RIYADH — The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) has spent a total amount of $301,313,890 as part of the Kingdom’s support for the humanitarian response plan in Yemen for the year 2020. This was disclosed by Fahd Al-Osaimi, director of the Urgent Aid Department, in a press conference here on Thursday. He said that within the urgent aid programs, two projects worth $178 million were implemented in Yemen, and that was in partnership with the United Nations World Food Program in Yemen, benefiting 12,927,927 people. “There are also two other programs, the first was in partnership with the United Nations Refugee Agency in Yemen, with a value of $17 million and another in partnership with the International Organization for Migration, with a value of $10.5 million as these programs have helped more than 11 million beneficiaries,” he added. On her part, Director of the Community Support Department Dr. Hana Omar said that the projects that deal with supporting and advancing societies included several areas such as education, protection, improving livelihoods, agriculture and fisheries, which benefit more than 665,000 people, including children, women, and families. A representative of the Volunteering Department stated that it implemented three voluntary medical programs in Yemen during the year 2020 in various fields such as specialized surgery programs, anti-blindness programs, open-heart surgery, and interventional catheterization programs, with a total amount of $8,813,890. Addressing the press conference, Dr. Abdullah Al-Moallem, director of the Health and Environmental Aid Department, said: “We have provided four programs concerned with the health sector, in partnership with the country office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Yemen, amounting to $33.5 million, benefiting 23.3 million people, and two other programs with UNICEF at a value of $15.2 million, benefiting 22.5 million people, in addition to another executive program with the United Nations Refugee Agency, amounting to $3 million, benefiting more than three million people. Al-Moallem said the KSRelief also supported the Yemeni government through direct insurance in the health sector by spending $6 million. “In the nutrition sector, we implemented a program, in partnership with UNICEF, worth $7.6 million, benefiting 175,000 people, and another program with WHO, amounting to $5.5 million for about 50,000 beneficiaries." The water and environmental sanitation sector had a share of the programs and projects, and these included a program that was implemented in cooperation with WHO worth $7 million, benefiting 653,446 people and another program with UNICEF amounting to $9.2 million benefiting 2,500,000 people,” he added.