After almost 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 respond to an emergency immediately. 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 conflict and its long-term impacts.
- Help children physically and psychologically.
How are we supporting children and families globally?
We are working with our partners and local communities to respond in emergencies like the category 3 Cyclone Kalmaegi that is sweeping across the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. With our partners and local communities, we are helping to ensure continued access to clean water, health care, nutrition, and more.
We are also responding to the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Northern Afghanistan, putting thousands of lives at risk.
In regions vulnerable to disasters, our Children’s Emergency Fund allows us to prepare vital supplies and invest in our response plan, enabling us to act immediately to support affected families.
Many children and families around the globe will struggle to survive the previous harsh winter without warm clothes, fuel, and shelter.
To help, we are delivering supplies such as:
- Warm blankets
- Winter clothing for children in countries like Afghanistan and Syria.
- Power and heating in Ukraine to help families survive the bitter winter months.
Furthermore, other crises we’re responding to include the devastating conflict and malnutrition catastrophe in Sudan, conflict in Lebanon, escalating conflict and weather disasters in Myanmar, Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean, the outbreak of mpox in sub-Saharan Africa and increasing violence and food insecurity in Haiti.
Despite how much we have achieved together with our partners and supporters, our resources are limited, and the demand for life-saving supplies is growing. Please donate to our Children’s Emergency Fund to help us reach children and families in emergencies.
Help protect children in the Democratic Republic of Congo
We are responding to an increase in violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Across the country, 6.5 million people, including 2.6 million children, are displaced. Escalations in conflict have caused hundreds of thousands more to flee their homes. Many have had to move several times in just a few weeks and urgently need clean water, healthy food, and medical care. We are providing essential help, but our resources are quickly running out. We need your urgent support.
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 43 million children have had to leave their homes because of conflict and many others have been injured, killed or left without a family.
Even though 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 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. 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.
