The most important aid Yemen needs right now is food to save its youngest children from dangerous malnutrition. UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) are calling for arsenals of the nutritious peanut paste plumpy'nut to feed children in Yemen.
Impoverished Yemen has one of the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world. WFP says "half of Yemen's children are chronically malnourished." When a small child does not receive proper nutrients in the first 1000 days of life, devastating physical or mental damage will occur.
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