[22 November 2008]

SANA'A, Nov. 22 (Saba)-Social Development Fund and Dutch government signed on Saturday funding treaty worth $ 15 million for supporting Yemen's education center.

Upon the treaty, which was signed by the fund's Executive Director Abdul-Karim al-Arhabi and vice Dutch ambassador in Yemen, the government of Netherlands grants Yemen funding grant worth $ 15 million for improving and expanding basic and secondary education on the basis of the fund's middle-ranged viewpoints extends to late of 2010.

Al-Arhabi highlighted keenness of Dutch government in supporting and enforcing Yemeni government's efforts aiming at improving development's capabilities, especially those fields related to education.

For her part, the Dutch official considered the grant as part of donors' support to contributions of the fund in all development's sectors.


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