By: almotamar.net - SANA'A- Dr. Mohammed Al-Tareeqi, general supervisor of the Middle East Center for Human Development and Human Rights praised the democratic approach of Yemen's political leadership. He especially lauded its "forward looking vision of its people's future," as he commented.

At the concluding ceremony of the Saudi Arabia-based center's handicap care and rehabilitation program held yesterday in Sana'a, Al-Tareeqi described HE Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of the Republic, as the "Arab Democracy's man." He pointed out that the Yemeni government is "working from Yemen for the world, and working with the world for Yemen."

Al-Tareeqi reviewed the humanitarian reasons behind the opening an office for the center in Sana'a. he stressed that Yemen is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's companion in achieving the paramount goal of improving our peoples and eradicate illiteracy."
He added, "We are heading towards all that can improve the situation. Yemen is our indispensable partner especially under the endlessly unlimited support of the Arab democracy's man � President Ali Abdullah Saleh."

He said that the handicap care and rehabilitation and human rights program carried out in Yemen is a model of the desired homogony and linkage between NGOs and private sector.
Some 260 trainees, from 50 Yemeni NGOs, participated in the program organized by the center in collaboration with the International Help Organization and the Modern Science University.

International expert Ayid Al-Sultani, who took part in training the participants, told almotamar.net that the program included five main courses and nine workshops all of which aimed at enhancing the Yemeni personnel's abilities in terms of taking care and dealing with the handicaps as well as ways of human development and management of social and human rights establishment.

Berlin Saleh Al-Dhubri, a female participant from the Arab Human Rights Organization, said that she had benefited much as she could increase her knowledge on human rights, taking care of handicaps and running voluntary activities.