Yemeni Mothers Die of Hunger to Feed their Children, Real Stories

The young mother stepped on the scale to the doctor. Even with all her black clothes, she weighed 84 lbs only 38 kg. A pregnant mother, but starving herself to feed her children.
It may not be enough to save them.
The doctor’s clinic is covered with dozens of pictures of poor children who came through the charity’s clinic in Aden, victims of a three-year war in Yemen that left millions of people on the verge of famine.
Mothers like Mother Farm are often the only defense against hunger that has killed thousands. They skip meals, and they sleep to escape from nibbling in their stomachs. They conceal skeletal bodies and lean bodies in wide black robes and headscarves.
The doctor asked the mother to return to the balance that was carrying her son, Mazra. At the age of 17 months, he weighed 5.8 kg (12.8 lbs) – about half the normal weight of his age.
Show all signs of “severe acute malnutrition”, the most dangerous phase of hunger. His feet and feet were swollen, and he did not get enough protein. When the doctor pressed his finger into the skin of his legs, the indentation remained.
About 2.9 million women and children suffer from acute malnutrition. Another 400,000 children are fighting for their lives, in the same dire situation.
Nearly a third of Yemen’s population – 8.4 million of its 29 million people – depend entirely on food aid or else they will starve. This figure grew by a quarter over the past year.