YEMEN CRISIS
Yemen has been facing a humanitarian crisis for ten years, as a result of the prolonged armed conflict, which has exacerbated the already dire economic situation and led to widespread disruptions of vital public services and institutions. The conflict has caused significant loss of life and injury, displacing 4.8 million people, leaving more than 19 million in need of assistance, destroying livelihoods, and eroding the population’s resilience.
Homes have been destroyed, families displaced, and schools and hospitals reduced to rubble. The lives of millions of Yemenis have been changed forever. A ten-year-old child in Yemen will have known nothing but war.
Today, 10.8 million children urgently need life-saving assistance for food, clean water, healthcare, and education. Nearly half of all children under the age of five—approximately 2.3 million children—are acutely malnourished.
The crisis is far from over.
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We must keep working together to reach children with critical support in Yemen and protect and empower the country’s next generation. With your generous support, Save the Children’s workers deliver lifesaving aid, protection and education to give children the childhood they deserve, wherever they are.
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Reem*, 8 months, is a malnourished child in Taiz, Yemen. She receives treatment at a Save the Children centre. The centre where she receives treatment is due to be closed by the end of March 2025 due to the foreign aid cuts. Reem* continues to improve after filming this content and before publishing. AL-BARAA MANSOOR/ Save the Children
Save the Children in Yemen
Save the Children has been working in Yemen for over 60 years (since 1963). Save the Children works to ensure Yemeni children survive, learn, and thrive by delivering life-saving health and nutrition services, promoting safe and inclusive education, protecting children from violence, and building resilient families and communities through sustainable livelihoods and infrastructure support. Working with partners, we aim to realize children’s rights at scale, improve equity and empower children.
Up until early 2025, Save the Children was Yemen’s largest international NGO working across 13 governorates. In 2024, our programme reached over 2.3 million people with essential support and services including over 1.5 million children. Since the start of the conflict in 2015, Save the Children has supported over 11,700,000 individuals across the country.
