Improving Health, Opening Minds, Enriching Lives
Working with Yemenis to build a better life for the marginalized
December, 2009

The 6,000 individuals who live in a tightly packed shantytown in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a were extremely limited in their access to healthcare.  That changed in 2005 when Millennium enlisted the help of the British Embassy, the Sana’a Ministry of Health, and a Street Sweeper Association to begin a three year healthp roject in this downtrodden area. 

Millennium and its partners opened a small clinic and pharmacy right in the center of the slum. Local doctors staff the clinic, while MRDS medical and community development specialists have trained and equipped community health workers to man the front lines of health care in the shantytown.

 In 2007 the project was extended to a second site in Sana’a – also a street sweeper slum.  This time, in addition to the community health teaching project, clinic and pharmacy, this second project has been more ambitious, working with the local community in different ways.