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A young child who is acutely malnourished is seated in the lap of a health worker in Yemen. Another health worker is measuring the child’s upper arm to check whether he is gaining weight and how well he is progressing.A young child who is acutely malnourished is seated in the lap of a health worker in Yemen. Another health worker is measuring the child’s upper arm to check whether he is gaining weight and how well he is progressing.

Your donation today could help more children like Basam*.

Single donation
could fund screening of 10 children for malnutrition and mean early referrals to a nutrition centre that can save lives.

We often hear stories of mothers’ skipping meals for 2 or 3 days so they can help prevent their children from going to sleep hungry.  

Tragically, in the past year, we’ve seen unprecedented levels of hunger in Yemen and across other countries where Concern Worldwide works.   

This escalating crisis is having a severe impact on the development of young children like Basam and is leading to stunted growth and wasting. Sadly, not every child survives.    

Critically, your donation could help Concern to access at risk children who may be living in harsh conditions in displacement camps - some having fled conflict or extreme climate events like flooding or drought.   

Concern’s Yemen Country Director, Victor Moses, spoke to us as a colleague and father of a young daughter: “When I see mothers, who themselves are malnourished and exhausted, caring for their children as they grow weaker every day, I feel their hearts breaking, I feel their fear."

Hunger shouldn’t be inevitable. Concern’s work in Yemen is supporting many young children like Basam – who are too weak to play - to recover from acute malnutrition. 

Your donation can help us to reach many more children who need our support today.  

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A young child who is suffering with acute malnutrition is seated next to a community health worker wearing a black niqab. The child is eating a peanut based nutritional food supplement that he is steadying in his little hands.
Basam* (10 months) eating nutritional supplements at a Concern supported health clinic in one of the displacement camps in Lahj Governorate, Yemen. Photo: Ammar Khalaf/Concern Worldwide

Concern supporters have helped us to develop therapeutic food supplements for young children and babies that are high in protein and other nutrients.  

It costs just £17 to provide a child with one months’ supply of vital supplements that could save their life. 

Please help us continue to support those in urgent need of help. 

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How your donation is used

85.4%
Overseas programmes

85 pence in every pound donated goes towards our emergency response and long-term development programmes, working together with people living in the most difficult situations to bring about lasting change to lives, livelihoods and communities.

Asma Begum (37) and her husband Abdul with their three daughters Lamia (18), Sadia (16) and Maria (5) and their grandmother Kulsum Begum (72) started CRAAIN in 2020. Asma Begum started as a lead farmer, received training and seeds. Before, she did agri activities but wasn’t very successful. She had received one ring composter from the local gov but no training on how to use it. As a lead farmer, she has supported 400 households in this area. She used to rely on her husband but is now totally reliable.

  • 11.8%

    Fundraising

    This is money we spend to raise more funds for our overseas work.

  • 2.6%

    Policy, advocacy and campaigns

    We invest money to campaign, lobby governments, run petitions and put pressure on decision-makers to tackle the underlying causes of extreme poverty and push for change.

  • 0.2%

    Governance

    These are funds we spend to ensure that Concern is compliant and adheres to the highest standards.

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