Arakan News Agency
USD 17.6 million will be used to provide monthly food assistance for nearly 500,000 people in Yemen for three months through food rations or vouchers.
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) contributed USD 18.6 million assistance in Yemen and to support Rohingya refugees and host communities in the Cox’s Bazar area in Bangladesh.
The agreements were signed during a ceremony in Riyadh in the presence of KSRelief Supervisor General Dr. Al Rabeeah and WFP GCC Director Al-Wardat.
“WFP is grateful for KSRelief’s timely support for our response to both crises and values our ongoing partnership with the center,” said Abdallah Al-Wardat, WFP Director in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Region. “We have been working with KSRelief since its establishment and look forward to continuing our partnership to reach people most in need.”
Within the overall contribution, USD 17.6 million will be used to provide monthly food assistance for nearly 500,000 people in Yemen for three months through food rations or vouchers. Yemen is facing one of the worst hunger crises in the world, with nearly 18 million people not knowing where their next meal is coming from.
The remaining USD 1 million will enable WFP to provide food assistance to some 28,000 vulnerable Rohingya refugees for three months. More than 880,000 Rohingya refugees live in camps in the Cox’s Bazar area one of the poorest districts of Bangladesh – and continue to need urgent assistance.
“We seek to strengthen our partnership in the field of humanitarian action to fight hunger and provide emergency food assistance as well as improve the nutritional status of the world’s needy,” added Dr. Al Rabeeah.
