TOGETHER WE CAN
HELP CHILDREN IN
YEMEN
TOGETHER WE CAN
HELP CHILDREN IN
YEMEN
Children are in need. Help us provide urgent relief.
- More than 12.2 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance.
- Today, nearly 1.2 million children live in active conflict zones in areas witnessing heavy violence.
- One in five schools are either damaged, destroyed or being used for shelter or military purposes.
- Almost two million children are acutely malnourished.
What UNICEF is doing in Yemen
UNICEF is on the ground to help as many children as we can, as quickly as possible. We are providing children caught in Yemen’s violent conflict with vaccines, clean water, sanitation facilities, emergency food, medicine and much needed medical kits.
We’re also working hard to keep children in school by giving incentives to more than 128,000 teachers who have not been paid for over two years and training teachers in how to counsel children whose lives have been ripped apart by war.
UNICEF airlifts COVID-19 testing kits to Yemen to boost response as cases soar. First batch of 10,000 COVID-19 tests arrived in Sana’a on a UNICEF-chartered plane, to increase the COVID-19 testing capacity amid the rapid increase of cases in Yemen. An additional shipment of 8,000 tests is expected to arrive in Aden in the coming days.
Results for children in Yemen In 2019, UNICEF and partners:
Helped 6.9 million people access emergency safe water
Treated more than 340,000 children for severe acute malnutrition
Reached 2.1 million people with mine rick education messages
Reached more than 620,000 children and caregivers with psychosocial support
Vaccinated 11.8 million children under 15 years against measles + rubella
