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Since the beginning of his human perseverance in Yemenis sectors, this project has given top priority to children and has been keen to strive to secure their lives and save them from deadly mines traps.
Where Masam secured hundreds of schools and enabled thousands of students to return to school, in an effort to reduce the occurrence of victims among Yemeni children, work was done to secure their homes, schools, pathways and fun places in several Yemeni Governorates.
Project Masam also contributed to alleviating the suffering of Yemeni children by enabling them to return to their homes after being forced by Houthi mines to flee, and in conjunction with this, the project continues its organized awareness campaigns in all Yemeni regions, in which it works to create community awareness of mines danger and not tampering them.
The project has also implemented many humanitarian initiatives to support the Yemeni children psychologically and morally and to convey a picture of their suffering to the world.
Mines have killed and maimed hundreds of children in Yemen, disrupted civilian life in affected areas, and pose a threat to civilians long after the conflict ends, as per the Yemeni Foreign Ministry the number of children killed by Houthi mines has reached 204 dead and 307 injured.
The exploitation of children by the Houthi militia and their use of planting mines is in addition to the serious violations committed by the Houthi militia against Yemeni children. Médecins Sans Frontières stated that, the majority of main victims of the deadly Houthi mines are children.
Amidst forests full of mines planted by the Houthi militia, Yemeni children die or injured at every step, there are thousands of victims whose cases have been documented by local and international institutions, who were killed or permanently disabled due to the Houthi mines.
As International Children’s Day comes, and the Yemeni children are living in horrific hell, as mines have created a catastrophic situation in Yemen, and the worst humanitarian crisis resulting in more than 12 million children in need of humanitarian aid.
This reality carried a lot to diversify in Masam commitment to the childhood of Yemen, as this project was implemented in conjunction with the International Children’s Day in Yemen, a humanitarian initiative targeting child victims of landmines in Ma’arib Governorate.
According to Masam Media Office, this initiative aims to support children psychologically, to plant the lost joy due to disability, and to convey to the world an image of the magnitude of suffering experienced by Yemeni children due to militia mines.
The initiative included the distribution of winter bags for dozens of children mine victims in Ma’rib Governorate, as well as the production of a documentary film on the multiple crimes committed by mines against Yemeni children.