Local villagers in Yemen’s Usaylan district have described how life returned to normal after Project Masam cleared their areas of landmines.
Hussein Saleh Mubarak, a resident of Usaylan district, expressed his happiness and thanked Project Masam, which allowed the residents of his area to safely restore the water wells designated for drinking and agriculture after removing mines from and around these wells as well as securing them.
Another civilian, Nasser Saleh Hadi, stated that people in his area were unable to live normally because of fear and helplessness due to the presence of landmines, before the arrival of Project Masam’s demining team.
Hadi thanked Project Masam, which he claimed helped the displaced to return to their homes and farms to be become productive again, and provided them with security and livelihoods, after having securing them from potentially deadly explosive items that have prevented people from living in peace since the beginning of the conflict.
The spokesman for the army in Taiz Governorate, Colonel Abdul Basit Al-Bahr, commanded Project Masam for its humanitarian landmine clearance after it cleared swathes of land.
Villager Ahmed Mubarak, from the Al-Hajar Kutbah area, meanwhile, thanked Masam for the success of its humanitarian landmine clearance mission in Yemen, adding he believed that Project Masam brought life, hope and good to people across Yemen.
