Saalah from Al-Taizia district in Taiz is a 39-year-old father of five. Like so many others, his family’s economic condition was badly affected by the ongoing war in Yemen.
Saalah lost his job and then was not able to send his children to school anymore, and so his life-long dream of sending them to college after secondary school faded away.
When the project’s external evaluator began to interview Saalah, his reaction was one of delight, to the point that he started to tear up as he described the difference that the food baskets made in the life of his family.
“Without your generous help, my children would be illiterate and their future life would be worse. I owe you a lot. I am ready to undergo any suffering in life, except to watch my children grow up without an education. I know my words are not enough to pay you back for what you have done for me, but I have nothing else to give except my words of gratitude and my prayer that God may bless you.”
