Nour Hammad

Yusra… a countryside woman that beat her loneliness by having a sheep!

Rozana Bassam Abou Alnour, Intern in VHI Regional Office in Jordan, March 10, 2022

Yusra, the widow, lives with her brother and his wife, along with his mother and his 10 children, in a simple country house in Al Theraa’ village within the Hajjah Governorate in Yemen. The poverty within this family couldn’t help her achieve or even move forward in life after the death of her husband, especially after she turned 35 years old without any children. Her infertility made her life bitter and lonely.

She felt that she was a heavy burden on her brother and his family because his brother is a journeyman, who cannot find a job easily and continuously, so he accepted working at very low wages to handle his family expenses.

At the beginning of 2021, Vision Hope with the cooperation of the Solidarity Social Foundation for Development (SSFD ) in Hajjah Governorate, started the implementation of the Food Security and Agriculture (FSA) project within its borders. One of its activities was to provide for the unfortunate families in need with sheep and goats with their food to supply an income for these families. Also, with this gesture, the agriculture supervisors helped in establishing a system to raise agricultural awareness, educate, and guide all the beneficiaries in the project.

Yusra heard about the project and didn’t hesitate to apply to this golden opportunity to help support herself and her brother. She received one goat and shortly the goat conceived and gave birth to two twin goats. The milk produced, from the two goats after growing up, where enough to feed the small children, which gave Yusra the motherhood feeling towards providing for the young ones in her brother’s family.

Her story has just started right after the goats grew up and started producing more milk and wool that provided an income for the family and with the increased number of goats, it became a trading business. This changed her life upside down and made Yusra feel a lot of love and accomplishments from her family, filling up the void she has felt for a long time, She said to her brother:

I dream, one day I will have a flock of Goats”.

Yusra Ali Al tallhi
Al Theraa’ village within the Hajjah Governorate in Yemen
FSA Project

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Job announcements!

February 20, 2022

As our Rapid Response Mechanism project (RRM) is expanding, we are looking for new talents to join our VHI Community! Currently, we have two positions open:

  1. MEAL Officer in Yemen Country Office who will provide leadership and support in the development and operationalization of an M&E system for the RRM team.
  2. Data Entry Operator in Al Mahweet and Al Hodaidah in Yemen, who will collect and enter data in databases, and maintain accurate records of valuable Organization information.

How to Apply?

Check here for more information on the Terms of Reference and application process. Your contribution of time and skills helps someone find new hope for their future!

Al Mahweet, Yemen

Wessam… Between the love of study and the necessity of work

Sanaa, Yemen, January 18th, 2022

Wars always cause destruction and devastation in countries and trigger fear, poverty, and unrest among the people. Later, people lose their sources of income and are no longer able to meet their basic needs, not even food…!

Wessam Ibrahim, only nine-year-old, from Al-Hodeidah governorate, Yemen, was forced to drop out of school and look for work to take care of his mother and sisters after their father left them without returning. Ibrahim left behind his wife, three children, and his disabled father. This forced Wessam to leave school when he was still in the third grade of primary school to go to work with his slim body and return at the end of the day with 250 or 500 riyals, he says – no more than $1.

After being recorded and followed up by the project team for displaced families suffering from poverty, this family was monitored and targeted for help in the General Food Aid project. They were included in the beneficiary lists and received food aid every month.

The family got enough to eat and Wissam was able to go back to school and continue with his studies. The mother made no secret of her joy that Wessam was able to go back to school:

Vision Hope and the World Food Programme (WFP) have helped to meet our basic needs, protect my child from child labor and bring him joy when he was able to go back to school. Thank you Vision Hope and thank you World Food Programme”.

“Peace upon this Land”

November 22, 2021, Berlin, Germany

 

For six years, Yemen has been at war, which has led to unimaginably catastrophic conditions in the already impoverished country. There is not enough food for more than half of the people in Yemen. 1.8 million children are severely malnourished. Important infrastructure such as schools, hospitals and water supplies have been damaged or destroyed by years of heavy fighting.

Vision Hope has been active in Yemen since 2002 to alleviate extreme poverty and provide hope through humanitarian and development projects. Join our efforts in bringing hope to Yemen!

Thank you Lothar Kosse for this wonderful song raising awareness about the situation in Yemen and wishing peace for this country!

Join us in demonstrating to the people in Yemen, that they are not forgotten. Your donations help that the vision becomes true, that hope gets concrete: “May this soil burned by fire be a garden again, may you relish the fruits of your hand”!

Yemen in Berlin

November 20, 2021, Berlin, Germany

Art, handicraft, music, kids fashion show, food: Saturday, Nov 20, Yemen came to Berlin and you could feel it with all senses.
The Yemeni Day was organized by the Yemeni community in Germany. Vision Hope took part with a booth and our Program- and Network-Coordinator Stephan Kraemer presented about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and Vision Hope’s response: “Honey against Hunger”. How Honey brings Hope (and an income) to people in Yemen is explained by Ibrahim, who received training and equipment through Vision Hope and can now feed his family with the income.

Insights to The Yemeni Day

Eman, a bereaved mother who found hope between lines of pain!

Amman, Jordan, October 13, 2021

Eman Shdeifat, known as “Um Barjas” (Mother of Barjas) is a rural Jordanian woman living in Mafraq governorate. Eman used to wake up at 6:30 am, hurrying to get her three disabled children ready for school. She would prepare breakfast, school bags, and tidy clothes, making sure that everything is ready, and they start their day with energy.  

People used to call her sterile due to her delay in having the first child; according to the rural Arab community traditions, if a woman does not get pregnant in her first months, she has a problem. Eman gave birth after 3 years and called him “Barjas.” He was the favorite son of her among all of his brothers. He understood his mother from her eye contact without saying a single word. He was a compassionate and intelligent child, talented at football, who won four intelligence competitions when he was under the age of ten. 

In June of 2019, during a family summer vacation tragedy struck. Barjas, now 11 years old drowned in the sea. In an instant, the life of Eman and the whole remaining family was turned upside down. 

As time passed by, Eman’s husband tried repeatedly to help her to start leaving the house, start doing something new and get out from the mourning she lived in every day, but to no avail. However, during a pilgrimage trip with her husband, she met Mustafa Al-Shdifat, the director of a local non-profit association in Mafraq, called Jamiyaa Manshia Bani Hasan, also a local partner of Vision Hope.  

He invited her to the association and started involving her in the ongoing projects, such as extracurricular activities and home teaching classes. Here, hope began to sprout within her when she saw the eyes of the children look at her with expectation. Um Barjas decided to join the association and took the initiative of giving and loving the kids. 

After spending three months engaging with the projects of the association, Eman talked about her work and experience with Vision Hope in the Improved Educational Services and Integration project, funded by the German Government (BMZ*) and VHI. She said:

“Today, I am able to overcome my greatest tragedy that I faced and try to accept what happened to us.” 

The engagement with the project, the possibility to love and care for kids who need her help and support gave her new hope and perspective for life.

*BMZ (The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development)