In partnership with Yemen Red Crescent Society (YRCS), Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has launched a food distribution project, to meet the basic food needs of 19,530 people in Dhale, Al-Bayda and Dhamar Governorates, at a total cost of QR2,282,725.
The project is aimed at ensuring food security for 2,790 vulnerable families, by distributing 8,370 three-month food parcels, amid deteriorating living conditions for over half of the country’s population, as a result of the prolonged conflict and economic crisis.
During the inauguration ceremony of phase one, Abdel-Wasie Saleh Hamad, director of Damt District, Dhale, praised the organisers of the project and thanked QRCS and YRCS, a statement said yesterday.
The project’s team has already distributed 2,070 food parcels in Al-Bayda and Dhamar, with a special focus on poor people, families with no source of income, orphans and older persons. Each parcel contains 60kg of food staples such as flour, sugar, rice, canned beans, vegetable oil and salt.
A recent food security report by the UN World Food Programme revealed that 40% of Yemeni families reported insufficient food, a too high rate in 17 out of the country’s 22 governorates. Al-Bayda had the highest rate (73%), while the lowest was Dhale (62%).
The Global Hunger Index shows that Yemen comes third among the countries with the world’s highest hunger rates in 2023, the statement added.
