UAE Red Crescent launches awareness campaign at schools on West Coast on landmines

English - Tuesday 19 March 2019 الساعة 06:50 pm
Aden – NewsYemen.net

The UAE Red Crescent Authority teams are carrying out an awareness campaign on the West Coast schools of Yemen on mines' dangers, and how to avoid them and how to deal with minefields and projectiles.

The awareness campaign was launched Thursday at al-Zahrah School for Girls and al-Etehad Schools for Boys in Mawza'a district, and at Omar Bin AbdulAziz School in al-Jadid and al-Fath area in Waheja area, which lasts for ten days.

The representative of the Red Crescent Authority on the West Coast said that the campaign aims to sensitize students to avoid places where the Houthi militias planted minefields.

He pointed out that the campaign will include schools of the liberated districts on the West Coast to create awareness among students about the dangers of mines and their locations.