Your gift provides food and cooking supplies for a family desperate for something to eat. The gift box includes brown flour, rice, sugar, oil, beans, salt, body soap, laundry soap, and feminine hygiene products.
Families in Yemen face a famine of dramatic proportions. Already devastated by war, poverty and disease, they need our assistance. Children are especially impacted – starving and frightened; they have little hope for the future.
Your gift today provides the food, hygiene and education a child and their family desperately needs.
• Only 55% of girls 15 and older are literate
• 29% of children are out of school, with up to 75% of schools destroyed
• 55 out of 1,000 children die before their 5th birthday
• 23% of children are engaged in child labor
• 54% of people live in poverty
• 1,600 children have been killed since the start of the conflict
(Information sourced from Save the Children)
"Yemen has long been one of the poorest countries of the Arab world, and this has been hugely exacerbated by civil war"