King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) Signs Joint Statement with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office for Project to Expand Cholera Response in Yemen

 Today, His Excellency Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah, Advisor to the Royal Court and Supervisor General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), and Baroness Jenny Chapman, Minister of State for International Development at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), signed a joint statement in London. The 28 April 2025 statement pertains to a project to expand the cholera response across Yemen, benefiting 3.5 million individuals, and was signed during His Excellency’s current visit to the United Kingdom.

KSrelief will provide USD 5 million to the World Health Organization (WHO), while the British side will provide USD 5 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

The joint statement aims to formalize WHO and UNICEF support for emergency cholera response in Yemen. As part of this joint response, UNICEF and WHO will implement several interventions to reduce the spread of cholera and acute watery diarrhea in the most affected provinces of Yemen.

KSrelief’s financial support to WHO will enable the provision of key interventions for a multi-sectoral cholera outbreak response, including leadership and coordination, surveillance and laboratories, rapid response teams, case management, infection prevention and control, water, sanitation and hygiene, risk communication, community engagement and social mobilization, as well as oral cholera vaccines.

The UK ministry’s financial support to UNICEF will be directed toward water, sanitation, and hygiene, alongside health activities in the most contaminated and high-risk geographic areas.

This initiative comes as part of the relief and humanitarian efforts provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through its humanitarian arm KSrelief, to support affected and vulnerable groups in Yemen and to enhance the health services provided to the Yemeni people.