Impact Stories

Najiba’s Family At 50 years old, Najiba is disabled and living in a single room with her children and grandchildren—eight girls and four boys in all. Since her husband died, Najiba has relied on the goodwill of neighbors and initiatives like RSD’s food distributions to provide her family with a pathway toward prospering physically, mentally, […]

Assisting Internally Displaced People Abdo’s spinal cord injury has left him unable to work as he lives in protracted displacement with his nine children—six of whom have special needs. RSD’s food distributions contribute to the household’s future resourcefulness by supporting Abdo’s children to stay in school now, so they have better economic opportunities as adults.

Helping Those With Special Needs Living in the war-torn province of Taiz, Wadah is blind and responsible for a household that includes his five children and his sister—who are also all visually impaired. RSD’s food security program prioritizes them and other vulnerable families living on Yemen’s frontlines as the team works to realize the vision […]

Anisa’s Story Anisa is a breadwinner who has six children, three of whom have disabilities, and one of whom remains in the village with her mother while Anisa works selling firewood in the city. RSD’s food distributions are contributing to Anisa’s resourcefulness so she can meet all her children’s needs—including medications, food, water, and clothes.

Fathia’s Story RSD equips war-affected Yemenis like Fathia and her five children—who have been living in multi-dimensional poverty since the death of her husband—to achieve a level of food security that allows her children to go to school and succeed in their studies. Access to education now will strengthen their access to economic opportunities in […]

Al Azariq is a conflict-affected district in Yemen’s Al Dhale’ province, where political violence continues to occur sporadically. There, in the small community of Numan, volunteer teachers were instructing students in the shade of sparse trees since there was no school. Meanwhile other students were walking long distances to attend schools in other communities far […]

Yasmin’s husband used to work bringing fruits and vegetables from farms in Sa’ada to markets in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a. This not only provided food security for his family but also meant that he was an important part of the supply chain delivering food security to residents of Sana’a. When he was killed by an indiscriminate […]

In 2023, the Al Wahda Health Center in Al Dhale’s Al Azariq district was about to close. Al Azariq is a conflict-affected district, where political violence continues to occur sporadically, and the center was running out of medical supplies and short on other equipment needed to keep treating patients. That’s when the RSD team contacted […]

The province of Taiz has hosted active frontlines since the start of Yemen’s conflict in 2015. In 2022, even with a nationwide ceasefire officially observed for six months, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) project recorded 830 events of political violence across 22 districts of Taiz, resulting in 756 fatalities. By then, Habib’s […]