“From an ICU bed in [Yemen], an eight-year-old girl named Zahra begged UNICEF and her medical team to let her go home. She explained that her father couldn’t afford both food and medical expenses… [The 2.1 million children suffering from acute malnutrition] are not just numbers on a page. These are millions of individual tragedies. Millions of blighted futures. And millions of parents making the gut-wrenching choice between food and medical care for their children.”
- Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director |