Netherlands grants Yemen's basic education $ 15 million

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.