She is living through the world's worst humanitarian crisis — where hunger, for a woman, is intertwined with humiliation, danger, and an impossible daily choice.

A Crisis the World Stopped Watching

After more than a decade of war, Yemen is collapsing under conflict, disease and famine. It remains the world's worst humanitarian crisis — and it is deepening. As of early 2026, more than 22 million people — over half the population — need humanitarian assistance. Over 18 million don't have enough to eat, and tens of thousands are now at direct risk of famine.

And just as the need peaks, the aid is running out. By the end of 2025, the humanitarian response was less than 25% funded — food and nutrition programmes among the first to be cut. The world looked away. The hunger did not.

When Hunger Becomes a Transaction

With men killed, missing or fighting, women now head countless households with no protection at all. Around one in four displaced families is now led by a woman — many of them still children themselves.

For these women, hunger is never just hunger.

Some are coerced into "sex for aid" — trading their bodies to men who control food distributions, just to feed their children. Others walk hours through 45°C heat for a single ration, carrying children in their arms and fear in every step. Female-headed households are now three times more likely to be going hungry than any other — 75% of them are food insecure, and one in four households now has a malnourished mother or expectant mother.

When survival depends on the mercy of the men handing out food, dignity is the first thing taken.

We refuse to let aid come at the cost of her body.

Our Response: The Safe Aid Framework

In Yemen, Forgotten Women delivers through our Safe Aid Framework, so help reaches women and children without risk of exploitation or abuse.

Every delivery is direct, verified and safe — no middlemen, no conditions, no coercion. We reach those most often left behind: the widows, the displaced, the women and children no one else is counting.

Direct, verified, safe. Never at the cost of her body.

What Your Donation Provides

• £60 — Emergency Aid: provides a family with food for one month.
• £500 — Water Tanker: 8,000 litres of safe, clean water for displaced women and children.

Every gift is a month a mother doesn't have to choose between her hunger and her dignity — and a family that drinks safely instead of walking miles for water that may make them sick.

Why It Matters

Hunger is not only about an empty stomach. In Yemen, for a woman, it is about what she is forced to give up to fill it.

When a mother has food, she doesn't have to trade herself to feed her children. When her family has clean water, she doesn't have to send her children walking through the heat, or watch them fall sick from what they drink. Safe aid doesn't just keep her alive — it lets her stay whole.

Feed her. Protect her. Restore her dignity — one family at a time.

Donate now. Reach the women and children the world forgot.