
“60 Minutes” Features Yemen On the Brink of Famine
CBS Correspondent Scott Pelley reports on the crisis in Yemen, where more than 20 million people don’t know where their next meal is coming from.

CBS Correspondent Scott Pelley reports on the crisis in Yemen, where more than 20 million people don’t know where their next meal is coming from.

Meet Fadl and Aisha: two Yemeni parents struggling to provide the bare necessities for their brood of five children.

“We do not have much food left now but at least we do know that some help will be on the way soon.”

Because of funding shortfalls, we’re forced to make impossible choices about who receives food in Yemen. But you can help.

How You Can Fight Famine for Children in Yemen

Do you know what percentage of families are coping with hunger across Yemen right now? The numbers might shock you.

In hard-to-reach areas of the war-torn state, children are suffering from a level of malnutrition that has left almost half of all children countrywide “irreversibly stunted.”

When violence or natural disaster strikes vulnerable communities, good data on the hunger that often results can be hard to come by. Learn how mobile phones in the most remote and dangerous corners of our world are changing how we understand and fight hunger.

Violence across the country has made an already dangerously and desperately hungry nation that much hungrier.

By promoting education and providing good nutrition, we’re empowering the next generation of inventors, artists and leaders.