When water comes from improved sources, it is easier to access and reduces the time and effort that the poor spend collecting water, which can be used for productive activities instead. The Grameen Yemen Foundation works on water projects and community awareness in rural areas where clean water is scarce, with the aim of reducing the burden on poor families by digging surface and deep wells and providing water storage tanks and filtration systems to preserve and store water from pollution.
The Foundation contributes to providing safe drinking water by digging surface and deep wells to create a healthy environment and provide a decent life for poor families, reduce the burden on children looking for drinking water, encourage them to attend school, and economically empower women to build income-generating projects by obtaining more time to contribute to providing a decent living.
Intervention areas (21 villages)
Number of wells (21)
Number of beneficiaries (approximately 1,200 individuals)
Project cost (YER 8,100,000) - latest offer.
The Foundation aims to meet the needs of poor families by providing 500 and 1000-liter capacity tanks to preserve and store safe drinking water in a hygienic manner, eliminating improper water storage practices that expose it to microbes and diseases, negatively affecting public health and protecting them from infectious diseases that threaten their lives and environment. In addition, ceramic and bio-sand filters are distributed to filter and purify the water, making it safe for drinking and preserving the health of the poor.
Intervention areas (89 villages)
Number of distributed tanks (1,230)
Number of beneficiaries (approximately 6,150 individuals)
Project cost (YER 37,500,000)