The King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid in Marib Governorate (northeastern Yemen) launched the distribution of emergency food and shelter aid to 687 displaced families affected by fires and climatic storms on Thursday, July 25, 2024.

Dr. Khaled Al-Shajhani, Deputy Director of the Executive Unit for Managing Displacement Camps, and Amin Al-Maqbool, Coordinator of the Non-Food Items Shelter Cluster in the governorate, received a briefing from Dr. Lufti Al-Ghabari, representative of the King Salman Center's office in Marib, and Mohsen Al-Hadrami, director of the implementing partner, the Coalition for Humanitarian Relief, on the components and quality of the aid provided. The aid includes 270 emergency shelter kits, 100 tents, and 618 emergency food baskets.

Dr. Al-Shajhani praised the King Salman Center's humanitarian role in various fields, noting that this aid will alleviate the suffering of the beneficiary families whose tents were destroyed by fires in displacement camps or severely damaged by climate change and strong winds that ripped through their shelters, leaving them exposed to the elements.

Al-Shajhani highlighted the widening gap between increasing humanitarian needs and the significant decline in humanitarian interventions by partners, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in various areas and increasing the burden on local authorities to respond to urgent needs that exceed their capabilities and resources.