Yemeni Humanitarian Organization Wins Nansen Refugee Award 2021

WHY IN THE NEWS?

• A humanitarian organization from Yemen has been declared as the winner of the 2021 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award.
• The organisation named “Jeel Albena Association for Humanitarian Development”, founded in 2017 by Ameen Jubran has won the prestigious honour to support and provide a lifeline to tens of thousands of Yemenis people displaced by the country’s conflict.
• The UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award honours individuals, groups or organizations for going above and beyond the call of duty to protect refugees, other displaced and stateless people.