Introduction:

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) is implementing the Yemen Appeal for the Rehabilitation of Child Soldiers and Conflict-Affected Children Project. This is a unique Saudi humanitarian project, launched in Ma'rib Governorate in September 2017. The project focuses on rehabilitating child soldiers and conflict-affected children, returning them to normal lives, and providing them with social support.

Overall objective:

To reintegrate children affected by armed conflict into society.

Sub-objective:

Targeted Children:
Reintegrating targeted children into society with their normal peers through:
- Providing safe shelter, psychosocial, health, and educational support, and returning them to school and monitoring their progress.
- Developing the targeted children's capacities, talents, and social participation.

Children's Parents:
- Economic empowerment and providing professional tools.
- Providing awareness and educational courses to introduce children's rights, laws criminalizing child recruitment and involvement in armed conflict, and the resulting impact on children.

Raising Community Awareness:
- Establishing community committees responsible for monitoring and reporting child protection.
- Training and qualifying community committee members to disseminate awareness of children's rights in society, working to protect them, and raising awareness of the crime of child recruitment and involvement in armed conflict.

Project Launch:

The Child Rehabilitation Project was launched on Saturday, September 9, 2017, and is still ongoing.