Sanitation projects, as it is known, need great financial capabilities and resources, and as a result of the conditions in Yemen, the implementation of this type of project has stopped, and because these projects are related to the daily lives of people, the Public Works Project was keen through its meetings with international funders to provide support for these projects because of their role in improving the health and environmental situation of the population in Yemeni cities, especially in popular and poor neighborhoods, especially with the spread of infectious diseases and epidemics such as (cholera) , malaria, diets etc.), where such projects are a lifeline for many Yemenis in the targeted areas, especially in light of rapidly spreading epidemics that are contagious and life-threatening, as the project succeeded through sanitation projects, especially in densely populated areas of the poor, displaced people, and destitute and marginalized groups, in reducing these epidemics and diseases and creating a safe environmental and health situation after the implementation of sewage network projects.

Rescue for women and children

Women and children are the most benefited group from sanitation projects, because they are  the most affected by diseases and epidemics resulting from sewage waste in neighborhoods and streets, where injuries and deaths due to infectious diseases and epidemics such as (cholera, malaria, fevers) were recorded among women and children, and therefore one of the most important  results achieved for sanitation projects is to improve the level of public health and the environmental situation of society, especially for children, who were located around sewage swamps in the streets, and also improve the level of Sanitation services and thus significantly improve public health, reduce infectious diseases and reduce health care expenses.

Indicators

During the period January-December 2023, in the field of sanitation, 25 projects  were completed at a cost of $ 3.4 million, benefiting about 46,000 people, and 180 temporary job opportunities were created. Month-worker

Rehabilitation of the sewage network of Hodeidah city. A precious gift for women and children

Many families have been displaced from residential neighborhoods in the city of Hodeidah due to the overflow of streets (lanes) with sewage waste, and the resulting life-threatening diseases, but the cost of displacement is lower for most families than the expenses of hospitals and treatments, or paying the most expensive price of money, which is death.

Living with illness

Saadia Salem Saeed, a housewife, from the Corniche neighborhood, speaks, saying: Our life with sewage overflow is unbearable, diseases such as (malaria, diarrhea, fevers) have become inseparable from us, it was summer or winter, many of the deaths occurred among women, children and the elderly, as well as abortions for pregnant women, we were displaced to more than one place even outside the city of Hodeidah, but the difficult living conditions forced us to swallow the bitterness of returning and living with mosquitoes and epidemics, we sold everything We own it and we have no choice but to return to our home even if death awaits us, she adds, my children were crying from the intensity of the pain, their bodies were beeping until the child became skin and bone.

Precious gift

Repairing the sewage network, disappearing sewage, unpleasant odors and disease-carrying mosquitoes are the biggest service for women and children in Hodeidah city, says Saadia, who sees disease as the biggest enemy of man and life as the most precious thing.

The rehabilitation of the city's drainage network by the Public Works Project, the lifeline for the people of Hodeidah city from the diseases and epidemics that spread in the city due to the overflow of sewage waste in residential neighborhoods and public streets, as confirmed by the Local Corporation for Water and Sanitation in the city of Hodeidah.

She points out that the health and environmental situation in the city of Hodeidah after the rehabilitation of the sewage network has improved, the rates of infectious diseases have decreased, and residential neighborhoods have become safe for health and environment.

Improved health and environmental situation

Today, after the intervention of the public works project, citizens live a daily life away from diseases, epidemics and unpleasant odors, and streets, corridors and clean neighborhoods free of sewage waste, all of which results have been achieved in the field and their impact is felt by citizens daily after the intervention of the public works project in the implementation of sewage projects, and these projects also had a good impact on the hearts of citizens as they saved them from epidemics and infectious diseases and maintained the private and public health of society.

The people of Sheikh Othman and Al-Mualla in Aden live in a safe health situation

Many neighborhoods in the districts of Sheikh Othman and Al-Mualla in the city of Aden, their homes suffer from the deterioration of sewage networks that connect homes to the main network known among the people (back corridors), these corridors are overflowing with sewage coming out of homes and piled with garbage and waste in huge quantities, an environmental and health disaster that has disturbed the lives of hundreds of families as a result of diseases and epidemics that have killed society, women and children in the foreground.

Adeeb Mubarak Jaafar says: Families in Al-Mualla have become living in fear and daily anxiety, due to the departure of the sewage networks of the back corridors from service, the accumulation of garbage and the infectious diseases it causes, especially when they find that diseases are widespread and children are the most infected, and families' expenses on treatment are exhausting and at the expense of a living.

He explains: The people are unable to repair these networks or remove waste because it is a problem accumulated for years, and the local authority does not have the resources to do so, and for this when the field visit was carried out by the social researchers affiliated with the Public Works Project to listen to people and determine their needs from the projects, there was a societal and official consensus on the implementation of the project to rehabilitate the back corridor networks for sewage, because the situation has become unbearable and people did not believe that there is someone who will save them from this situation.   

Table (4) lists the completed projects in the sanitation sector during the period January-December 2023 cumulatively.