Doing Good Things in the Desert

Last week, I had the very fortunate opportunity to participate directly in one of our community relations projects. In the local villages, schooling ends for students when they reach around 14 years of age. We have started a scholarship program whereby we would pay the tuition and living expenses for qualifying students to attend secondary schooling in one of the cities.

Being that Yemen is one of the more corrupt countries in the world, we need to be very careful when making any payments to individuals so that they are not construed as bribes. This is why I was involved, to verify that our payments were going directly into the hands of the students.

While in the village, we also toured through 2 different schools and handed out some soccer balls. It was a very good experience and incredibly humbling. The poverty is amazing. It was uplifting though to be a part of such a worthwhile project.