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By CSSW
The food aid project is a haven for more than 65,000 families in Lahj
and Taiz governorates
“My life is fatigue”… With these two words, Asma Mahfouz explained
her living situation, even though the word fatigue sounds like a soft word
to describe the condition of a woman in her fifties, whose husband died
and left her eight children, in a country that has been experiencing
intertwining crises for years.
Asma Mahfouz, a woman from Lahj governorate, poverty has brought her
to the point where she has been unable to buy shoes for her orphan
children, who have been without shoes since the decease of their only
breadwinner, and paint with their bare feet the other side of the hell of
war in the afflicted Yemen.
The situation of this family is not much different from that of the
displaced Muhammad Abdulqawi, who supports five children and lives
with five displaced families in one house in Sala district of Taiz
governorate. Even this small house did not escape the war shells either.
The food aid project targeted 65,067 families in Sala district of Taiz
governorate, and eleven districts in Lahj governorate, with the aim of
enhancing food security for these families by providing basic food needs.
Monthly aid
The beneficiary families were selected based on the criteria approved by
the donor agency, the WFP. Then the project provided its services
throughout 2020 to these families suffering from war and hunger.
There are now 7010 families in Sala district of Taiz governorate that
receive a varied food basket on a monthly basis, and 15,130 families in
Al-Qabbeitah district in Lahj governorate receive food vouchers on a
monthly basis as well.
This is what people need to avoid major famine in a country on the brink
of total collapse. And humanitarian projects like this need CSSW as an
active and reliable partner with the capacity to reach hundreds of
thousands of people in need of assistance.
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