Women’s Authority launches “Ramadan Vegetables from Your Home” campaign in Amanat Al-Asimah

The Women's Authority and the Small Projects Unit in the capital secretariat launched the 'Ramadan Vegetables from Your Home' campaign in coordination with the Agricultural and Fish Production Promotion Fund. The campaign, which covers four thousand and 164 families in all the municipality's districts and continues until the end of the holy month of Ramadan, aims to raise the level of awareness among families and activate home agriculture to achieve sustainable development. The Small Projects Unit explained in a statement, a copy of which was received by Saba, that the campaign comes within its efforts to improve the livelihoods of families through developing resources with the participation of women in order to achieve self-sufficiency and a decent life. He stated that the unit implemented training workshops and women's councils for four thousand and 164 women in the month of Rajab, two centers for memorizing the Holy Qur'an, and 23 schools, and the number is still increasing, indicating that the number o f female trainers participating in the campaign is 60, and it also launched several initiatives in support of the campaign in all districts. The statement indicated that the campaign works to change the attitudes and behaviors of families affected by the culture of dependence and purchasing, to self-reliance, providing food security, improving livelihoods, consolidating the Yemeni agricultural faith identity, and addressing the phenomena of poverty and unemployment. In order to decorate the roofs of houses and schoolyards by growing healthy vegetables free of pollutants and fertilizers to achieve self-sufficiency in the holy month of Ramadan. Source: Yemen News Agency