The money, plus £5,000 donated by the British Red Cross’s Yemen Crisis Appeal, will pay for a reproductive health unit to open at a health centre in Hajjah, one of the Middle Eastern country’s poorest regions.
The Red Cross has supported the centre, which offers all services free of charge, since December 2015, and the £35,000 from the Island will support the new reproductive unit for the next nine months.
An obstetrician. a midwife and two nurses have already started work, and a therapeutic feeding centre for malnourished mothers and their children has also now opened.
