HODEIDA February 02. 2023 (Saba) - Hodeida Governor, Muhammad Ayyash, discussed with the Resident Representative of UNICEF in Yemen, Peter Hawkins, and his accompanying delegation, the organization's interventions in health areas, education, and water in the province.
During the meeting Qahim, praised the interventions and support of UNICEF for the health, education, water, and other humanitarian interventions, which contributed to alleviating citizens' suffering in the province as a result of the aggression, siege, and escalation against the province.
He explained that many service sectors need support, including water projects for neighborhoods and residential neighborhoods that did not reach the water service, in addition to rehabilitating the sewage treatment plant damaged by the aggression’s targeting it, and supporting health centers and units in villages and rural isolation, by providing them with medical devices and equipment, medicines and health supplies.
Qahim confirmed the keenness of the local authority in the province to provide facilities to UNICEF to implement its service and humanitarian interventions in it.
Through the meeting, in the presence of the deputy governors of the province, Muhammad Hulaisi and Ali Al-Kabari, and the deputy director of the Supreme Council for Humanitarian Affairs, Abdullah Al-Ahdal, and the director of the local corporation for water and sanitation, Abd al-Rahman Ishaq, reviewed the organization's needs for support to provide fuel to pump water to citizens' houses around the clock, especially since water pumping decreased by 50% as a result of not providing fuel to operate the company's electric generators.
For his part, Hawkins appreciated the cooperation and support of the local authority in the province with the organization's teams operating in Hodeida, while implementing its interventions with health support, education and water sectors.
He pointed out that the organization will work to double its support for the health sector, especially in treating malnourished children, and support health centers and units in villages and rural isolation.
In addition to supporting the educational sector through the rehabilitation and restoration of a number of schools, and the disbursement of financial incentives to more than 9 thousand male and female teachers. in Hodeida.
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resource : SABA
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