The British ambassador reveals new directions for his country in Yemen

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The British ambassador to Yemen, Michael Aron, stressed his country's interest in addressing the humanitarian situation and in supporting an end to the war under way in Yemen, as well as working through awareness and education to combat the phenomenon of child marriage.
This came during his meeting today in the Jordanian capital, Amman, with the Yemeni activist Nada Al-Ahdal, head of the Nada Foundation for the Protection of Children's Rights in Yemen, who discussed with him the areas of British support in combating child marriage in Yemen.
Al-Ahdal said that the British ambassador expressed his country's readiness to address cases of child marriage in Yemen by adopting projects for social awareness and the spread of girls' education, affirming his country's efforts to establish education centres in several areas of Yemen despite the dangerous security situation.
According to Nada Al-Ahdal, Ambassador Aron confirmed that a centre teaching girls English with British support will soon be established in the city of Mukalla in Hadramawt governorate, to be followed by other centres in Yemeni areas once security stability has been achieved there, noting that his country supports the efforts of the Yemeni government to meet the aspirations of the Yemeni people in all its groups and components.
It is worth noting that the activist Nada Al-Ahdal is one of the underage girls who were rescued from early marriage in 2013, when she was 11 years old at the time. She was nominated for the international children's Nobel prize for 2018 and 2019, and she has a book printed in French and Dutch. Through the Nada Foundation she has funded two projects: the first, Safe Havens, to help girls, and the second, Our Dreams Come True, to teach displaced girls in Yemen English, from the proceeds of her book, in which she told her story and which was printed in French, Dutch and other languages.