Our Programs
Providing various programs
Pure Hands delivers its mission through three complementary programmatic pillars, designed to link immediate crisis response with longer-term recovery and stability. Our work spans life-saving and life-sustaining assistance, resilient, climate-responsive development, and ultimately to strengthened social cohesion and peaceful communities. Across all pillars, our work is guided by humanitarian principles and a strong commitment to accountability, protection, gender equality, disability inclusion, and conflict sensitivity.
Food Security
Focuses on food basket distribution across the country.
Health
Delivering urgent health care services.
WASH
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) projects.
Shelter
Finding a new home for the internally displaced.
Child Protection
Protecting the children of Yemen one orphan at a time.
Education
Building and funding schools to empower Yemen’s future.
Who We Help
Target Beneficiaries
Pure Hands works with people most affected by conflict, displacement, economic hardship, and climate-related shocks. Our programs prioritize individuals and communities facing the greatest barriers to safety, basic services, and sustainable livelihoods, with a strong focus on dignity, inclusion, and accountability.
We primarily support conflict-affected and displaced populations, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, and vulnerable host communities. This includes households experiencing severe food insecurity, families who have lost homes and livelihoods, and communities exposed to recurrent climate shocks such as droughts and floods.
Across all programs, we place women, girls, boys, and youth at the center of our response. We prioritize children at risk of malnutrition and interrupted education, women and girls facing heightened protection risks, and youth affected by unemployment, social exclusion, and conflict-related stress. We also ensure inclusive access for persons with disabilities, older people, and other marginalized groups.
Through our emergency, development, climate resilience, and social cohesion programs, Pure Hands supports communities not only to survive crises, but to recover safely, rebuild livelihoods, strengthen social cohesion, and contribute to more resilient and peaceful futures.
Gender Distribution:
Men | 2,896,633 (24%)
Women | 3,142,112 (26%)
Boys | 2,964,016 (24.5%)
Girls | 3,088,071 (25.5%)
1. Emergency Humanitarian Response
2. Sustainable Development & Climate Resilience
3. Social Cohesion Program & Peace & Human Development
Sector Overview Pure Hands’ Humanitarian and Development Response
Emergency Food Security & Agriculture (FSAC – Emergency)
Pure Hands delivers life-saving food assistance and emergency cash support to households affected by conflict, displacement, and climate-related shocks such as floods. Interventions include in-kind food distributions, cash and voucher assistance, and rapid livelihood protection measures to stabilize food consumption and reduce negative coping strategies.
Emergency Response Reach (2013–2025)
Emergency WASH
Pure Hands provides rapid access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services during emergencies to prevent disease outbreaks and protect public health. Activities include emergency water trucking, rehabilitation of water points, sanitation facilities, and hygiene promotion in crisis-affected communities and displacement sites.
Emergency Response Reach: Integrated within the Emergency Humanitarian Response Program reaching 11.2 million individuals cumulatively.
Shelter and Non-Food Items (NFIs)
Pure Hands supports displaced and flood-affected households through temporary shelter solutions and essential household items, helping families meet basic needs and maintain dignity during emergencies. This includes shelter materials, bedding, kitchen kits, and seasonal NFIs.
Emergency Response Reach: Delivered as part of multi-sector emergency assistance reaching millions of crisis-affected people.
Health (Emergency and Development)
Pure Hands supports life-saving health services during emergencies and strengthens health system functionality through development programming. Interventions include emergency medical support, provision of medicines and supplies, rehabilitation of health facilities, and capacity strengthening of health workers.
Cumulative Health Impact (2013–2025): Health interventions contribute to emergency and development reach, including 130 health facilities rehabilitated and 100+ health workers trained, within broader programmatic reach.
Education (Emergency and Development)
Pure Hands ensures continuity of learning during emergencies and invests in long-term education recovery and quality improvement. Activities include temporary learning spaces, education supplies, school rehabilitation and construction, teacher incentives, and skills development.
Education Reach: Implemented across emergency and development programming, contributing to millions of children and youth supported as part of cumulative program reach.
Protection (Including GBV, Child Protection, and MHPSS)
Pure Hands delivers protection services during emergencies and recovery, addressing risks faced by women, children, and other vulnerable groups. Interventions include protection monitoring, referrals, GBV risk mitigation, child protection support, and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS).
Protection Impact: Protection activities are mainstreamed across emergency and development programs, supporting safe, dignified access to services and community recovery.
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH – Development)
Under development programming, Pure Hands implements durable WASH solutions that strengthen resilience to climate stress. Activities include rehabilitation and construction of water systems, sanitation facilities, and environmental health improvements.
Development Reach (2013–2025): Part of 11.4 million individuals and 5.0 million households reached under the Sustainable Development & Climate Resilience Program.
Climate Change & Environment
Pure Hands implements standalone climate and environmental actions and integrates climate resilience across development and emergency programming. Activities include climate-resilient WASH, renewable energy solutions, climate-smart livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, flood response, and climate shock assessments.
Climate-Responsive Impact: Climate and environmental actions are embedded across development and emergency portfolios contributing to large-scale cumulative reach while supporting adaptation, recovery, and loss & damage response.
Supply Chain Management & In-Kind Assistance
Pure Hands maintains strong supply chain and field logistics readiness, enabling the delivery of large-scale in-kind humanitarian and medical assistance. Since 2017, this capability has supported emergency response and essential service continuity across multiple sectors.
In-Kind Logistics Impact (2017–2025):
130+ in-kind shipments delivered
Supporting hospitals, schools, displacement sites, and community facilities.
Contributing to millions of people supported through strengthened services
Pure Hands 2022 Impact report
Together we have made a difference! Although 2022 presented a year of many challenges for our communities across the globe, all thanks to your generous support, we were able to reach more than 500,000 beneficiaries in Yemen. Take a peek at our Annual Report for 2022 to enjoy the journey of impact we were able to create together! Â