Yemen Winter Emergency Response Update
Supported displaced families through harsh winter conditions For families living in displacement camps in Marib, winter brought another layer of hardship. Many households were already
Supported displaced families through harsh winter conditions For families living in displacement camps in Marib, winter brought another layer of hardship. Many households were already
For families across Yemen, this emergency has lasted for years.
Prolonged armed conflict and economic collapse have devastated livelihoods, displaced millions and weakened the systems people depend on for food, clean water and healthcare. Today, around 19.7 million people need humanitarian assistance, including approximately 15 million women and children.
Hunger is becoming even more severe. Yemen is now considered one of the world’s most critical hunger hotspots, with millions facing crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity in 2026.
Your donation can help provide food, clean water and other essential support to families living through one of the world’s longest humanitarian emergencies.
Help Families in Yemen
More than ten years of crisis have changed everyday life across Yemen.
Families have lost incomes and livelihoods. Food and fuel have become increasingly difficult to afford. Millions have been displaced from their homes, while hospitals and other essential services struggle to function.
For many families, there is no single problem to overcome.
A parent may be trying to find enough food while also paying for clean water. A child suffering from malnutrition may need treatment from a health facility struggling with shortages of medicines, staff or electricity.
Around 40% of Yemen’s health facilities are partially functioning or completely out of service, while millions of people need water, sanitation and hygiene assistance.
Yemen is facing a worsening hunger crisis.
In government-controlled areas alone, around 5.4 million people are projected to face acute food insecurity between June and September 2026, including 1.5 million people facing emergency levels of hunger. Conditions are expected to remain severe through the end of the year.
When food becomes unaffordable, families are forced to make impossible calculations.
How many meals can we afford today? Which foods can we go without? Can we pay for medicine and still buy enough to eat?
Children face some of the greatest risks. Malnutrition can affect their growth, health and development long after the immediate hunger has passed.
Provide Emergency Support
Penny Appeal works with partners to provide essential assistance according to the needs of families and conditions on the ground.
Your donation can help provide:
Emergency needs can change, so assistance is directed according to current humanitarian priorities, access and program availability.
Around 4.8 million people remain internally displaced across Yemen, many living in camps or temporary accommodation with limited access to basic services.
For families, displacement means much more than changing where they sleep.
It can mean leaving behind a home, work, farmland, belongings and the people they relied on. Families then have to find food, water, shelter and an income somewhere unfamiliar, often with very little to start again.
Some have lived this way for years.
Emergency support helps families meet their immediate needs while their ability to return home or rebuild their lives remains uncertain.
For millions of Yemeni children, this emergency has shaped their entire childhood.
At the beginning of 2026, 10.8 million children needed humanitarian assistance, around 3.2 million were out of school, and widespread malnutrition continued to put young lives at risk.
When a family cannot afford enough food, children eat less.
When healthcare is too far away or unavailable, illnesses that should be treatable can become dangerous.
When a family is displaced, education can be interrupted for months or years.
Supporting families with food, water, healthcare and other essentials helps address the pressures children are living with every day.
Our Yemen Emergency response focuses on practical support for families facing severe hardship.
Our teams and partners assess where assistance is needed and what families require most.
Depending on the program and location, this can include food, water, medical assistance, shelter and other essential items.
Conditions in Yemen remain fragile. Emergency funding allows assistance to respond to changing needs and reach communities where support is most urgently required.
Support the Yemen Emergency
Yemen has experienced more than a decade of armed conflict alongside economic collapse, displacement, disease outbreaks and climate-related shocks. These overlapping crises have left millions of people without reliable access to food, healthcare, clean water and other essentials.
Approximately 19.7 million people, including around 15 million women and children, need humanitarian assistance in 2026.
Your donation can support essential assistance such as food, clean water, healthcare, nutrition, shelter and other emergency needs, depending on current programs and conditions.
Yemen remains one of the world’s most critical hunger hotspots. Recent analysis projects worsening acute food insecurity throughout 2026, driven by economic decline, disrupted livelihoods, high costs and reduced humanitarian assistance.
Around 4.8 million people are internally displaced across Yemen, with many living in camps and facing limited access to essential services.
Where a Yemen Emergency donation option is specifically designated as Zakat eligible, your Zakat can be directed to eligible recipients in accordance with Islamic requirements. Select the designated Zakat option when donating.
Locations and forms of assistance depend on current humanitarian needs, access and active programs. Penny Appeal works with partners to direct support where it can be delivered effectively.
More than a decade is a long time to live without certainty about the next meal, a safe home or access to healthcare.
For families in Yemen, the length of this crisis has not made their needs any less urgent.
Your donation can help provide food, clean water and essential support to families who are still living through it.
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