The free bakery. A project that provides bread to more than 1,500 displaced families in Al-Jufina camp in Marib on a daily basis

 “We feel enough, and it fulfills the purpose,” Hajj Mohammed Jahouri, a camp resident with special needs, began talking about what the free oven offers in al-Jufina camp in Yemen’s Marib governorate.

Hajj Mohammed Hajouri, 64, said, “The suffering experienced by displaced families is indescribable, especially families with special needs, who lack the minimum basic requirements and have lost hopes as a result of their inability to work and provide for their families’ needs of food.”

Access to bread along with basic necessities was one of the challenges facing Haj Mohammed Hajouri and many families in displacement camps in Yemen, especially with the low living conditions, the continued economic deterioration in the country, and the inability of many to provide for the necessary needs of their families. 

In order to alleviate the suffering of displaced families in displacement camps, and within the framework of the humanitarian and relief efforts that the Coalition of Relief and Building (CRB) is interested in in providing relief and assistance to the needy in various Yemeni regions, the Forum established a free oven in Al-Jufina camp in Marib Governorate, with generous funding from Abu Muhammad, to help the displaced and provide part of their needs.  

The bread distribution project is one of the forum’s projects in providing food and livelihoods, through which it seeks to meet the growing needs of poor families in the Jufina area of Marib governorate, by providing bread in a sustainable manner, to contribute to ensuring the provision of basic basic meals for displaced people and poor families.

The free oven provides bread to 1,500 families from the poorest residents of the camp and various social groups, which is home to the largest concentration of displaced people in Yemen, and has more than 10 delegates (distribution point) in various sectors of the camp.

The bakery consumes more than 22 bags of flour (1,100 kilograms) per day, and employs more than 20 workers, as a result of the difficult and harsh living conditions experienced by the displaced in light of the worsening economic situation, and the continuation of the war in the country.

Hajj “Mohammed” repeats his speech, praising the Coalition of Relief and Building, for its projects that touch the conditions of the displaced and meet their needs, by saying: “The forum has remarkable fingerprints in the displacement camps,” stressing that what he gets from the free bakery is tantamount to restoring the soul to the body of his family, which was suffering from woes, due to their living and material situation, “as Haj Muhammad is a person with special needs, and is unable to move and work.

Fatima Masoud, a widow with four children, a displaced woman in Jufina camp and one of the beneficiaries of the free oven project, also delights with the arrival of every morning when she receives her share of the bread provided by the free bakery to the displaced.

Fatima Mohammed, 37, says the free bakery has helped alleviate her suffering for years and helped her feed her children by providing them with bread. She explained that the bakery provides her with what she used to have difficulty reaching in light of the difficult situation she is living as a result of the loss of her husband and her responsibility to support her children.

Fatima added, “She is in a better position than before, after securing her needs and the needs of her dependent children from bread, continuously and sustainably.”

The free bakery is one of the projects implemented by the Relief and Building Forum  (CRB), within the food security and livelihood projects, calling on everyone to cooperate with and support the free oven in order to include good and help the largest number of displaced people and the poorest families in the city crowded with displaced people.