Save Yemen's Children

A Yemeni child dies every 10 minutes. Three years of war have shattered a beautiful nation and driven millions of its people to the brink of famine. The reality is heart-breaking:

• 11 million Yemeni children survive on humanitarian assistance, and as many as 400,000 suffer from severe acute malnutrition;
• Over a million people, the majority of them children, have contracted cholera in the worst recorded outbreak in modern history -- a medical crisis made worse by a dire shortage of clean water;
• 2 million children are currently out of school, with millions more at risk of losing their access to learning.

Avaaz interviewed dozens of children across Yemen to ask them about their lives and offer them the chance to share their messages with the world leaders deciding the fate of their country (notably US Senators who are now deciding whether to withdraw military forces from the conflict). Here's what those beautiful kids had to say:

In 2015, after Houthi rebels stormed across much of the country, a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates responded with a crippling blockade and bombing campaign across Yemen. The Saudi-led coalition, supported by the US and UK, weaponized aid in an effort to get the upperhand in the conflict, but it’s just made things worse in a war where all sides are committing horrible crimes. The UN has placed all the parties in the conflict, including the Saudi-led coalition, on its blacklist for committing atrocity crimes.

As a community we've campaigned to block arms sales to the Saudis as long as the war continues and we've raised funds to make sure we can help smuggle the truth out from behind the child-killing blockade:

February 28th, 2018