Locsin pledges $100K for Yemen
FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. yesterday pledged to give USD100,000 (about P5.22 million) to the Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF).
Locsin, on his Twitter account said “I am pledging in 2022, as I did in 2021, US$100,000 to the Yemen Humanitarian Fund to be sourced from our International Commitments Fund. The human situation of the proxy war in Yemen long ago reached unspeakable depths. Money cannot be better spent than to this cause.”
In 2021, the Philippines was among the 24 donor countries that supported the YHF.
Yemen was plunged into conflict in 2014 when the Iranian-backed Houthi militia took over Sana’a and eventually declared control over the country.
With some 20.7 million people in need of assistance or protection, the United Nations dubbed Yemen “one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises”.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Yemen’s situation, primarily driven by conflict and economic collapse, was further exacerbated by the pandemic, flooding, and escalating hostilities,
The UN added with an estimated 4 million internally displaced people, Yemen remains as “the fourth largest displacement crisis” in the world.
