Um Saleh lost her husband five years ago. She has replaced her husband as the bread winner in the five-member household – three females, the oldest of whom is 12 years old, and a six-year old boy.
Um Saleh lost her husband five years ago. She has replaced her husband as the bread winner in the five-member household – three females, the oldest of whom is 12 years old, and a six-year old boy.
In the rainy season, the road turns into swamps of stagnant water and a source of foul smell that smells in the neighborhoods. It also provides an environment suitable for infectious diseases such as fever and malaria.
Samar, a ten years old girl from al-Hamrah village of Udain District - the Governorate of Ibb- went out in the morning as usual to fetch water. She and a number of young girls from her village headed for the Manboosh spring in Qadeef Valley. Samar didn't know what fate awaits her that day. She didn't know it was the last time she would go out to fetch water and may not come home alive.
Al-Kharba Primary School is the only school for four villages belonging to the rural areas of Mukalla in Hadramout. It has been built by the residents 24 years ago. Since then, it has not undergone any maintenance or restoration to get out of service. It become unmotivated for the residents to encourage their children on the education , especially females.
The educational complex in Sabah – Governorate of Abyan – no longer lives up to what is expected from an educational building. The only sign that it's an educational institution is the signboard. All other features have vanished. 37 years after it was built, the complex have never been maintained or renovated since the early eighties when it was built.
Access to domestic used and potable water in Al-Anan area - Al-Jawf Governorate - is not easy, but getting 80 liters of water needs to take five kilometers to the nearest well in the area, or pay 20 thousand riyals to buy water tank and needs to wait 60 days until the role comes, the water available is highly salty and unfit for drinking.
Salim Abdo Salim, who is in his fifties, and a resident of al-Jarrah Village - District of Hais - has become homeless with his four children. His home and thirteen other homes in the area were swept away by torrent floods in 2016. Up till today, he and the other homeowners haven't been able to rebuild their homes.
Haj Saleh Abdullah Shattan, 40, farmer from Nu'man village, he relies on agriculture as a sole source of income to support his family of nine persons. He is a model for the residents of Naaman village, 80 percent of whom live below the poverty line. The land is much more productive or declining as there is no produce.
Salim al-Awadhi, a 40-year-old resident of Al-Rebat village in Al-Sadah directorate, Ibb governorate, who is waiting for his new baby, didn't expect that the flowing water on Bana'a valley will be a barrier between the river, his wife with her fetus and the flood blockage will be a reason of his wife and fetus death.
Salim al-Awadhi's Wife suffered from dystocia and bleeding which could have been saved with her fetus if there was a bridge linking the village with the other side of the river.
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