‘Like a firemen’: A Yemeni household’s everyday monetary battles

What’s your cash worth? A series from the cutting edge of the cost-of-living crisis, where individuals who have actually been struck difficult share their regular monthly expenditures.
Names: Abdulla Ali and Arwa Ahmed (a pseudonym to safeguard her personal privacy)
Ages: 45 and 42
Occupations: Abdulla works as a day labourer and his better half Arwa is a part-time domestic employee
Deal With: Their 5 kids – children Qasem (12), Asem (10), Basem (4), Hazim (2) and child Basima (6)
Reside In: A first-floor, two-room apartment or condo in Al-Thawra district on the borders of Sanaa, the Yemeni capital.
December home earnings: 95,000 ($170.3)* Yemeni riyals. According to the Yemen-based Research Studies and Financial Library, a household of 5 in Sanaa requires a minimum of $106.2 each month for food.
Overall expenditures for the month: 93,000 Yemeni riyals ($166.7)