Yemen

Yemen is currently the tragic site of one of the world’s biggest humanitarian disasters. According to the German Federal Foreign Office, more than 21 million people in the country, which has been depleted by years of war, are dependent on humanitarian aid. More than 13.5 million children are threatened by famine, bombs and diseases such as dengue fever, diphtheria and cholera. Hospitals, markets and schools are destroyed or closed in many places. In places where schooling still takes place, it is not unusual for children to be so weakened by lack of nutrition that they collapse again and again. And yet it is precisely this young generation that will later be faced with the task of carrying out the arduous reconstruction in their homeland. In Yemen, we therefore focus our projects primarily on children.