MR.Philip Dumail UNICEF’s resident Representative in Yemen visits Hodeidah port

 

On Thursday, 3/12/2020 AD, a delegation from UNICEF, led by Mr. Philip Dumail, UNICEF’s resident representative in Yemen, and his accompanying delegation visited the port of Hodeidah. And Mr. Jaber Al-Razhi, Director of the Supreme Council Branch for the Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and International Cooperation, where he briefed the visiting delegation on the navigation activity at Hodeidah Port and the process of unloading humanitarian aid from ships to berths.

 

The UNICEF Resident Representative in Yemen appreciated the great efforts made by the leadership of the Red Sea Ports Corporation, its employees and workers, to ensure the continuation of the operational process despite the scarcity of resources, stressing the organization’s readiness to provide all support to ensure the continued flow of food and relief and humanitarian goods to the corporation’s ports and reach the population.

 

And presided over the captain / Mohammed Abu Bakr Ishaq Chairman – Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation Visiting the meeting with the delegation , which reviewed the prominent role played by the Foundation ports in securing more than 70% of the sons of the Yemeni people ‘s needs of food, medicine and oil derivatives and material relief and humanitarian.

 

Said the captain / Isaac that we all love to stand against the aggression and siege on Yemen general and particularly to ensure that particular improve the process and speed up the arrival of the flow of supplies to the ports of the enterprise population and do not allow any force to use whatever starving children as a weapon.

 

Captain / Ishaq said that the aggression and siege on the Yemeni people has led to the emergence of the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world, according to United Nations reports and testimonies, as Yemen is on the brink of famine, and as a result of the aggression and blockade, hundreds of thousands of citizens have fallen due to diseases, fatal epidemics, malnutrition, and a decline in health services .

 

Captain / Isaac  called on the international community to take a serious stance in implementing the Stockholm Agreement as it is a humanitarian agreement mainly to spare Hudaydah governorate, its ports, and its inhabitants any hostilities and to ensure the flow of goods and medicine, because the countries of aggression are still killing children.

 

The captain / Ishaq said that since November 2017, container ships have been prevented from entering through which medicines and medical supplies are entered, and he stressed the necessity for the flow of commercial goods, which represent 90% of the needs of the Yemeni people, in addition to humanitarian aid that represents 10% of the total needs of the Yemeni people. This humanitarian aid will not be able to cover the needs, which will cause the biggest humanitarian catastrophe in the present era, and the efforts made by the international organizations will go unheeded and will appear powerless in the face of this situation.

 

The Chairman of the Board of Directors thanked the efforts made by UNICEF and all the UN organizations operating in Yemen, and said, after this visit, we look forward to making redoubled efforts to stop the siege and aggression against the Yemeni people.

 

For his part, the UNICEF Resident Representative in Yemen said that we are concerned about the great deterioration in the humanitarian situation in Yemen, and we will work together to save the children of Yemen. We will also work to expand the humanitarian response, especially in the field of childhood.

 

UNICEF began its work in Yemen in the seventies of the last century with the aim of meeting the needs of children, and it works in cooperation with local authorities, NGOs and community partners to provide the necessary assistance for children’s survival and their healthy growth through a number of programs, most notably: health, nutrition and water Sanitation, hygiene, basic education and child protection.

 

The meeting was attended by the general directors of the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation and the concerned authorities in the governorate