Food Security, Nutrition, and Access to Water: an Integrated Humanitarian Response in Yemen

More than 3,500 students benefit every day from school meals and a safer, more inclusive learning environment.

Yemen continues to face a humanitarian crisis of exceptional scale, where food insecurity, malnutrition, and the collapse of essential services are causing long-term hardship for the population. Between September 2025 and February 2026, 52% of the population —more than 18 million people–, experienced acute food insecurity, including around 41,000 people facing catastrophic famine conditions.

To address this situation, Triangle Génération Humanitaire (TGH), with the support of the Centre de Crise et de Soutien (CDCS), implemented activities combining food security, nutrition, and access to water.

In Aden, a school feeding programme was developed in several schools to provide students with daily meals, rehabilitate school kitchens, and raise children’s awareness of hygiene and nutrition. Today, more than 3,500 students receive a daily meal tailored to their nutritional needs. The project also includes awareness-raising activities in schools on hygiene, nutrition, and good health practices for both students and educational staff.

At the same time, renovation work on water and sanitation systems was carried out in the schools and communities involved.

In the long term, the project aims to reduce waterborne diseases, improve food security, and promote access to education by strengthening an inclusive school environment where every child, including children with specific needs, can participate and learn in safer conditions.

The project also seeks to expand its impact in order to reach an increasing number of beneficiaries beyond the schools directly supported.