Type of help
Food provisions
Education
Project partners
local assistant
STELP is helping since
2019
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.
Since 2019, we have been able to set up soup kitchens at seven schools. We currently provide around 2000 schoolchildren and 90 teachers with a vital meal. Thus, we not only contribute to providing the children with much-needed food, but also offer an incentive for parents to continue sending their children to school.
In addition, we were involved in the construction of a tent school in Dharawan Camp, 48 km north of Sanaa, in October 2021, where up to 180 children are now receiving a school education and thus a perspective for the future.
In addition, food prices have more than doubled since 2021, with wheat becoming scarce due to the war in Ukraine. Because the famine is getting worse, we have set up an emergency kitchen together with our local partners during the school holidays. Every day, we were able to distribute up to 250 portions to hungry children and adults.
You can find more news about our project in Yemen here.
