© New EuropeA Yemeni and his children at a camp for internally displaced persons.
It is also complicating an already difficult situation for thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa attempting to cross the country on the way to Saudi Arabia.
A high-ranking delegation from IOM earlier this month visited
Sana'a, Yemen to assess and support IOM Yemen's efforts to aid displaced Yemenis and migrants in the country.
Carmela Godeau, IOM's Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa based in Cairo, and Mohammed Abdiker, Director of IOM's Department of Operations and Emergencies, visited a settlement of displaced Yemenis in Sana'a and met local partners working with IOM to
provide health care and non-food items to help displaced families
cope with winter weather.The delegation also visited one of the
31 Child Friendly Spaces that IOM has opened in Yemen. These provide direct
assistance to displaced children. They aim to ease the stress and effects of the conflict on children, in addition to providing awareness-raising sessions and psychosocial support for
traumatized children. Other visits allowed the IOM delegation to see the work of an IOM
health clinic, which provides primary health care to displaced Yemenis and migrants, including
psychosocial support to those suffering from displacement and war traumas.
Meetings were organized with the IOM staff from Sana'a, Al Hudaydah and Aden, to further discuss the ongoing IOM work in 18 Yemeni governorates.
Consultations also took place with UN partner agencies including UNOCHA, UNHCR, UNDP and UNICEF, NGOs and the local authorities in Sana'a.
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