Giving Compass' Take:

• This Global Citizen posts highlights the devastation in Yemen due to violence and famine, referred to as "the worst humanitarian crisis in the world," according to the UN.

• What can international organizations and funders due to provide relief to this population, especially vulnerable children? It will take a massive collaborative effort, but the urgency is clear.

• Here's a little more background of the bloodshed leading up to Yemen's current state.

Just weeks after UN agencies issued warnings about the risk of death facing hundreds of thousands of malnourished children in Yemen, international aid organization Save the Children has issued a report that 85,000 children under the age of 5 may have already died due to hunger and disease since 2015, the Associated Press reported.

The organization, which called the estimate “conservative,” based their approximation on UN data on mortality rates from severe acute malnutrition, which has plagued more than 1.3 million children since March 2015 when conflict escalated between the Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, according to the Guardian.

“For every child killed by bombs and bullets, dozens are starving to death and it’s entirely preventable,” Tamer Kirolos, Save the Children’s Yemen director, said. “Children who die in this way suffer immensely.”

Read the full article about the hunger crisis worsening in Yemen by Jackie Marchildon at Global Citizen.