Yesterday, Thursday, the United Nations launched an appeal to donors to provide $2.47 billion to support the humanitarian response plan in Yemen during the current year 2025.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement, “The United Nations and its partners yesterday launched the humanitarian needs response plan in Yemen for the year 2025, seeking $2.47 billion to provide urgent humanitarian aid and protection to millions of people in need.”
The statement added, “A decade of crisis has deeply affected Yemeni communities, which continue to bear the brunt of the conflict.”
To provide urgent humanitarian aid and protection to millions of people in need
The UN statement explained that “more than half of the country’s population – 19.5 million people – are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection services, with the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in Yemen, including women and girls, exposed to the highest level of danger.”
p>The statement continued, “Within the framework of the 2025 Appeal, humanitarian workers aim to provide life-saving assistance to 10.5 million of the most vulnerable people.”
The Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, Julian Harness, stressed that the United Nations: “will ensure the provision of cost-effective, high-quality assistance to people affected by the crisis wherever they are.”
Harness added - according to the statement - that “humanitarian work has been effective in alleviating the worst effects of this crisis, but we cannot do this alone. More is needed to reduce needs, achieve peace, revive the economy, and build the resilience of communities through activities.” Sustainable development.
Despite the great challenges, 197 relief organizations were able to reach more than 8 million people with life-saving assistance last year, according to the UN statement. Yemen is suffering from one of the worst humanitarian and economic crises in the world as a result of the war between government forces and the Houthis that began about 10 years ago.