Al-Makhader, Ibb: Training the assistance committee on the standards of World Food Program (WFP)

Tuesday, 23 April, 2019
Al-Makhader, Ibb: Training the assistance committee on the standards of World Food Program (WFP)

Tamdeen Youth Foundation (TYF) held a special training workshop for the Food Aid Committee in Al-Makhader district, Ibb governorate, within the framework of GFD project, implemented by the Foundation since February and funded by World Food Program (WFP),  during which the Committee was informed about the new standards of the World Food Program (WFP) to reach  vulnerable groups suffering from food insecurity and malnutrition in order to achieve the strategy of the program in Yemen 2019- 2020  which aimed at saving Yemenis from famine, and put an end to malnutrition, especially in pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under the age of five. The workshop also included informing the Food Aid Committee on its tasks during the coming period to be ready  for the new survey of the vulnerable groups which requires distribution of tasks and formation of committees at the level of villages and sub-districts to register the targeted in the district according to the new standards of the World Food Program (WFP): (families suffering from acute malnutrition, child-headed families, widowed-headed families, families living in public camps, displaced families living with parents and relatives, families from economically marginalized groups “marginalized”, families  without sources of income and lack of daily income, families with special needs and  families headed by the elderly). At the end of the workshop, the Committee members were divided into three teams to supervise the committee formation in the district’s villages and sub-districts. The World Food Program’s representative and interested local authorities’ representatives attended the workshop.  Finally, it should be noted that Tamdeen Youth Foundation implements current projects in the field of food security and treatment of malnutrition in more than one governorate