Around two adjacent ponds, each with a lot of dirt and a little water turned dark green, probably by sedimentation long ago, the colorful spectacle of crowds of women and children looks as if a carnival of some kind is being held here. If you are a stranger and look from afar, get closer and you will know another aspect of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

Children and women, some standing and others lying on the ground, all have empty 20-liter gallons, waiting for their turn to reach the only source of water that feeds the village. While most of the world's children spend their time in school or play and entertainment, there is a third task undertaken by the children of the village of Mazhab in the isolation of the mountain of the Doran Anas district. Here, as in many places in Yemen, all family members share the "trouble" of surviving the worst humanitarian crisis around the world.

Years ago, the only dilapidated water source in the village that lacked the minimum standards of hygiene was the only thing that did not enter the agenda of the people who faced many difficulties such as the erosion of their agricultural lands by torrential rains and overcame them. However, the problem of this water source needed an intervention greater than their modest ability.

“This source is old and over time its situation was deteriorating further, and we felt helpless as we had nothing to do, especially in a situation like this, but the situation is about to change due to the intervention of the Youth Leadership Development Foundation and the United Nations Organization for Agriculture,” says Mohammed, a resident of the village of Mazhab, who also works Within a team of villagers employed by the Youth Leadership Development Foundation for daily wages as part of the cash-for-work project aimed at finding sustainable solutions that increase the resilience of local communities during the crisis.