"Cash for work" in Mocha helps displaced families to overcome their difficult circumstances
English - Thursday 10 October 2019 الساعة 08:32 pm
Aden – NewsYemen.net
In the middle of the yard of the Kuwait school in Mocha, a group of women holding shovels and hygiene items lined up to start cleaning the school, which for three years has been a garbage dump for 25 displaced families that it has taken in as a displacement camp.
Soad told Newsyemen that she is one of 20 women who work for the school in the first phase of rehabilitation.
Suad earns 18,000 riyals for her weekly job, which is a suitable amount for a family whose members could not find another source of income.
Souad shares her colleague, Khadija, in the opportunity for displaced women to find work, after being forced with the rest of their families to leave their areas.
Khadija says IDPs are paying a heavy price for leaving their areas, leaving behind all their belongings, and overnight becoming destitute families with nothing.
She adds that the cash-for-work program is unique in terms of helping the family change their difficult living situation.
Um Said said that she sought to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the Fund to employ women, after she felt that the amounts received by her husband are not commensurate with the expenditure of her family.
She says she has decided to work with the Kuwait school cleaning team to help her husband save as much money as possible.
Fatima, about 20, is working with the fund to help her elderly father.
She says her 60-year-old father is unable to work, forcing her to seek a job at the fund to provide for basic needs.
The Fund is also working on the employment of male IDPs in rehabilitation projects on the streets and central islands of Mocha.
