Story | 01 October 2018
At 4, Batol Yahiya should be bouncing around and playing. Instead, she is lying in a hospital bed, receiving treatment for severe malnutrition. The war that has been the backdrop to most of her life has deprived her — and an estimated 1.8 million children under 5 — of the nutritious food she needs to grow up healthy.
Every ten minutes, a child dies in Yemen due to preventable causes.