SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has been awarded nearly $900,000 by the United States of Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) to continue assisting displaced persons through ADRA’s Yemen Emergency Support (YES) Project.

The additional funding comes a year after the project’s launch in February 2010, and will further enable ADRA to expand the project’s programs to reach a greater number of internally displaced persons (IDP’s) in the Al Jawf Governorate.

ADRA's response is targeting more than 300 families, or approximately 2,000 people, within the affected areas, located approximately three hours north of the capital city of Sana'a in the Al-Jawf Governorate, an area where no other United Nations (UN) agencies