Famine alert in Yemen: millions of children starving after 3 years of blockade
The video warns that millions of children in Yemen are starving after three years of blockade on food and medicine. In the text, dated 21 July 2017, Mona Relief, the Yemen Organisation for Humanitarian Relief and Development, describes how it began.
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Mona Relief is a national, independent, non-governmental and non-profit organisation based in Yemen. Its work focuses mainly on humanitarian relief.
The idea behind it was to find a way around the blockade on Yemen and help people displaced by the war. With this idea, the organisation started the "20 for Yemen" project on Twitter. Within 10 days, it raised $4200. This was enough to feed almost 150 families for a month.
The name Mona has a story of its own. Mona is the woman who donated the first $1000. It paid for the organisation's first food delivery to internally displaced people in the area of Nuqim in Sana'a.