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The auction to support the Yemen Canteen is back! From November 11 to 24, you can bid on unique items and experiences or offer your own in the Facebook group. Proceeds from the auction go to support Pomůžu jak můžu, helping to provide meals for families and snacks for children in Yemen. Join in, bid and purchase meaningful gifts that will help those who need it most.

8/21/2023, Ostrava – "Parents send their children to school so that they can eat at least a little," says the director of the Al Furrat public school in Sanaa, Yemen, Bushra A. Al Jandari. The mission of the Czech project „Do školy bez hladu" (To School Without Hunger"), which started in 2022 under the organization I help as I can, is being fulfilled. From August 19, 500 girls in greatest need will be receiving a snack every school day. And that's thanks to hundreds of donors from the Czech Republic and the world. It is often the only food the children get. Yemen is among the countries with the highest number of children suffering from malnutrition. There are five million children without access to education. Because of the conflict, the country is already losing its third generation of children. After eight years of continuous war, war crimes and blockade, it is still the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. More than 11 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance, with more than 540,000 of them under the age of five suffering from life-threatening malnutrition.

Doa is a fifth-grade student of one the few schools in war-affected Yemen. Doa, along with her five siblings, lives with her uncle. Her parents were killed in bomb attack and her youngest sister lost an eye in an airstrike.  Despite all of the aforementioned circumstances, Doa still believes in establishing world peace and in achieving her dream of becoming a doctor. What is more, Doa remains hopeful despite the fact that 5 million children in Yemen are without access to any kind of education. Pomůžu jak můžu has been working in Yemen since 2018 and has been in charge of running a canteen for the poorest people, mostly women, and children. The organization also provides individuals in Yemen with a hot meal every day. Thanks to the donors, the organization can help even further as since the month of September the organization has also been providing snacks for the poorest girls at the Al'Furat school in Sanaa. We know the school, Dou, her classmates, and teachers personally. Join us and help Doa and the other 500 girls at Al'Furat School in Sanaa, Yemen by encouraging them not to give up on their dreams and their hope to attend a school where they won't starve and hopefully one day change the world they live in. A month's worth of snacks for one schoolgirl costs just CZK 100.

We would like to express our gratitude for the support, which followed an article by an editor, Mr. Milan Rokos, on www.seznamzpravy.cz. Thank you for an article on the current situation in Yemen, because there are not many of them, not even in the world media. Even though there is a long history of diplomatic and business cooperation between the Czech Republic and Yemen.

Pomůžu jak můžu is again offering a Certificate of Donation. Buy a good deed for your loved ones. Help the children, to whom others have turned their backs, whom the war took their homes, families, and food. If you donate food for a month or two, for one child or their mothers, or the whole family, we will send you an original Certificate of Donation. As a bonus, you will receive one of the Yemeni irresistible recipes. At least you will be able to taste the delicious food that is currently almost impossible to get for most of the Yemeni people.

On Saturday 2 October, we were able to organize a meeting and a second-hand store at Centrum PANT in Ostrava, which we called ‘How ordinary women help ordinary women in the country, where children are dying from starvation and the world is silent about it’.

Thanks to the donations of our supporters, we are able not only to cook for 166 diners, but also to collect food, clothes, and other necessities for other people in need outside of our organization. ‘It is a great feeling of happiness and gratitude that our project, which is financed primarily by the Czech Republic, also motivates people in Yemen to donate what they can. It can be money, but also food, clothes, and toys. It either happens spontaneously or during some traditional holidays like Ramadan.” Describes Sabina Addailamy, the main initiator of our project.

Today, we present you with an interview, which was conducted by supporters of Pomůžu jak můžu. It’s a group of mothers who collect clothes and then sell them so that they can send us the money to support people in Yemen. In the introduction, you will also find one of the reasons that brought ‘our’ mothers to their charity activity.

In December 2020, an independent initiative of four women was started. They decided to give as much as they can to people who do not have anything and to support mothers and children in Yemen. They showed that anyone anywhere in the world can help. Even with small actions. Their original plan was to send food and clothing to children in Yemen, but that is not possible. The only thing that can be sent is money that they can use to buy food from locals. It is possible to collect clothes that are too small for children or adults.

Last week we received an email from our friend in Berlin. Some time ago, she decided to start a support in Germany, where she lives, for people in Yemen. She even engaged her husband, whose online fitness lessons may have been auctioned off to some of you. Now Martina and her husband Gabrielle have decided to use online fitness again. How? Read this article to see how Martina Teschnarova personally describes it.

After some time, Pavla Smetanová, a writer, journalist, and ambassador of Pomůžu jak můžu had a chat with Sabina about her life in Yemen. The interview was posted on her blog ostrovanka.cz in a section called Czechs in foreign lands and we are about to bring it to you here as well. We thank Pavla and wish you a pleasant reading.

In September, our kitchen has been opened for a whole year. We managed to establish it in Sana’a to feed the hungry people, and down below, you can find the goals we set for ourselves and the way we succeeded in reaching them.

In September, it was exactly one year since we, along with your support, managed to open the kitchen for the starving people in Sanaa. Below, you'll find the goals we set out to achieve and how we succeeded in fulfilling them.

Although the last news we have provided you with were published in July (or in terms of Facebook in September) we have been very busy recently. After the first wave of floods ruined our kitchen in August, Sabina launched an emergency plan – she started cooking in a temporary space while searching for a new place for establishing the new kitchen. It was not easy to find a spot close to people we take care of, yet in a span of a few weeks we managed to secure a suitable place in a local mosque. The people in there are going to repair it by themselves and they set a special rent for Pomůžu jak můžu, being just a third of its usual amount. The rent then will be spend on helping the people the mosque is taking care of.

The last update from Yemen was in July, with more recent news shared on Facebook on September. However, it is not that nothing is happening – in fact, quite the contrary. After the first wave of floods in August, we lost the space for our kitchen. However, Sabina quickly set up an emergency plan, began cooking with her team in temporary facilities, and started searching for a new place.