Aden, August 23, 2021, SPA -- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said its partnership with the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has contributed to improving protection services provided to the most vulnerable women and girls in Yemen. UNFPA said in a statement that KSrelief has provided generous support for protection services to reduce gender-based violence, benefiting more than 65,000 women and girls in Yemen since the beginning of 2021, adding that so far 30,000 individuals have attended awareness sessions in addition to training 800 battered women facing violence on livelihood skills, and providing cash assistance to more than 200 women in need while supporting eight shelters in nine Yemeni governorates. The statement stressed that the partnership between the KSrelief and the UNFPA in Yemen since 2015 has helped provide reproductive health and protection services to hundreds of thousands of Yemeni women and girls. --SPA 18:42 LOCAL TIME 15:42 GMT 0021 www.spa.gov.sa/w1607235