Collecting donor funds and manipulating humanitarian organizations.. Hodeidah is groaning from the brunt of suffering
English - Saturday 04 March 2023 الساعة 03:26 pm
Hodeidah, NewsYemen, exclusive:
The liberated areas in Hodeidah suffer from a lack of humanitarian services and sustainable development projects, like other Yemeni governorates, as a result of the protracted Houthi war, and the simple citizen pays for it.
International and international organizations are still seeking donor and support funds under the cover of intensifying their efforts and continuity of their activities in order to recover the deteriorating conditions in Yemen, rebuild humanitarian projects and provide humanitarian and relief aid to the Yemenis affected by the Houthi war.
The holding of donor conferences coincides with the issuance of more warnings by UN and international organizations about the occurrence of humanitarian disasters such as hunger, the spread of the cycle of poverty, and the spread of diseases and epidemics as a result of the faltering peace efforts, the inability to calm the situation, and the intensification of the battles.
The last of these conferences was a few days ago in Geneva, which was organized by Sweden, Switzerland and the United Nations in order to raise funds for the humanitarian response plan in Yemen for the year 2023. The United Nations was able to obtain financial pledges amounting to more than 1.2 billion dollars.
Despite the intensification of efforts to support the Yemenis, the projects of the humanitarian response plan in Yemen are still unable to provide anything for the groups affected by the war. Especially the residents of Al-Hodeidah Governorate and its displaced people in the liberated areas who have been severely affected, as the majority of service projects and facilities such as water, health care and education are almost destroyed after being detonated and booby-trapped by the Houthi militia, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of explosive mines left by these Iranian-backed militias in order to kill lives.
The governor of Hodeidah, Dr. Al-Hassan Taher, said in a public statement that the United Nations has collected nearly one billion and 200 million dollars. What we hope is that our share in the province of Hodeidah will be in sustainable projects that benefit the displaced and the host community.
He stressed that in our province (the liberated areas) we have great needs, including "health, education and roads". We urgently need to implement sustainable strategic projects that serve the citizen.
These sums are collected annually by the United Nations from countries in the name of the Donors Conference, but these sums are handed over to international organizations operating in Yemen and most of their projects are temporary and not sustainable, and organizations always justify that their work is humanitarian and will not be a substitute for the government.
Thousands of families in the displacement camps in the liberated areas suffer from the lack of the most basic needs, lack of food, shelter and financial aid, as well as housing that has become unfit for living to accommodate the families forced into forced displacement by the Houthi militia, and the absence of health care for the displaced and their children.
In this regard, the director of the Executive Unit in Hodeidah, Jamal Al-Mashra’i, explained in a special statement to NewsYemen that the total number of families that live in the camps of Al-Khawkhah, Hays, Al-Haymah, and in separate areas and places within Al-Hawash are more than (19141) families, who live in difficult humanitarian conditions, as a result of the lack of food and shelter. In addition to the widespread seasonal diseases and epidemics that kill children and the elderly inside the displacement camps.
As a result of the failure of international humanitarian organizations and their failure to fulfill their duty towards the displaced who are living a harsh life, the legislator explained the role of the organizations, and said that they did not provide anything, but rather justified that there was no funding to face the very bad situation in Yemen.
He stressed that the majority of UN and international organizations have stopped most of the interventions this year, under the pretext of lack of funding. Pointing out that the executive unit monitored the new year 2023 , more than (359) families came to Hays and Al-Khawkhah from the liberated areas of the Maqbana district, west of Taiz, as a result of the Houthi escalation and the continuous bombardment launched by the militia on civilian objects, which led to a large wave of displacement during the months of January and February of the year Present . The wave of displacement continues in light of the failure of UN and international organizations to provide the most basic assistance to these disadvantaged and displaced families.
