What we do
Save the Children works to ensure Yemeni children survive, learn, and thrive by delivering life-saving health and nutrition services, promoting safe and inclusive education, protecting children from violence, and building resilient families and communities through sustainable livelihoods and infrastructure support. Working with partners, we aim to realize children’s rights at scale, improve equity and empower children.
Through its comprehensive, multi-sectoral approach, Save the Children continues to protect children’s rights and promote their well-being across Yemen.
Hadeel, 16 months old, with her father at the health center for check-up, Amran. Zaid Shaker / Save the Children
Our Response
Health & Nutrition
Our Health and Nutrition programme in Yemen represent a comprehensive and adaptive approach to addressing the critical needs of the country's most vulnerable populations, primarily children and women. Operating in a complex and challenging environment, we have committed to providing a range of essential services that align with both local and international health standards.
Education
Our education programme in Yemen is a vital component of our humanitarian efforts, cantered around enhancing access, quality, and systemic strength of education. Our multi-dimensional approach includes working closely with formal and non-formal education systems and advocating for education rights.
Child Protection
Our Child Protection program in Yemen addresses the increasingly hostile environment for children through a transformative theory of change. This comprehensive strategy not only seeks the survival of young lives but also their flourishing. The program's dual objectives are to enhance the resilience and well-being of children and youth and strengthen the capacity of local communities and institutions for effective child protection.
Food Security and Livelihood
Our Food Security and Livelihoods programme in Yemen is following a comprehensive and transformative strategy aimed at addressing child poverty and food insecurity. With a focus on economic resilience and safety nets, our programme is structured around key areas: capacity building, child-sensitive interventions, partnerships, targeted support, and economic resilience.
WASH
Our WASH programme is committed to enhancing the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) conditions in Yemen, a country heavily afflicted by high malnutrition rates, WASH-related diseases, and climate change vulnerabilities. Our approach is integrative, blending WASH initiatives into Health, Nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods, Education, and Child Protection programmes.