The five-year conflict in Yemen has affected almost the entire country. Al-Misrakh district in Taiz governorate has not escaped the pain of war – there is a critical lack of essential basic services, one of which is water and sanitation services.
Muhammad Abdullah is 41 years old, living in Al-Wajd village of Al-Misrakh district with his family of six. He says: “Because of the weakening economic situation as a result of the ongoing conflict and the lack of job opportunities, we were unable to build a safe bathroom. We used to have a dilapidated, exposed and unsafe bathroom. It was exposed and women couldn’t use it during daylight hours.”
In order to improve the situation, CARE intervened with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development and implemented a project to address water provision and environmental sanitation. One of the project’s activities was building and rehabilitating family bathrooms.
CARE supported 40 beneficiaries with the materials needed to build and rehabilitate the bathrooms. They excavated the cisterns at the required depths and flattened them, in addition to constructing and rehabilitating their bathrooms according to the CARE’s specifications and drawings.
