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Dear John,
In March, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that if coronavirus came to Yemen, it would mean a ‘perfect storm’ of a humanitarian disaster. Unfortunately, that storm has now arrived. After five years of war, Yemen’s health systems are on the verge of collapse. This is in a country where over 3.6 million people have fled their homes to escape the deadly conflict. Where malnutrition and cholera stalk families every day. At least 80% of people live below the poverty line. Many are surviving on just one meal of bread and tea a day.
Over 24 million Yemeni people depend on humanitarian aid for survival and urgently need your help. Coronavirus has made a dire situation even more deadly.
Families in Yemen need immediate assistance before it’s too late. Today, you can help them survive with an Emergency Coronavirus Payment.
When you give US$ 85 for an Emergency Coronavirus Payment, you can help displaced families access lifesaving medical care, clean water and safe shelter. And right now, emergency payments are the best way we have of helping people stay alive.
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Because of the continuing pandemic, our access to people in many areas is limited and distribution of vital aid like tents and blankets has been disrupted. In this difficult situation, emergency payments - which you can help provide - give people the means to protect themselves and their families.
With your donation, a mother could buy the nutritious food that gives her children the strength to fight off infection, a father could isolate at home, rather than having to go out to try and earn a few dollars to pay rent. And a family could be able to buy soap to protect itself as the virus spreads through Yemen. This is a life-or-death situation, and we need your help urgently!
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Please give now to help a displaced Yemeni family survive coronavirus.
When this crisis emerged, António Guterres - the UN Secretary-General - said that in the fight against coronavirus the world was only as strong as its weakest health system. Tragically, with each passing day, it’s becoming increasingly clear that war-torn Yemen is one of those weak links. Over half of the country’s hospitals have been destroyed in the conflict. There is only one oxygen cylinder per 2.5 million people.
In over 18% of districts there is not even a single doctor. Not one.
We at UNHCR are doing what we can to support the devastated health system, but in these harsh circumstances saving lives means helping protect people from coronavirus in the first place. Emergency Coronavirus Payments are the best way of doing that.
Please give what you can to help displaced Yemeni families live through this.
Astrid van Genderen Stort
UNHCR Head of Emergencies and Communications, PSP
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