Hajj Yahya Saleh.. The story of a family displaced by war

Hajj Yahya Saleh.. The story of a family displaced by war

August / 2021

He had a house to shelter, water to irrigate, and sufficient sustenance.. He never thought that he and his family would leave their humble home.

This is the story of Hajj "Yahya Saleh Ahmed", who is 60 years old, with his wife and four children, but the war, which has not yet ended, has left thousands of victims and left a lot of grief, pain, suffering, displacement and homelessness.

Yahya Saleh was forced to flee from the Bani Muadh area in the Sahar district of Saada governorate, which has been subjected to intense air raids, according to Hajj Yahya, since the middle of the year 2015. VII.

"Hajj Yahya" left everything behind and left for one of the shelters where the displaced gather in one of the schools in the Talh area in the same district, which lacks the most basic necessities for a decent living, only to find himself unemployed and suffering greatly to provide food and medicine for his family.

The school, which he took refuge with a number of families, was not completed before their displacement to it, and it was a building whose internal renovations had not been completed, and it lacked water and sanitation services, and the lack of windows and doors for the building.

What aggravated the suffering of the family of "Hajj Yahya", as it arrived in an unfamiliar place, and has nothing... no shelter, furniture, food, clothes, and nothing of the necessities of life. He and his family slept on the floor of a school with open doors and windows, except for a few worn-out carpets According to him.

The Foundation’s community committees in the Sahar district referred Yahya Saleh’s family and 16 other families who were residing in the same school to the community center for the displaced. In the school within the fourth and fifth installments that were disbursed during June and July 2021, each family received an amount of 120,000 riyals in addition to the payment of one case of shelter aid and one case of shelter aid to each family, benefiting 108 people, including 20 men, 25 women, 28 children, and 35 girls.

The shelter bag includes mattresses, blankets, a kitchen bag, a set of utensils, kitchen supplies and hygiene, and the shelter case contains the components of a tent with all its equipment.

The shelter, shelter and cash assistance obtained by "Hajj Yahya" will alleviate his suffering and protect him and his family.