Two children receiving education and food supplies provided by RAF in Yemen.
Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) has launched a fresh initiative at a cost of QR1.2m to create educational opportunities for poor students in Yemen.
The project is financed by the Endowment Fund of Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani for charity works. The project created educational opportunities for 976 poor students and financial supports to their 704 families in four governorates of Yemen: Aden, Lahaj, Abin and Al Dale .
RAF partnered with local authorities, charity organisations and schools to help enrol school dropouts and those who could not access education facilities due to financial reasons. They were given textbooks, bags, stationery and school uniforms.
The families of the beneficiary students are being provided food baskets for a year so they could send their children to school and not to work.
The initiative is part of the ongoing project ‘Al Ghaza W Al Nur (Food and Light)’ being executed by RAF, in collaboration with Unicef and the UN World Food Program (WFP).
The plan is to provide basic food items to needy families on a monthly basis so that they could send their children to school. The beneficiary families were suffering from extreme poverty. They could not send their children to schools due to financial reasons, said Dr Zaid Al Naqib, Chairman of Jusur foundation for development solution, RAF’s local partner in Yemen. The project 'food and light' aims at sending back school dropouts and those who are depriving from such facilities due to poverty, he added.
'Food & Light' initiative provides needy families with basic food items on a monthly basis for one year so they could send their children to school.
Small development projects are also being launched to provide livelihood for needy families like groceries and supermarkets among others.
