More than 300,000 people are displaced as Action For Humanity warns that Yemen is being abandoned to an escalating humanitarian emergency.  

Action For Humanity is warning that the world is ignoring the deepening crisis in Yemen, where escalating hostilities, mass displacement and restrictions on humanitarian access are leaving families without adequate food, shelter, clean water or healthcare. 

New figures from the International Organisation for Migration show that more than 300,000 people have been displaced amid escalating fighting in western Yemen, almost all within the past two months. Many families have fled with little more than the clothes they were wearing and are now struggling to find shelter and afford basic necessities. Access restrictions are also making it harder for humanitarian organisations to reach those in need. 

In Ta’iz city, the cost of essential goods has reportedly increased three to fivefold as disrupted access routes place even basic food supplies beyond the reach of many families. 

The latest displacement is placing severe pressure on host communities and essential public services. Commercial supply routes have been disrupted, affecting the availability of food, fuel, water and other essential commodities. Humanitarian agencies are warning that needs are increasing while the resources available to respond remain dangerously limited. 

Mohammed Bahashwan, Yemen Country Director for Action For Humanity, based in Sana’a, said: 

“Here in Yemen, the crisis is not an abstract headline. It is the family arriving after dark with nowhere safe to sleep. It is the parent forced to choose between buying food and medicine. It is the child whose education, nutrition and health have all been disrupted at once.” 

“More than 300,000 people have been forced from their homes. Behind that number are families who have already endured years of hardship and have now lost what little stability they had managed to rebuild.” 

“The world is ignoring the deepening and escalating crisis in Yemen. Attention moves elsewhere, but the suffering here does not stop when the cameras leave. It continues in displacement sites, overcrowded homes, struggling hospitals and communities sharing resources they can barely afford for themselves.” 

“We are not asking people to look away from other emergencies. We are asking them not to look away from Yemen. Human suffering must not become a competition in which the least visible families are left with the least support.” 

“Action For Humanity is here. Our teams and partners are delivering healthcare, food, safe water and essential assistance, and we are ready to reach more families. But readiness without funding cannot provide a displaced child with shelter. It cannot stock a mobile health team with medicines, or place food in the hands of a family that has lost everything.” 

“My plea is simple: please do not wait for Yemen’s crisis to become even more catastrophic before paying attention. Speak about Yemen. Report on Yemen. Fund humanitarian work in Yemen. Stand with families who urgently need the world to see them.” 

Action For Humanity's Response in Yemen

Action For Humanity has an established presence in Yemen through its country team and local partners and is maintaining emergency readiness across food, cash assistance, water, shelter and healthcare. 

The organisation’s current response includes mobile health teams providing primary healthcare and nutrition services to displaced families, emergency distributions of food and essential household items, and water systems supplying safe water to displaced families and host communities. 

Action For Humanity has supported more than 7,700 people to access healthcare services, reached people in critical conditions through emergency in-kind distributions and provided nutritional commodities to more than affected children. We are calling for urgent, flexible humanitarian funding to scale up: 

• Emergency food assistance
• Multipurpose cash assistance
• Emergency shelter and essential household items
• Safe water and hygiene support
• Mobile and semi-fixed primary healthcare
• Nutritional support for vulnerable children
• Temporary learning spaces for displaced children 

How You Can Help

- £60 could support a highly vulnerable family with food assistance for one month. 

- £130 could provide one month of multipurpose cash assistance, helping a family meet urgent costs including food, shelter, healthcare and transport. 

- £139 could provide emergency shelter and essential household items for a newly displaced family. 

Action For Humanity is calling on the public, donors and institutions to support its emergency response and help ensure that families forced from their homes are not abandoned. Yemen cannot afford more silence. Donate today and stand with families facing displacement, hunger and uncertainty. 

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NOTES TO EDITORS 

Mohammed Bahashwan, Yemen Country Director for Action For Humanity, is available for television, radio, print and online interviews from Sana’a. 

He can provide first-hand humanitarian insight into: 

• The impact of the latest escalation on civilians 
• Mass displacement and the needs of newly displaced families 
• Food insecurity and rising prices 
• Humanitarian access and disrupted supply routes 
• Pressure on healthcare, water and other essential services 
• Action For Humanity’s programmes and emergency-response capacity 
• The consequences of insufficient humanitarian funding 

For interviews and further information, contact: 

Charles Lawley 
Director of Marketing, Communications and Advocacy 
Action For Humanity 
charles.lawley@actionforhumanity.org 
+44 7535 415060 

Action For Humanity is an international humanitarian organisation providing assistance to people affected by conflict, disasters and extreme poverty. In Yemen, its team delivers healthcare, nutrition support, food assistance, safe water, essential household items, livelihoods assistance and support for displaced and vulnerable communities. 

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