Do you know about 24 million people in Yemen are in need of humanitarian aid of which 12 million people are children. Read the slides to get more information!

1. Humanitarian
Crisis in Yemen

2. Content
• Humanitarian crisis – its meaning and examples
• Factors and Effects
• Situation in Yemen
• Statistics
• How you can help?

3. Humanitarian
Crisis
Threat to
livelihood
Internal and
external
conflicts
Affected by
different
factors
Singular or
series of
events

4. Types of Humanitarian Crisis
Natural disaster
(famine,
epidemics)
Man-made
disaster (armed
conflict)
Complex
emergencies

5. Factors causing the Humanitarian crisis
Humanitarian
Crisis
Political unrest – 80 million people were
forced to flee their homes.
E.g. Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan
Healthcare emergencies – 1.6 billion
people in the world have no access to basic
medical care. E.g. Ebola in West Africa
Environmental causes – 90 % of
disasters are caused by climate change. E.g.
Tsunami in Indian Ocean

6. Effects
Effects
Population displacement
E.g. Syria
Lack of basic services
E.g. Afghanistan, LibyaHunger and malnutrition

7. Situation in Yemen
Humanitarian
crisis
Worst crisis in
the world
Political
conflict
Different
actors
Effect on
population

8. Yemen crisis
Snapshot

9. How can you
contribute?