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Meet Hayat, she's 18 years old and lives in Yemen.

In 2022 War Child UK were able to provide support to 256,700 children and adults - making it our strongest year ever.

Meet Emlaq, aged 13, who lives in Yemen.

Noor Hassan lives with his family in a camp for Internally Displaced People in Yemen. War Child helped them to buy two sheep and some necessities which opened new possibilities to improve their living conditions.

The crisis in Yemen has been deemed one of the worst in our lifetime. Here are 8 things you may want to know about the situation in Yemen.

In March 2022, we announced that the UK government would be matching public donations to our Unlock a Generation appeal.

My life and that of my children turned upside down when we lost my husband in an airstrike. In a heartbeat, everything changed.

The impacts of COVID-19 on Hamas’ family left her unable to go to school. This story is all too common for families in Yemen, who must place daily survival over their children’s education.

War Child UK, the specialist charity for children affected by conflict, has warned that while the world is focused on the pandemic and the race to roll out a vaccine, some of the world’s worst and most violent conflicts are slipping out of control.  

Coronavirus is creating a children’s emergency, dragging alarming numbers of boys and girls into poverty and child labour in conflict-affected countries.

The UN estimates that in conflict zones, for every one rape that is reported, between 10 and 20 rapes are not.

War Child's new report, Rethink Child Soldiers, outlines how current efforts to reintegrate ex-child soldiers back into communities aren't good enough.