Within YHF#17900 Project, which is a comprehensive project of Water and Sanitation for IDPs and Hosting Communities in Marib city, Marib governorate, Qatabah and Alhusha, Aldhale’e governorate, funded
by Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF) and implemented by Yemeni Family Care Association (YFCA) and under the framework of durable provision, rehabilitation and maintenance of water supplying systems for affected population, cleaning campaigns are conducted in Qa’tabah at IDP sites and the city streets, and neighborhoods.
YFCA Intervention is located in Qa’tabah district, Al-Dhalee Governorate in which a lot of residents are very poor and a large proportion of them are IDPs. people in this area don’t have enough consideration of the importance of hygiene, and due to the lack of solid waste management systems in the place, the community collects the waste in an open area which leads to spread diseases among the community members such as cholera, malaria for both host community and IDPs. So, YFCA pushed to raise the awareness of people around hygiene. Besides, the cleaning campaigns intervention which is highly needed to collect the previously dumped heaps of garbage in the area helped people to stay healthy. Initial cleaning and collection of garbage has been performed manually following the devised action plan, and new garbage collection points have also installed following the needs of the residents.
This activity aims to implement 21 cleaning campaigns in Qa’tabah District, Al Dhalee Governorate, at a rate of three to four campaigns per month by 20 cleaners to create a clean environment through removing the accumulated waste that may cause diseases outbreak in the targeted area. Moreover, twelve campaigns has been fulfilled till the end of September.
The hygiene cleaning campaigns activity was launched with the participation of the director of the district and the Director of the Cleaning and Improvement Fund with the observation of YFCA team. Moreover, YFCA provided equipment and supplies to the cleaning fund to manage solid and liquid waste to establishing a long-term sustainable environmental system.
