After more than a decade of conflict, Yemen is facing one of world’s worst emergencies. We are working around the clock to protect children, through providing access to primary health care and gender-based violence support, as well as reaching people with critical safe drinking water and sanitation supplies.
Donate to our Children’s Emergency Fund
Conflict and natural disasters put millions of children’s lives at risk every year. Our Children’s Emergency Fund helps us to act quickly when emergencies strike.
We operate the largest humanitarian warehouse in the world so we can:
- Respond within 48 hours with life-saving supplies and healthcare
- Protect children from the short term and long term impact of conflict
- Help children physically and psychologically
You can help children wherever they need life-saving support. Just £10 a month over a year could help bring 3 malnourished children back to health.
How are we supporting children and families globally?
Together with the government and our partners, we are responding rapidly to the needs of children and families affected by earthquakes in Venezuela, including providing hygiene supplies, maternal care kits and access to safe water.
We are also supporting children and families affected by natural disasters around the world, including:
- Earthquakes in Colombia and Afghanistan
- Impacts of Hurricane Melissa across Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba
- Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka
- Severe flooding in Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines
Ready to support children affected by conflict
The number of countries in active armed conflicts is at its highest in 30 years. In fact, more than 48.8 million children have had to leave their homes because of it and many others have been injured, killed or lost family members.
We continue to support children and families affected by conflict and instability across the Middle East, including in Yemen, Lebanon and Iran.
We are also supporting children and families in Sudan, where conflict and a severe malnutrition crisis continue to affect millions of children.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, 8 million children need humanitarian assistance as conflict, displacement, disease outbreaks and malnutrition continue to put children’s lives at risk.
Article 38 of the UN Convention on Child Rights states ‘governments must do everything they can to protect and care for children affected by war and armed conflicts.’ Too often, children and families are left to fend for themselves.
Children are always innocent
That is why we work with governments to ensure they stay true to their commitment to child protection. We call for ceasefires and humanitarian corridors to allow access and safe passage for children and families. We are always ready to deliver immediate support.
Please donate to our Children’s Emergency Fund for crises now and crises yet to come.
Where has our Children’s Emergency Fund helped?
Whenever you see a humanitarian crisis in the news, UNICEF is ready to support where needed. Our Children’s Emergency Fund means we can also reach children in crises that don’t make the headlines.
Thanks to donations like yours to our Children’s Emergency Fund, we’ve sent vital supplies to children and families across the globe, from Mozambique to Armenia, Venezuela to Bangladesh.
Here are three examples of how the fund is supporting children:
After almost 14 years since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, children and their families are still struggling to cope. Children face continued violence, multiple displacements and the impact of the ongoing economic crisis.
Children and families in Syria need food, water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. There is still a significant shortage of adequate shelter.
Seven years since fleeing persecution in Myanmar, Rohingya families are still living precariously in huge refugee camps in Southern Bangladesh. To prevent the children living in these camps becoming a “lost generation,” we have enrolled 300,000 children in classes and continue to establish learning centres and safe spaces for children at risk of abuse and violence.
