Beyond the immediate effects of hunger are the long-term consequences of a disrupted education both in terms of a country’s economic and human potential. In countries marred by conflict and the resulting economic downturn, going to school is a daily struggle for many children and their families. I did not want him to know that I was hungry so that he does not offer me anything. “My classmate asked me why I was not writing anything, and I simply said that ‘I was not in the mood’. I tried to put up with the hunger pangs, but it was just too hard,” says Salman Mohammed, an 8 th grader in Marib City. “One day at school I was so hungry and exhausted. Do you remember a day when you left your school lunch at home or had no time to eat breakfast? Some children in Yemen experience that every day, not because they forgot their lunch or slept in, but because there is little or no food at home.