In 2017, the diesel-powered water project in Mahal Rahmah village, in Az-Zaydiyah District in Hudaydah Governorate, was barely able to supply water to nearly 1,000 local residents in three neighboring villages (Mahal Rahmah, Deir Al-Mahdali and Mahal Kalfood) in the district, let alone have capacity for the large influx of IDPs uprooted by the raging conflict at the time.

But after All Girls Foundation for Development (AGF) intervened back then to rehabilitate the Mahal Rahmah water project and build the capacity of the local management committee, with funds from the Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF), the host and displaced people could easily access water while the management committee could save the nominal subscription fees over the years to fund other water projects in Deir Al-Mahdali and Mahal Kalfood, as well as Mahal Rahmah itself.

AGF’s rehabilitation activities for the Mahal Rahma water project included the following:

• Providing the water project with a solar-powered pumping unit, including all the necessary components such as pipes which had been added for the purpose of expanding the network in the area to cover all houses in places of high density in the local communities and those houses and IDPs collective sites at the outskirts of the targeted area.

• Implementing of 20 water points in suitable places that guarantee easy and fair distribution of water to IDPs.

Now, seven years after AGF has intervened in the area, each of these three villages has its own water project. The AGF’s intervention in 2017 came as part of a “life-saving integrated intervention services” project, which included WASH, Shelter, Health and Protection services. The project’s total beneficiaries amounted to 55,507 host and displaced people in Az-Zaydiyah District.

It is noteworthy that AGF has also implemented a WASH project in the same district of AzZaydiyah and the same year. This project, which was entitled “WASH and Protection”, was nominated in 2023 for the Energy Globe Award– ‘today’s most prestigious environmental award, given annually to projects saving our environment by personal action, sustainable projects or campaigns for raising awareness in sustainability.’

All Girls Foundation for Development (AGF) is an award-winning and woman-led organization, which was established in the city of Sana'a, the capital of Yemen in 2003. It carries a development vision and a human dimension that change is the people and the people are the change! This vision appears in a diverse series of integrated projects implemented in the past two decade. AGF has positively affected the lives of thousands of young people and women, by implementing educational, economic, empowerment and reproductive health programs and providing humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of vulnerable Yemenis in need, especially women and girls.