Displaced people returning home have difficulty finding livelihoods
English - Saturday 05 October 2019 الساعة 02:43 pm
Mocha – NewsYemen.net
Um Saeed returned to her village in al-Husayn district in al-Dhali governorate with her son's family. After years of displacement, her son, Saed, 39, used to work as a daily laborer on a farm in the area. Due to the war and Houthi militia attacks, the farm is no longer workable and the job is no longer available.
Saeed says: most of the days, I can not find work, we are struggling to get enough food, especially with the continuous increase in food prices, I do not have a steady income, we borrow money and food from neighbors, and we lend food from groceries, Until we find money to pay them, we sometimes sell sheep to pay the debt to the grocery owner.
Saeed's situation is no different from that of hundreds of thousands of displaced people who have found an opportunity to return to their homes, and have been hit by the lack of jobs from which they lived before fleeing Houthi militia fire elsewhere.
The war sparked by the Houthi militia in Yemen, which continues in its fifth year, has forced millions of families to flee their homes and left more than 24 million people in need of basic items such as food, water and hygiene items.
The Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, a French-based NGO active in Yemen with humanitarian interventions for refugee families, through cash transfers, called on NGOs working in Yemen to address the urgent needs of farmers and their families, allowing them to stay on their land and regain their livelihoods.
The agency said in its report, "cash assistance helps Yemenis return and stay in their land," that the provision of emergency food assistance to families affected by the conflict, provides the basis on which to begin to rebuild their livelihoods and support Yemen in meeting the food needs of its people.
