Yemen

Yemen Malnutrition Project

Yemen Demands Immediate Action

Yemen Malnutrition Project

Yemen Demands Immediate Action

Yemen’s ongoing humanitarian crisis continues to pose severe challenges, particularly in health, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), and nutrition. As of 2024, around 18.2 million people are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.

The healthcare system is critically strained, with only 50% of hospitals fully or partially operational. The WASH situation is equally dire, with 27% of the population lacking access to safe water and 49% facing water scarcity.

Nutritional needs are alarming, with 2.7 million pregnant and lactating women and 5 million children under five requiring treatment for acute malnutrition.

The combined effects of inadequate health services, poor WASH infrastructure, and widespread malnutrition highlight the urgent need for comprehensive and sustained humanitarian intervention in Yemen.

How UMR is Making a Difference

UMR is actively working in Yemen to address these critical needs by providing essential medical services in five health facilities across Taiz, Lahj, Aden, and Al-Hodeidah, targeting over 50,000 people. Our services include:

Primary Healthcare: Offering consultations and treatment for various health conditions.
Maternal Care: Providing medical services for mothers, including pregnant and lactating women (non-surgical).
Malnutrition Treatment: Addressing the needs of malnourished children and mothers.
Operational Support: Assisting health facilities in maintaining and improving their operations.
Medical Supplies: Supplying essential medicines and medical equipment.

UMR’s efforts are focused on delivering sustainable solutions and immediate relief, ensuring that the people of Yemen receive the care and support they urgently need.

Refugees

Yemen also hosts an extremely high number of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people; as of 2021, over 20 million people are in need, over 12 million are in acute need, and an estimated 4 million, who are overwhelmingly women and children, are displaced.

A study commissioned by UNDP found that Yemen’s civil war has already reversed 21 years worth of development gains made; if the war continues through 2030, the damage would be equivalent to four decades of development work.

Key Issues

Through our infrastructure programs, relief work and community building efforts, we hope to create long lasting, sustainable change.

1

Children have been bearing the brunt of the conflict in Yemen since the beginning. Born into extreme poverty and exposed to violence, the majority of them have grown up with trauma and lack of access to the most basic of human necessities.

2

Yemen is at risk of losing 400,000+ children to starvation this year alone. As the current situation stands, approximately 325,000 children are extremely malnourished and over 2 million are moderately malnourished.

3

Yemen is suffering the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Schools, hospitals, water, and sanitation systems have been shut down or destroyed. 20.1 million people are in need of food assistance. People are dying everyday from malnutrition and other easily preventable problems.