In the midst conflict in Yemen, the high levels of malnutrition are compounded by lack of nutritious food, poor feeding practices, disease outbreaks and deteriorating economy. Most Yemenis are struggling to meet life’s basic needs with the deepening economic crisis, millions of children and pregnant and lactating women are at risk of being pushed into acute food insecurity and many more children could fall into life-threatening severe acute malnutrition.
Entisar Darjan is a health worker in Al Mtoon district- Al Jawf governorate has been recently trained to provide basic health and nutrition services for local community. When her working hours in the health facility are over, Intisar goes to visit pregnant and lactating women to educate them about the importance of visiting the health facility in order to take their anthropometric measurements and to provide them with nutrition supplies to avoid malnutrition. With great effort, Entisar was able to persuade many women to visit the health facility. This initiative has led to an improvement in the health facility performance as increasing the number of admissions PLW was obvious comparing to previous months “thanks to you, I already can see the impact of my work in the community”.
 
YFCA in partnership with WFP has started implementing the promotion of preventive and lifesaving nutrition intervention in Almtoon – Al Jawf since August 2021.