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 livelihoods 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.
We are responding to the dangerous escalation of violence in Lebanon, where children and families are facing ongoing attacks, displaced from their homes and unable to rely on an overstretched and under-sourced health system. UNICEF is already responding, mobilising 100 tons of emergency medical supplies to hospitals facing severe shortages, but your support is still needed.
Many children are facing a harsh winter without warm clothes, fuel, and shelter. To help, we are supplying warm blankets and winter clothing to places like Afghanistan and providing power and heating in Ukraine, helping families endure the bitter months ahead.
Other crises we’re responding to include the fast expanding outbreak of mpox in countries across sub-Saharan Africa, increasing violence and food insecurity in Haiti, and the devastating hunger catastrophe in Sudan.
Please donate to our Children’s Emergency Fund to help us reach children and families in emergencies like these.
Ready to support children affected by conflict
The number of countries in active armed conflicts is at its highest in 30 years. More than 43 million children have been displaced by 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:
The eastern regions of Democratic Republic of Congo are experiencing a complex humanitarian crisis with conflict, climate-related disasters and disease outbreaks creating a deadly cocktail for children. In response, we are scaling up health, child protection and cash assistance programmes in order to meet the intensifying emergency.
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.
