost their breadwinner and turning them into productive families.
It is worth mentioning that the project included training and empowering 440 members of these families in small projects management and develop their capacity in livelihood projects before provide them the projects and its operational tools.
