The Yemeni woman .. the Lady of sadness .. the survival cause!
YemenExtra
Y.A
Written by – Naseem AL-Rada’a
Three years of bombardment by Saudi-led coalition have killed more than 35,415 victims of men, women and children and destroyed life’s basics in Yemen that classifies the woman as “mother of patience, woman of sorrow and survival cause”.
According to official statistics, 13,603 people were killed, including more than 2,000 dead and 2,233 wounded, women, who are afraid of their wounds and illness that would make them unable to serve their families .
The Yemeni News Agency (Saba) reported on the steadfastness of Yemeni woman that represents in the population distribution in Yemen 49.6% of the total population of 198826 according to the population projection for 2011 , in which the males represent 50.4% of the total population .
The Yemeni woman influenced her family with her steadfastness in the face of the Saudi-led coalition after she have borne the burdens of living to provide a loaf as Yemen rolled from the classification of poor countries to the poorest countries due to destroying its infrastructure .
Secure the dream …!
Amal’s mother started making cake and sweats , then selling them in any store as her son sold some on the street to afford his study’s fees .The mother did her best to to explain her idea that she did her father’s help wasn’t enough to the end of the month because her husband suffers from a psychiatric illness , so she insisted to invest her skill in making sweets to support her five children, especially her eldest daughter who needed a double expense for the price of a lieutenant and the university textbooks , but her career provides her with a daily income between 1000 and 2000 riyals, which is not enough but better than nothing .
The ideas of small projects are crowded in social networking sites that ranged from the opportunities of marketing sales of cosmetics and accessories to the courses of makeup and hairdressing to the opportunities of self-development and the search for quick profit projects to open doors of hope for the Yemeni woman.
The profit was what forced (Randa) to communicate with all her friends to establish a small project that cost more than (60 thousand riyals) because its profit was secure and daily to support her family after due to the absence of the head of the family suddenly and her failure to invest the idea of making the pastry and sweets after she enrolled in training course that cost 15 thousand riyals , whereas she justified its failure to sell desserts that (easy projects are better than projects of losses ).
The Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes and blockade have been strained the Yemeni economy, which is described as “deteriorating”. Yemen is classified as one of the poorest countries in the world, whose population lives on less than a dollar a day, according to the United Nations Development Report of international poverty , above all poverty reached more than 18 million Yemenis who live under the poverty line and fight hunger because of the Saudi-led coalition’s war against Yemen and surrounded Yemen by air, land and sea, followed by Afghanistan and the Central African Republic.
According to the Institute of Legatum in London on the indicators of prosperity , poverty , hunger and misery , Yemen is on the top of the list of 19 countries (the most miserable) and the poor Yemenis’ rate raised to 80% due to the war .
According to a World Bank report damages which caused the infrastructure by the coalition’s war estimated between 4 and 5 billion dollars, pointing out that the humanitarian needs exceeded one billion dollars as a result of the continued Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes and blockade.
Attack of poverty ..
The Yemeni woman has borne the burden of the destruction and the siege of Saudi – led coalition’s airstrikes and blockade and has been afraid of the attack of poverty on her family which forced the working woman to find any job , says Mrs. Ahlam, a mathematics’ teacher .”She turned to find a suitable job after the deterioration of the educational process and had to volunteer in one of the Charitable organizations that distribute humanitarian aid in exchange for a transportation allowance (and a volunteer certificate) that may help her to work in any company that requires experience.”
(Protect rights and save lives) ..
Human Rights Watch, which defends human rights in 99 countries around the world, says that the war on Yemen is going on relentlessly after the economic deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Yemen has been forgotten , when the blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition on imports aggravate the difficult humanitarian situation, delay the transfer of fuel tankers, close important ports and prevent goods from entering sea ports.
The war produced the greatest humanitarian disaster made by “humans” in a country far from the world’s concerns, it added. While, the UNICEF said that 80% of Yemeni families were forced to sell their possessions to afford daily food, whereas most of the families resort to borrow the food’s expense every day.ا
A Jewelry’s store’s owner confirmed that the sale of gold is “active” as women flock daily to sell their jewelry whatever the price and that sometimes he used to advise women not to sell her gold in light of the unstable exchange rate of the dollar against the riyal, where it is expected that the price of one gram of gold, by the end of this year, will worth thirty thousand riyals, which means a great loss for women who sold their gold to achieve temporary financially stability was certain.
Amal confirms that she sold all her possessions to afford her children’s food, rent and other basics that forced her to sell to get her unemployed husband rid of those who lent him money earlier, so that they would stop chasing him “
While Elham’s mother sold all her gold in search of a small project but did not succeed in achieving her hope due to the weakness of the purchasing power of the people who were enough with buying the basics , especially that her project was an entertainment project , a place for the Games (Plastation) ,which was visited by a small number of people and many children who were satisfied with contemplating the championships of the big players in the screens of imaginary conflict..
Static steadiness ..
Abdul-Hakim Al-Azraq described to Saba the steadfastness of the woman as “legendary”, whereas she represented a strong bond and support for her partner in this difficult stage and began her steadfastness first with her unlimited patience over the harsh conditions experienced by her partner and abandoning many of the requirements. ;In addition, she sold everything in order to meet some of the needs and requirements of the family.
He also pointed to the insistence of the wife to learn some professions and crafts, income-generating ,to provide some of the basic requirements from the income of sewing and embroidery of women’s fabrics and the making of perfumes and cosmetics.
Above all, he feels sad when he sees his partner suffering and sharing responsibility without any complaint.
Ahmed Bad Whelan explains that the partnership between men and women is based on the divine mandate, without decreasing the value of one of them. The decline in the view of some men in the amount of partnership and its importance is the result of shortcomings that must be avoided.
The woman deserves sanctity, respect and prestige because she is one of the partners, and the wife should be respected ,and her right should be recognized in partnership without prejudice, considering that the return now to the talk of partnership and sharing concerns is back to the nature of the original life on which humanity was founded since the creation ,and it isn’t the result of evolution as claimed by defenders of women’s rights.
The attempts of the woman in assistance are matched by a concerted effort from her partner to seek a job that relieves him of the society’s blame – unemployed- so he looked for a job’s opportunity to try to travel and use his practical experience as an engineer. Then, he got ready to travel , but the first station was in (Sayoon) , where he got surprised that the trip was postponed two weeks and his vacation would end within a week ,so he tried to travel through any outlet, but his journey was faltered ,and his dreams were collapsed ,too, as a result he suffered from a heart attack , so he was sent to the hospital ; therfore, his wife ignored the promises of the dream and shortened them to wishes of her husband’s recovery .
