As part of its tireless humanitarian efforts around the world, the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center allocates humanitarian projects and programs concerned with women’s protection, support and economic empowerment, as they are the backbone of the family and have a fundamental and effective role in the renaissance of societies.
Since its establishment, the center has implemented 279 humanitarian projects aimed at helping women and girls in 68 needy and affected countries, covering various humanitarian sectors that ensure women play their full role in their society. About 73 million women have benefited from them, with a value of more than 464 million US dollars, in cooperation United Nations organizations, international organizations and civil society organizations.
The center’s projects in this aspect included providing assistance to vulnerable and displaced women in the targeted countries by enhancing protection services for them, empowering them economically and building their capacities by providing them with training programs in the professional and commercial fields, and providing them with the necessary tools that help in finding income-generating opportunities, thus contributing to improving livelihoods. For them and their families, in addition to implementing the center nutritional projects that benefit pregnant and lactating mothers, including providing them with treatment and health care, including reproductive health services, and providing awareness sessions on this aspect.
The brotherly Yemen came at the forefront of the countries that benefited from these projects, as the King Salman Relief Center pays great attention to the humanitarian conditions of vulnerable and displaced women there. The Commission’s efforts in protecting women from gender-based violence in Yemen by establishing protection centers dedicated to this and building the capacities of its workers. Providing it with basic materials to achieve wider income opportunities.
The King Salman Relief Center has also contributed to the United Nations Population Fund to support and empower the most vulnerable women and girls in Yemen and improve protection and health services for them. The Fund confirmed in a statement issued last year that the partnership between the two sides has contributed since 2015 to helping hundreds of thousands of women and girls. in various Yemeni governorates.
The center has also supported the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to provide basic health services for mothers and newborns in Yemen, to localize the sustainability of health services provision for them, and to train and qualify emergency obstetricians and neonatologists.
In addition, the center has implemented 15 nutritional projects in various Yemeni governorates, with a value of more than 154 million US dollars, aimed at providing medical and treatment services to pregnant and lactating mothers and children under the age of five.
These projects stem from the Kingdom’s keenness, represented by the Center, to stand by the most vulnerable and needy groups in the affected and afflicted countries, to alleviate their suffering and contribute to achieving a decent life for them.
