Updated January 26th 2018.

Dear Friends,

Thank you for visiting Rally for Yemen fundraising page, and joining us to support the lifesaving mission of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)!

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that provides aid to people in some 60 countries whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.

We are raising funds and awareness to support its response to emergencies in Yemen and around the world.  Your donation will be put to work immediately to deliver urgent medical care including treatment for malnutrition, emergency surgery, and lifesaving vaccinations for people around the world.

Yemen’s full-scale war, raging since March 2015, has inflicted immense costs on the population. Medical services were in a critical state as hundreds of health facilities across the country stopped functioning due to airstrikes, shelling, lack of supplies, or inadequate funding or staff. MSF scaled up its activities, directly providing health care to patients in 12 hospitals and supporting at least 18 other health facilities.

In 2016, more than 32,900 patients in facilities operated or supported by MSF received treatment for intentional physical violence, including war wounds—and nearly half of them were treated by MSF teams. MSF’s program in Yemen was one of its largest worldwide in terms of personnel.

Between October 2015 and August 2016, MSF lost 26 colleagues and patients in four separate bombings of health facilities it ran or supported. Following the airstrike on Abs hospital on August 15 that killed 19 people, including an MSF staff member, MSF temporarily withdrew its staff from six hospitals in the north of Yemen while continuing to support the facilities. MSF ran the emergency room, inpatient department, pediatric ward, and maternity departments at Abs hospital, and opened an inpatient therapeutic feeding center in December. MSF conducted medical outreach activities for people living in and around camps for the internally displaced in Abs district. MSF also provided lifesaving health care in Al Jumhouri hospital in Hajjah town.

Close to 4,000 civilians have died as a direct result of the conflict, including 1,332 children. Thousands more are wasting away because of deprivations caused by the conflict. UNICEF estimates that more than 460,000 children in Yemen face severe malnutrition, while 3.3 million children and pregnant or lactating women suffer from acute malnutrition. Even after the conflict ends, the effects of malnutrition – stunted growth and delayed cognitive development – may linger. In the worst cases, it is fatal.

The country’s water and sanitation infrastructure has also been ravaged, posing serious health risks. Restrictions on the importation of fuel have disrupted the delivery of water to millions of people in one of the most water-scarce countries on Earth. Fuel shortages have also curtailed access to health care, as hospitals are unable to power the generators they need to function.

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Thank you for your support and for getting involved. Every little bit helps and is greatly appreciated (and Tax deductible!)  You can learn more about its work by visiting 

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

www.msf.org/en/where-we-work/yemen

Thank you, to Yemen Café for their $500 donation

Thank you, to Almoda Fashion for their $500 donation

Thank you, to MG Pharmacy for their $500 donation

Thank you, to an anonymous donor of $300