Yemen hunger crisis
A child needs your help now

Children and families on the brink of starvation.

Please give generously.

This morning, across the war-torn country of Yemen, children will wake up hungry. Again. It’s likely they’ll have little or no food today.

After four years of war, Yemen is close to collapse, and its people are on the brink of famine. Children who have survived air strikes and shelling now face starvation.

Children aged five and under are at greatest risk, and rates of severe acute malnutrition in Yemen are now among the highest in the world.

Throughout 2019, the World Food Programme has been delivering monthly food packages to more than 12 million people. These supplies of essentials, including flour and pulses, are keeping children alive.

The scale of the crisis means we’re now under increasing pressure. This Christmas, we urgently need your help to reach families who have been forgotten by the rest of the world.

Your gift today could help ship food into Yemen, where it will be distributed to those most in need – to families with young children, pregnant women and mothers who are breastfeeding, and children in schools.

All aid to Yemen, including from partner organisations, is delivered using World Food Programme aeroplanes and ships. We have built roads. We have negotiated with all parties involved to save as many lives as possible. Despite this, a child in Yemen dies every ten minutes from a preventable cause. Everything is ready – the food, the transport. We need your help to deliver it to children and families on the brink of starvation.