Severe flooding spreads across Southeast Asia
Devastating floods have swept across Southeast Asia – from Sri Lanka and Thailand to Vietnam and Indonesia – bringing record rainfall, landslides, and flash floods that have taken lives and displaced thousands. Across the region, critical infrastructure has been damaged, and essential services like healthcare, education, and child protection are severely disrupted. Children are among the most vulnerable, facing heightened risks to their health, safety, and wellbeing.
UNICEF is working alongside local partners to deliver urgent support, but we need your help to make sure every child affected can be reached.
Since World War II, children’s needs have never been greater. Together, we can help children survive.
This holiday season, millions of children’s futures are at stake due to a series of cascading crises, from conflict and displacement to deadly disease outbreaks, famine conditions and climate disasters. In places like Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, and Afghanistan, the need for support has never been greater and a growing disregard for children’s rights risk reversing decades of progress for children around the world.
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A third of children under five around the world suffer from a form of malnutrition.
320,000 children
The entire population of children under five in the Gaza Strip – more than 320,000 children – are at risk of acute malnutrition.
5 million children
Over 5 million children in Sudan have been forced to flee their homes – a staggering average of 10,000 girls and boys displaced every single day – making it the world's largest child displacement crisis.
We can’t stop emergencies from happening, but we can reach more children with critical and lifesaving support. Thanks to the generosity of people like you, UNICEF has helped save more children's lives than any other organisation around the world. We operate the world’s largest humanitarian warehouse, and your donation allows us to deliver safe drinking water and therapeutic food to children in as little as 48 hours after an emergency or disaster strike and stay on the ground as long as it takes to recover. Together, we can deliver fast, fearless, lifesaving support for every child. No matter what.
"Fearless deliveries are about the quiet bravery of our UNICEF teams and local partners, who risk their own safety because they know what’s at stake: the life and future of children."
Your generous gift today can help deliver therapeutic food and safe drinking water directly into the hands of children and their families, before it's too late.
Help deliver lifesaving supplies to children
Your generous gift today can help deliver therapeutic food and safe drinking water directly into the hands of children and their families, before it's too late.
"We were displaced to the south of Gaza at the beginning of the war. When Tala was four months old, she developed malnutrition, and I followed up on her case there, and she improved at that time. But after returning to the north and after the ceasefire ended, her health condition worsened again. I am here now for follow-up and to receive nutrition supplements."
After more than two years of relentless bombardment, displacement, and severe restrictions on humanitarian aid, children in Gaza are starving to death. Half a million people are enduring famine, and the entire population of children under five – over 320,000 children – are now at risk of acute malnutrition. Since the start of 2025, there has been more than a 500 per cent increase in malnutrition cases, and the situation is only getting worse as the conflict drags on. For children like one-year-old Tala, their lives are under threat before they have even begun.
Despite the ongoing challenges, UNICEF teams remain on the ground in Gaza, distributing essential supplies including ready‑to‑use therapeutic food, clean water and vital healthcare to children like Tala. But we need your help to reach more children in need in places like Gaza and beyond.
Together, we can quickly and fearlessly deliver lifesaving supplies that protect children’s health, safety and futures.
Help deliver lifesaving supplies to children
In this season of giving and generosity, help children impacted by war, conflict, natural disaster, and famine, survive and recover. Send fast, fearless, and lifesaving support to children in places like Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and Afghanistan.
How will my donation help children?
Your donation, no matter how big or small, provides life-saving essentials such as clean water, therapeutic food, and medical support to children affected by emergencies, helping them survive and recover quickly, no matter who they are or where they live. Generous gifts like yours will help our teams on the ground reach more children and families when emergencies strike, and long after a crisis has left the media headlines.
- $100 could provide 16,667 water purification tablets, each able to create up to 5 litres of clean drinking water.
- $135 could provide 252 sachets of lifesaving therapeutic food that could help treat two children with severe malnutrition.
- $500 could help provide over 80 cans of therapeutic milk for babies and young children who are extremely malnourished and cannot tolerate normal food.
- 78¢on average, 78 cents to every dollar spent for the past three years went directly to helping children in need, including long-term programs, emergency response and community education.
- 15¢on average, 15 cents to every dollar spent for the past three years went to essential fundraising costs that helped us generate more impact for children.
- 7¢on average, 7 cents to every dollar spent for the past three years went towards our admin costs, such as keeping your personal data safe.
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Help deliver lifesaving supplies to children
In this season of giving and generosity, help children impacted by war, conflict, natural disaster, and famine, survive and recover. Send fast, fearless, and lifesaving support to children in places like Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and Afghanistan.