Deputy Governor of Marib Abd-Rabbu Miftah launched a handicraft training program for the widows and orphaned girls of soldiers martyred while fighting the Houthi theocratic militia in Marib and Aljawf.

Financed by the Saudi aid agency KSrelief and implemented by Different Academy for Training, the program equips the women with alternative livelihood skills from tailoring, to pastry baking, making frankincense, phototaking, and photomontage. The duration of each of the four courses of the program will range from 20 to 50 days.