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            Baby Hunger Appeal

            Basam* attends a Concern supported health clinic in Yemen

            Millions of babies are facing severe acute malnutrition. This Christmas, make sure food is coming for them.

            Help babies like Basam this Christmas

            • 24.5 million babies

              in the 15 countries most affected by hunger are severely malnourished

            • Emergency therapeutic food

              can help malnourished babies regain their strength 

            • Your donation can save lives

              By delivering vital treatment and emergency therapeutic food 

            Your generosity can provide emergency therapeutic food for malnourished children.

            What we're doing to help malnourished children

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            Support health clinics
            to diagnose vulnerable children
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            Deliver emergency therapeutic food
            to help babies recover from malnutrition
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            Provide check-ups
            to children recovering at home
            Health and nutrition counselling being delivered to group in Yemen
            Concern’s Yemen Country Director Victor Moses meets and mother and her a child at a health clinic supported by Concern in one of the displacement camps in Yemen
            Aalia*'s mother receives the next round of nutrition supplements at Concern supported health clinic
            Health worker Hamdi Ibrahim Omar at Siinkadheer Health Facility, Mogadishu
            Anas* is screened at a health clinic
            Concern Health and Nutrition Officer Saleh Hassan discusses the IEC materials with midwife Waseefa during a routine monitoring visit to the Concern supported health clinic
            Pharmacist organising medicine in Concern-supported health clinic
            Concern’s Yemen Country Director Victor Moses chat to children in a displacement camp in Yemen
            Health and nutrition counselling being delivered to group in Yemen
            Concern’s Yemen Country Director Victor Moses meets and mother and her a child at a health clinic supported by Concern in one of the displacement camps in Yemen
            Aalia*'s mother receives the next round of nutrition supplements at Concern supported health clinic
            Health worker Hamdi Ibrahim Omar at Siinkadheer Health Facility, Mogadishu
            Anas* is screened at a health clinic
            Concern Health and Nutrition Officer Saleh Hassan discusses the IEC materials with midwife Waseefa during a routine monitoring visit to the Concern supported health clinic
            Pharmacist organising medicine in Concern-supported health clinic
            Concern’s Yemen Country Director Victor Moses chat to children in a displacement camp in Yemen
            Health and nutrition counselling being delivered to group in Yemen
            Concern’s Yemen Country Director Victor Moses meets and mother and her a child at a health clinic supported by Concern in one of the displacement camps in Yemen
            Aalia*'s mother receives the next round of nutrition supplements at Concern supported health clinic
            Health worker Hamdi Ibrahim Omar at Siinkadheer Health Facility, Mogadishu
            Anas* is screened at a health clinic
            Concern Health and Nutrition Officer Saleh Hassan discusses the IEC materials with midwife Waseefa during a routine monitoring visit to the Concern supported health clinic
            Pharmacist organising medicine in Concern-supported health clinic
            Concern’s Yemen Country Director Victor Moses chat to children in a displacement camp in Yemen
            Health and nutrition counselling being delivered to group in Yemen
            Concern’s Yemen Country Director Victor Moses meets and mother and her a child at a health clinic supported by Concern in one of the displacement camps in Yemen
            Aalia*'s mother receives the next round of nutrition supplements at Concern supported health clinic
            Health worker Hamdi Ibrahim Omar at Siinkadheer Health Facility, Mogadishu

            Concern in action

            Our teams in countries like Yemen, Chad and Somalia are working with the help of your donations to find and treat malnourished children.
            Your generosity can support our life-saving work this Christmas.

            Basam's story

            Basam* receiving a follow-up check-up

            Basam's family were displaced by conflict

            Basam, 10 months old, lives in a camp in Yemen with his parents and siblings.
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            You can help malnourished children like Basam recover at home this Christmas.

            Here's what your donation could do

            Select an amount

            €34

            could provide three weeks of emergency therapeutic food for a severely malnourished baby

            €68

            could provide a full course of emergency therapeutic food for a severely malnourished baby

            €255

            could provide a full malnutrition treatment for three babies including screening, medications, therapeutic food, hygiene supplies and follow-up care