Al-Hudaydah – YDH media
Within The Project of Sponsoring Orphans and Economic Empowerment phase II
Through its implementing partner Yamany Foundation for Development and Humanitarian Works (YDH), King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief), provided 70 economic empowerment bags to beneficiaries of orphan families this morning in Al-Hudaydah governorate.
During the distribution event, Salem Alyan, General Director of Al-khawkha directorate, said that today we are launching the empowerment projects for 70 orphan families funded by King Salman Center (KSRelief) and the implementation of the local partner Yamany Foundation (YDH).
At the local authority in Al-khawkha directorate, we are extending our sincere thanks to King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) for its projects in this area.
As Alyan added that this project is a good news for orphans and their families, which helped them with cash sponsorships, training them in various fields and empowering them with these bags that were distributed today to qualify them to the labor market and will be a source of income for breadwinner families.
For his part, Mr. Hassan Aiesh, the Project Coordinator in Al-Hudaydah, noted that the provided projects have diversified in various fields, including mobile maintenance, electrical extensions, home-made accessories, sewing & embroidery, hairdressing, sweets and pastry making, perfume, incense and henna art.
The project aims to sponsor 1,300 male and female of orphans directly from orphans’ families in eight Yemeni governorates (Aden, Lahj, 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.
