Children in Yemen are struggling to survive

The situation in Yemen is desperate. Faced with years of ongoing conflict, poverty, and hunger, many of Yemen's children are struggling to survive. Every 10 minutes, a child dies in Yemen from preventable causes, like disease and malnutrition. They cannot survive this crisis alone, and they cannot wait. Please donate today, and help us reach children with critical supplies and life-saving food, before it's too late. 

Yemen’s children are fighting to survive

Half of the children in Yemen under the age of 5 are suffering from acute malnutrition, and they need urgent help. UNICEF is working on the ground to screen children, provide life-saving therapeutic food, and ensure health care and medical treatment to help children recover. With so many families facing displacement and poverty, UNICEF is also working to ensure humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable. 

Yemen Malnutrition 2022

Help children in Yemen with therapeutic food

In Yemen 2.3 million children are suffering from acute malnutrition, and this miracle food has helped save millions of children's lives worldwide. Ready-to-use therapeutic food is a small sachet (92g) that costs less than $1 and it can mean the difference between life and death. These sachets are packed with high-energy nutrients that children need to start to recover from malnutrition, and they can be eaten immediately so there is no risk of unsafe water or preparation. With deliveries of therapeutic food, UNICEF can help to save lives, every day. 

With a donation of just $100, you can help provide 300 sachets of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food for malnourished children. Please give what you can, and donate online now.

7-month-old Imetanan Taha receives therapeutic food to help her fight malnourishment. © UNICEF/UN0456884/Abaidi
7-month-old Imetanan Taha receives therapeutic food to help her fight malnourishment. 
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Maram Adel Yahya is being fed with therapeutic food (RUTF) at a mobile clinic. © UNICEF/UN0582347/UNICEF/YPN
Maram Adel Yahya is being fed with therapeutic food (RUTF) at a mobile clinic.
© UNICEF/UN0582347/UNICEF/YPN

Give today to support UNICEF in Yemen

  • Your donation will help UNICEF to continue to screen millions of children and support treatments in UNICEF-supported clinics. Our work to help save lives begins with prevention and screening, for which we have a very simple but effective tool: MUAC tapes (mid-upper arm circumference).

  • Your donation will help children can get life-saving therapeutic food before it’s too late. More than 270,000 children have been submitted to outpatient treatment programs across the country with therapeutic food to help fight malnutrition.

  • Your donation ensures that children continue to get access to life-saving health care and vaccinations to fight against preventable diseases. UNICEF supports children at over 4,400 outpatient health facilities and multiple vaccine initiatives.

Osamah Amaar, 11, and Hanan Abdo, 32, are displaced from Al Hudaydah and live in Ash-Sha’ab IDP Camp, in Yemen. They just received an RRM kit.

UNICEF is working on the ground to get life-saving supplies to the most vulnerable 

Community health workers roving the neighborhoods to vaccinate children in Gail bin Yumain in Al Mukalla, Yemen.

Community health workers in Yemen going door to door in neighborhoods to vaccinate children.

Disclaimer: Please note that the stories of children mentioned are to illustrate activities and the change that your donation can make to the lives of vulnerable children. UNICEF, based on the need on the ground, will allocate resources to areas that need funds the most.