By Ina Lee | Communications Director
Thank you for continuing to stand with the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation. Your support in 2025 helped us sustain critical humanitarian services for families across Yemen at a time when needs remain extraordinarily high. Because of you, vulnerable households were able to access food, healthcare, and other essential support when they needed it most.
Yemen continues to face one of the world’s most severe and prolonged humanitarian crises. Years of conflict, economic decline, and the erosion of public services have left millions of families struggling to meet even their most basic needs. Across the country, many parents are still forced to make difficult daily choices about food, health care, and their children’s well-being. Food insecurity remains widespread, the health system continues to face significant strain, and protection concerns persist in many communities.
In this challenging environment, your generosity enabled us to maintain a broad, multi-sector response focused on those most at risk. In 2025, we implemented 80 projects across 15 governorates, delivering life-saving and resilience-focused assistance in health, nutrition, food security, protection, education, water, and livelihoods.
Health and Nutrition
Child malnutrition remains a serious threat in Yemen, where limited access to nutritious food, safe water, and basic health services continues to put young children at high risk. In 2025, we treated 7,200 children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) across five high-need governorates: Al-Hudaydah, Ibb, Al-Jawf, Hajjah, and Al-Mahwit.
Children enrolled in the program received therapeutic feeding, ready-to-use therapeutic foods, and regular follow-up from trained health teams. Community outreach also helped caregivers recognize symptoms earlier and seek treatment sooner, supporting better recovery outcomes.
Yaqub, a young child living in a displacement camp in Al-Tuhayta, was among those reached. When he first entered the program, he was suffering from severe acute malnutrition. After six months of consistent treatment and follow-up, his condition improved and he gradually regained strength.
Strengthening Health Services
Alongside our nutrition work, we continued to support access to essential healthcare in underserved areas. In 2025, we supported four health centers, helping 643,286 people access services through strengthened medical facilities.
We also worked to keep critical health systems functioning. We supplied medical reagents to the National Central Public Health Laboratories in Sana’a, enabling laboratories to continue essential diagnostic testing. In Al-Hudaydah, we provided generators to health centers to help maintain maternal, child health, and emergency services during frequent electricity outages. These investments help ensure that essential services remain available in areas where disruptions are common.
Through the Medical Assistance Initiative, we continued to reduce financial and access barriers for low-income patients by providing medicines, medical supplies, basic treatment services, and life-saving interventions. By helping families manage urgent medical needs, this support contributes to more consistent treatment and reduces the risk that cost alone prevents someone from seeking care.
Food Security and Livelihoods
Food insecurity continues to affect millions of Yemeni households, driven by economic pressures and declining purchasing power. In response, we delivered integrated food assistance while also supporting early recovery and livelihood activities where possible, recognizing that many families need both immediate relief and pathways toward greater stability.
In 2025, we reached:
Through the Food Basket Distribution Project alone, assistance reached vulnerable families across 14 governorates and more than 45 districts, helping ease immediate food shortages and reduce financial pressure on low-income households.
Jamala, a widowed mother caring for six orphaned children, was among those supported. For her family, the arrival of a Ramadan food basket brought relief from constant worry and allowed her to provide regular meals for her children during the holy month.
Alongside emergency food support, we also implemented livelihood-oriented activities such as livestock and poultry distribution and small family enterprise support. These efforts are designed to help vulnerable households begin rebuilding income sources over time and reduce long-term dependence on humanitarian aid where conditions allow.
Protection, Orphan Support, and Education
Supporting vulnerable children and families remained central to our work in 2025. Through the Protection Project, we provided integrated support combining financial assistance, education support, and social care to help stabilize households facing prolonged hardship.
Reported achievements include:
In addition, the School Bag Distribution Project provided 2,936 school bags to vulnerable children, including orphans and children from low-income families. Together, these efforts help children remain connected to education while easing some of the pressure on families during a difficult period.
Emergency and Winter Response
To help vulnerable households cope with harsh seasonal conditions, we implemented a winter assistance campaign reaching 9,110 beneficiaries across 10 governorates and 32 districts. Support included blankets and winter jackets for internally displaced persons and low-income families exposed to cold weather risks. Seasonal assistance remains an important safeguard for families living in fragile conditions.
Safe Water Access
Access to safe drinking water remains a persistent challenge in many communities. In 2025, we implemented targeted water support through the provision of water storage tanks, benefiting 305 individuals, including persons with disabilities. Improving safe water storage helps reduce health risks and supports safer household water use in vulnerable communities.
Economic Empowerment
In addition to humanitarian relief, we supported small-scale economic empowerment initiatives, including sewing machine support and family bakery assistance. These projects aim to strengthen self-reliance among vulnerable households and community groups by creating practical opportunities for income generation where local conditions permit.
Looking Ahead
While important progress was made in 2025, humanitarian needs across Yemen remain severe. Continued donor support is essential to sustain life-saving health and nutrition services, expand food assistance, and strengthen resilience for vulnerable families.
Your support through GlobalGiving continues to make a meaningful difference. Because of you, children are recovering from malnutrition, families are accessing food and healthcare, and communities are holding on to hope during an extremely difficult period.
With sincere appreciation,
Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation
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