Tawakkol Karman Foundation

The ongoing conflict in Yemen continues its effect on food security, livelihoods, and the safety of the population. A decrease in local production impeded the arrival of commercial and humanitarian imports and an increase in fuel and food prices, and a spread in unemployment. More than two-thirds of the population of Yemen is at risk of hunger, and the country is in urgent need to save and preserve the livelihoods of its people.

Twenty of twenty-two governorates in Yemen are in the food emergency stage. According to World Food Program, the governorates of Al Hudaydah and Taiz, where a quarter of Yemen’s population lives, have recorded the highest malnutrition rate and are at risk of slipping into starvation.

More than 3 million people live in Al Hudaydah governorate, equivalent to 11% of the population of Yemen 65% of them live in rural areas that suffer from the decline and an absence of primary services. Among them is the Tihama area, which consists of scattered villages and residents living below the poverty line. The lack of sufficient food, medicine, and clean water led to Malnutrition, diseases, and epidemics in the region.

TKF continued to provide humanitarian aid. The first phase included three hundred and fifty food baskets valued at $20,000, which were distributed to the neediest residents in Al-Zahra, Deir Al-Baath, Deir Al-Faqih, Deir Al-Saghir, and the neighboring villages located in the Tihama area of Al Hudaydah governorate. This humanitarian campaign is part of the TKF relief program launched at the beginning of this year and aims to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to alleviate the suffering of the residents of those areas.

Simultaneously, the American National Museum of Civil Rights awarded Mrs. Tawakkol Karman, the Foundation's Board Chairman, the 2016 Freedom Award. In turn, Mrs. Karman donated it to Tihama relief, western Yemen.