Due to the ongoing war in Yemen, civilians are struggling to survive, forced to choose between food and other necessities such as electricity, water and medicine. Almost 25 million people are facing starvation and many of them are children. The people of Yemen are experiencing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises in history. The conflict between a Saudi-led coalition of Gulf countries and the Government of Yemen against the Ansar-Allah movement (known as the Houthis), which escalated in March 2015, has so caused 10.000s of civilian deaths. Nearly four million people have been forced to flee their homes.
15 million need water and sanitation support:
Millions of people are in need of support to access safe water and sanitation. Of these, 8.7 million are in acute need.
More than 6 years of war and siege have left Yemen’s roads impassable and have turned its hospitals and clinics to rubble, a ruinous blockade of Yemen’s ports has depleted the country’s supplies of life-saving medicine. Since war broke out in Yemen, around 400,000 children under 5 years of age are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. The children of Yemen have suffered for too long, living in horrible conditions. The country’s economy has been shattered. Countless homes, warehouses, farms and vital parts of civilian infrastructure have been destroyed. The flow of food – nearly 90 percent of which had to be imported even before the conflict started – has been massively disrupted by the warring parties. Prices are continuing to rise, while many of the poorest people have lost their incomes. We need to do something to save the new generation.
Read more:
http://marklubbers.com/why-yemen-needs-your-help-today/
Fundraiser:
https://gogetfunding.com/emergency-appeal-to-fight-famine-in-yemen-3/