Displaced people of Hodeidah in Aden protest in front of the Red Cross headquarters
English - Thursday 10 September 2020 الساعة 07:15 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, Ali Bashara:
A number of IDPs from Al Hodeidah governorate organized a protest stand in front of the International Red Cross headquarters in Khor Maksar in the temporary capital of Aden, due to the confiscation of their financial rights.
The displaced protesters in Aden raised banners denouncing the confiscation of their rights by the Red Cross officials.
They demanded that the Red Cross approve them within the sums of money granted to the rest of the displaced within the (cash money) program.
A member of the community committee to assist the displaced from Hodeidah, Ahmed Masawi, told NewsYemen that the representatives of the Red Cross in Aden apologized for targeting this batch and created new excuses and different methods of playing numbers with the beneficiaries' cards, such as deleting a number and replacing it with another.
One of these justifications is that the beneficiary cards' numbers do not match the register, which in turn led to the dropping of many names.
He explained that when the time for the fourth batch and targeting the beneficiaries came, none of them had been received, as it was confiscated by the people in charge of the Red Cross in Aden.
Stressing, that this pause was not wanted by the displaced, except that the people in charge of the cross were the ones who forced us to organize it, due to the failure of those in charge of the cross to respond to us, and to turn off their phones while calling them.
During the vigil, the project official at the Red Cross in Khor Maksar summoned a member of the meeting committee, Ahmed Masawi, to enter and negotiate with him.
Masawi said that the project official at the Cross did not report anything new except that the project was approved by Sana'a for 1,400 families, while the number that was previously approved was 4000 families, and the rest of the beneficiaries were excluded.
He confirmed that she had contacted all the beneficiaries by phone and did not answer anything.
Masawi denied what the project official said about communicating with the beneficiaries, and that she did not contact any of the beneficiaries of the third and fourth batches of this project.
