Al-Hayal is located on the western side of the Marib Dam lake. It is administratively managed by Az-Zour district, Siroah Directorate , Next to Sirwah there is Sawabeen village , which has a small school and a small water project.

Temporary housing

The conflict in Sirwah forced many families to displace to the banks of the Mareb Dam. Due to on the existence of both sides on the land, as well as to the presence of trees in the lake which benefited from the construction of temporary houses of trunks and branches of trees.
Many families have been displaced and have only their livestock and some of their necessary needs because they believe that the period of displacement will be just days or weeks, but the period is long and the months have passed without return.

Suffering

Many displaced families settled in Al-Hayal and Al-Sawabeen area, believing that this area was far from the conflict, but was approaching the area of their displacement until the road linking them to Marib was cut off and the main market where they get food from. People went to Marib by the dry part of the dam till the rainy season in 2016 came, which witnessed a continuous flood of Authna valley and the lake was filled with water . They were marooned , suffered and went through a lot of trouble because of the lack of markets, their homes and farms and the inability to graze their livestock. The conflict besieged them from the west and water from the east, they have suffered from the scarcity of drinking water because the Al-Sawabeen project who depend on it is no longer sufficient and was suspended in some periods because the well is located in areas of conflict. The school, which consists of 3 classes did not fit to the families of about 650 families.

The suffering of the people continued until the stability returned to their area and opened the way to Marib. Some aid did not cover the need, they have suffered from lack of water, the school was not available to their children and they were unable to return to their villages
because they were still places for conflict and most of the house were destroyed.

Extrapolation

The intervention of the public works project in the construction of a 150 m3 land reservoir has a great psychological impact on the people who felt that there was someone who was groping for their suffering and working to alleviate it. The project will also be a stabilizing factor encouraging some to build a house suitabl