Education Yemen Project #43561

Humanitarian Relief for Yemen

by Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation

Project Report | Apr 27, 2026
First Quarter 2026 Program Progress Report

By Ina Lee | Communications Director

Because of your generosity, the first quarter of 2026 became a period of real, visible transformation for thousands of families across Yemen. In a country where conflict, economic collapse, and displacement continue to shape daily life, your support allowed us to do more than respond, it allowed us to reach further, act faster, and deliver deeper impact.

Over just three months, we implemented 31 projects and reached 151,147 people across 14 governorates. This represents a remarkable increase from last year, but more importantly, it reflects a shift in how we serve communities. We focused on larger, more integrated interventions that not only meet urgent needs but also create pathways toward recovery and stability.

Every number in this report carries a human story. It represents a child who survived malnutrition, a parent who regained the ability to provide, or a student who now has a place to learn. Your support made each of these outcomes possible.

Expanding Our Reach, Deepening Our Impact

This quarter, we made a deliberate decision to move beyond smaller, short-term activities and invest in projects that could deliver meaningful and lasting change. This approach resulted in a 47.6% increase in the number of projects and a 159% increase in beneficiaries compared to the same period in 2025.

What this looks like on the ground is powerful. Instead of reaching a few families in one location, we reached entire communities across multiple governorates. Instead of providing one-time assistance, we delivered sustained support that improves health, strengthens livelihoods, and restores dignity.

This growth is not just about scale, it is about effectiveness. By concentrating resources where they are most needed, we were able to maximize impact and ensure that each intervention created real, measurable improvements in people’s lives.

Saving Lives: Treating Severe Acute Malnutrition

In Yemen, severe acute malnutrition remains one of the most urgent and life-threatening conditions affecting children. Families often lack access to adequate food, healthcare, and basic services, leaving young children extremely vulnerable.

With your support, we treated 750 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition across five governorates and nine districts, including some of the most underserved areas such as Al Hudaydah, Al Jawf, Taiz, and Al Mahwit.

These interventions are intensive and life-saving. Children enrolled in the program receive therapeutic nutrition, regular medical monitoring, and follow-up care to ensure full recovery. For many of them, this support arrives at the final moment, when survival is uncertain.

But recovery is possible. We witnessed children who were too weak to stand begin to regain strength. We saw mothers who had lost hope begin to smile again as their children improved. These are moments that remind us why this work matters.

Stories like Saeed’s, who overcame a life-threatening condition through consistent care, show the power of timely intervention. What begins as emergency treatment becomes something greater, a restored life, a strengthened family, and a renewed sense of hope for the future.

Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Orphan Sponsorship

For orphaned children in Yemen, the loss of a parent is often followed by a struggle for survival. Without stable income or support, many families are forced to make impossible choices between food, education, and healthcare.

This quarter, 676 orphaned children across 14 governorates received sponsorship support. This assistance provides monthly financial aid, but its impact goes far beyond that. It creates stability in households that would otherwise face constant uncertainty.

Children supported through this program are able to remain in school, access essential supplies, and live in a more secure environment. Just as importantly, they gain a sense of care and belonging that helps them rebuild their confidence and outlook on life.

Hafeez’s story reflects this transformation. Despite living in difficult conditions, he continues to excel in school and dreams of becoming an engineer. Yahya, another beneficiary, now continues his education while expressing his creativity through art. These children are not defined by their circumstances, and with your support, they are building futures filled with possibility.

This program shows that sponsorship is not just about meeting needs today, it is about shaping the lives of tomorrow.

Strengthening Health Systems and Supporting Livelihoods

Sustainable recovery requires strong communities, and strong communities depend on both reliable healthcare and economic stability. This quarter, we addressed both.

In Al Hudaydah Governorate, three health centers were equipped with electricity generators. In areas where power outages are frequent, this simple intervention ensures that medical services continue uninterrupted. Clinics can now operate essential equipment, preserve medicines, and respond to emergencies without delay. As a result, over 71,775 people now have access to more reliable healthcare.

At the same time, we supported vulnerable families through livelihood initiatives designed to restore independence. In Sana’a, six families received sewing machines along with materials to begin working immediately. These tools provide a direct path to income generation.

For women like Basma, this meant the ability to provide for her children after losing all other sources of support. For Arwa, it meant moving from dependency to self-reliance, from uncertainty to stability. These are not temporary solutions. They are long-term investments in dignity and resilience.

By combining health and economic support, we are not only addressing immediate needs but also helping communities build stronger, more sustainable futures.

Investing in Education: Building a School for the Future

In Raymah Governorate, many children grow up without access to safe and adequate learning spaces. Classrooms are often overcrowded, under-resourced, or completely unavailable.

This quarter, we began constructing and furnishing a new school in Al-Salafiyah District. The project includes three classrooms and will serve 200 children once completed. It will also provide essential learning materials, including desks and textbooks.

This initiative is about more than infrastructure. It is about creating opportunity. Education gives children the tools to imagine a different future, one not defined by conflict or poverty.

Even as construction continues, the impact is already being felt. Families see hope. Children see possibility. And communities see a future where education becomes the foundation for long-term recovery and growth.

Responding to Hunger: Ramadan Food Basket Distribution

Food insecurity remains one of the most pressing challenges for families across Yemen. For many, daily meals are uncertain, and the arrival of Ramadan can intensify this struggle.

With your support, we distributed 5,620 food baskets across 14 governorates, reaching approximately 44,960 individuals. Each basket contained essential food items that sustained families throughout the fasting period.

This intervention provided immediate relief, but its emotional impact was just as significant. Families were able to break their fast with dignity. Parents no longer had to worry about how to feed their children during this sacred time.

Stories like that of Taha’s family, living in a displacement camp with limited access to food, remind us how critical this support is. For them, a single food basket was not just aid, it was relief, comfort, and a reminder that they are not alone.

Through this effort, compassion was translated into action, and communities experienced the true spirit of solidarity and care.

The Road Ahead, With You

As we look back on the first quarter of 2026, the impact of your support is clear. Together, we have saved lives, strengthened families, and invested in the future of entire communities.

What makes this quarter truly meaningful is not just the scale of what was achieved, but the depth of change it represents. Children are healthier. Families are more stable. Communities are beginning to recover.

There is still a long road ahead, but with your continued support, we will keep moving forward. Every contribution you make helps turn hardship into hope and creates lasting change where it is needed most.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

With gratitude,
The YRRF Team

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Feb 27, 2026
Your Impact in 2025

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:

51,912 people through food basket distributions
7,700 people through charitable kitchens
8,348 people with prepared meals
62,435 people through Udhiyah distributions
2,590 people through Aqiqah distributions

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:

674 orphan sponsorships
7,300 beneficiaries of educational services
3 classrooms constructed

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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Jan 16, 2026
Fourth Quarter 2025 Program Progress Report

By Ina Lee | Communications Director

Executive Summary

During the fourth quarter of 2025, we continued implementing humanitarian and recovery programs across Yemen amid ongoing conflict, economic decline, and weakened public services. The humanitarian situation remained severe, with widespread food insecurity, limited access to healthcare, and high levels of displacement affecting millions of people.

Throughout the reporting period, we implemented 30 projects across 14 governorates, reaching 178,072 individuals through a combination of life-saving assistance and longer-term support. Our work addressed urgent needs in nutrition, health, winter protection, and child welfare, while also supporting household resilience through economic empowerment and direct assistance.

This report provides detailed progress updates on all programs implemented during the quarter, reflecting activities carried out, populations reached, and outcomes observed during the reporting period.

Humanitarian Context

Yemen continues to face one of the most complex humanitarian crises globally. Years of conflict have led to the collapse of essential infrastructure and public services, including healthcare, education, and water systems. More than two-thirds of the population are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, and over 80% rely on humanitarian aid to survive. Food insecurity, malnutrition, preventable disease, and poverty remain widespread, affecting millions of people across the country.

Children are among the most severely impacted, with hundreds of thousands of children under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Displaced families, orphans, and households without stable income continue to face heightened vulnerability. In this environment, our approach during the fourth quarter focused on protecting lives, meeting immediate needs, and supporting families in maintaining a minimum level of stability.

Program Updates

A. Nutrition and Child Health - Severe Acute Malnutrition Treatment Program

Severe acute malnutrition remains one of the most critical health challenges affecting children under five in Yemen. Limited access to food, weakened healthcare services, and prolonged economic hardship continue to place young children at high risk.

During the fourth quarter, we treated 600 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition through a structured therapeutic feeding program. Children received ready-to-use therapeutic food over a six-month period, combined with regular medical follow-up and monitoring of recovery indicators, including weight and mid-upper arm circumference.

The program was implemented in Al-Hudaydah, Hajjah, Al-Mahwit, and Al-Jawf, governorates with high malnutrition prevalence and limited health service coverage. Caregivers were provided with guidance on child feeding, hygiene, and basic health practices to support sustained recovery.

Monitoring and follow-up indicated measurable improvements in children’s nutritional status and overall health. The program contributed to reducing mortality risk and preventing long-term physical and developmental complications.

B. Economic Empowerment - Livestock (Sheep Farming) Program

Ongoing economic collapse and unemployment have severely limited household coping capacity across Yemen. To address this, we continued implementing our livestock-based economic empowerment program during the reporting period.

The program supported thousands of vulnerable households across several governorates by providing sheep along with training in livestock care, breeding practices, basic animal health, and small-scale income management. Targeted households included women-headed families, unemployed individuals, and households with no stable source of income.

Beneficiaries used livestock products for household consumption and income generation through milk production and livestock sales. Many households reported improved food security, increased income, and reduced reliance on emergency assistance.

Field monitoring confirmed that participating households demonstrated improved economic stability and greater capacity to meet basic needs.

C. Winter Clothing and Seasonal Protection Program

Winter conditions place additional strain on families already affected by poverty and displacement. Inadequate shelter, lack of heating, and limited access to warm clothing increase the risk of illness, particularly among children and older adults.

During the fourth quarter, we distributed winter jackets and blankets to 9,110 families across 10 governorates and 31 districts. Targeting prioritized displaced families, households with young children, elderly members, and those living in exposed or informal shelters.

Distributions were coordinated with community representatives to ensure appropriate targeting. The assistance helped reduce cold-related health risks and improved household comfort during the winter season.

D. Orphan Sponsorship Program

The humanitarian crisis has resulted in a significant number of orphaned children across Yemen, many of whom face heightened risks of poverty, school dropout, and exploitation.

During the reporting period, we continued sponsoring 674 orphaned children, including 371 girls and 303 boys, across multiple governorates. Sponsorship support covered food, clothing, healthcare, education expenses, and psychosocial support.

Caregivers reported reduced financial pressure and improved household stability. Sponsored children demonstrated improved school attendance, academic engagement, and overall well-being.

The orphan sponsorship program remains a central component of our efforts to protect children and support their continued education and development.

E. Health System Support - Electrical Energy for Health Centers

Reliable electricity is essential for healthcare delivery, particularly for maternal, child, and emergency services. Many health facilities in Yemen experience frequent power outages that disrupt operations and compromise patient safety.

During the fourth quarter, we supplied generators to health centers in Al-Hudaydah Governorate, enabling uninterrupted power for vaccine refrigeration, delivery rooms, emergency care, and routine medical services.

Health staff reported improved service continuity and safer operating conditions, particularly for mothers and newborns. This intervention strengthened the operational capacity of health facilities serving vulnerable communities.

F. Medical Assistance Program

High healthcare costs and limited household income continue to prevent many families from accessing necessary medical care.

During the reporting period, we provided medical assistance to vulnerable families, covering the costs of consultations, treatments, and essential medications. Priority was given to displaced households, people with chronic illnesses, and families without stable income.

Medical assistance enabled beneficiaries to receive timely care and reduced health-related financial burdens.

G. Financial (Cash) Assistance Program

Cash assistance remains an important tool for supporting households facing immediate needs.

During the fourth quarter, we distributed financial assistance to poor and displaced families to support food purchases, education costs, healthcare expenses, and other essential needs. Beneficiaries reported that cash assistance helped stabilize household conditions and reduced reliance on harmful coping strategies.

H. Food Support and Aqiqah Distributions

Through donor-supported Aqiqah offerings, we distributed meat to poor and displaced families during the reporting period. These distributions improved dietary diversity and provided an important source of protein for households with limited food access.

In addition to nutritional benefits, the distributions carried cultural and social significance for recipient families.

Monitoring, Accountability, and Implementation

Across all programs, implementation was supported by community-based targeting, beneficiary verification, and coordination with local authorities and service providers. Our teams conducted field visits, collected beneficiary feedback, and documented activities to ensure accountability and effective use of resources.

Closing Remarks

During the fourth quarter of 2025, continued donor support enabled us to deliver essential assistance across multiple sectors, protect vulnerable populations, and support households working to rebuild stability under extremely difficult conditions.

We remain deeply grateful to all supporters whose trust and generosity made this work possible. Their continued support allows us to sustain operations and respond to urgent needs across Yemen.

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