“الغذاء العالمي”: الجوع يدفع عائلات في اليمن إلى أكل أوراق الشجر
منذ 44 ثانية
Abdullatif, 35, lives in Maghrabah district in Hajjah governorate. Marghrabah is one of 11 districts in Yemen with IPC5/famine-like conditions. He has 5 children. Abdullatif receives monthly food assistance from WFP – a food basket of staples including flour, pulses, oil, sugar and salt. That is the only food they have. Abdullatif has resorted to eating leaves from a tree called Halas to feed his family. They boil the leaves to soften them and make the more digestible.
"Sometimes I feel like I'm going to die without food. Sometimes we get a little food from the neighbours, but there are nights when we starve. All of us"
“Hunger does not show mercy to anyone. If it comes, it will kill you and your children. That is how I always imagine it: as a killer. Like a ghost.”
"I fear for my children. They are a part of me.”
WFP supports nearly 2500 household including Abdullatif’s family in Maghrabah district - where there are pockets of famine-like conditions - with emergency food assistance of flour, pulses, vegetable oil, sugar and salt.
Nearly 50,000 people in Yemen are living in famine-like conditions and 5 million people are in immediate danger. A child in Yemen dies every 10 minutes of preventable diseases such as diarrhoea, malnutrition, and respiratory tract infections.
Responding to these acute needs, WFP provides food assistance to nearly 13 million people, prioritising areas with the highest rates of food insecurity. In February, WFP resumed monthly distributions to 350,000 people in 11 districts facing famine-like conditions (IPC5), including Maghrabah, after the agency had been forced to halve rations due to funding shortfalls.
قال برنامج الأغذية العالمي التابع للأمم المتحدة، اليوم الجمعة، إن “الجوع وشح السيولة يدفع عائلات في اليمن، إلى أكل أوراق الشجر”.
وأضاف البرنامج في تغريدة عبر تويتر، أن “دوافع أزمة اليمن، المتمثلة بالصراع والانحدار الاقتصادي، لا تظهر أية بوادر لتراجعها، ما يؤدي إلى تزايد الجوع”.
وأشار البرنامج إلى أن “هذا يدفع العائلات في اليمن إلى اللجوء إلى تدابير قاسية، مثل أكل أوراق الشجر للبقاء على قيد الحياة”.
والأحد، قال مكتب تنسيق الشؤون الإنسانية التابع للأمم المتحدة (أوتشا)، إن 16.2 مليون شخص في اليمن يعانون انعدام الأمن الغذائي.
