PHOTO: ASMA HAMDI
Why did you set up Yemen Noor Foundation for Education and Relief?
YENOF is the result of more than 21 years of charitable work. We used to be called YERO (Yemen Education and Relief Organisation) and started in April 2003 in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. I set up the organisation for many reasons; one of them was seeing children in the streets and not at school, with their mothers selling items or begging or washing cars. I felt sad for them and still it upsets me, especially when I ask a young boy or girl, ‘Why are you not at school? ’The answer always is, ‘I have to help my family and my younger brothers and sisters with the living expenses because my father is dead or sick and cannot work’. That made me think of helping the families, the parents first, because they are the main reason the children are in the street. I thought if I want to help the child, I have to help the family.
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