Every second, we’re racing to reach children in emergencies with lifesaving care. We can only be there with your help.
From Gaza to Lebanon, Sudan and Ukraine and beyond, children can’t wait for lifesaving support. With the help of people like you, UNICEF is there before, during, and after emergencies – delivering critical support and supplies including safe water, lifesaving nutrition and medical care to children who need it most. But the scale of need is growing, with over 473 million children – more than one in five globally – caught in brutal conflicts around the world.
2,200+
More than 2,200 children have been reported killed or injured since the escalation of violence in the Middle East in February.
390,000
More than 390,000 children have been displaced since the escalation of violence in Lebanon.
1.6 million
Years of conflict have left over 1.6 million children lacking access to safe water services in Ukraine.
Donate to Children in Crisis Before 30 June
Children can’t wait for lifesaving support. Make your end of financial year tax-deductible donation before 30 June to provide children in emergencies with the essential healthcare, nutrition and clean water they urgently need.
In places like Gaza, families are being pushed to the brink. Your tax-deductible gift can help UNICEF reach them with lifesaving support.
"Living in a tent is extremely difficult. There is no hygiene, no privacy, and everything – food, clothes, bedding – is mixed with sand."
Right now, families like Aya’s are desperate for help. With the end of financial year approaching, you have a powerful opportunity to act. As a 100 per cent donor-funded organisation, it is only with the generosity of people like you that we can scale up our response for children in emergencies around the world, in places like Gaza and beyond. It starts with you.
Your tax-deductible gift today can help UNICEF reach more children in crisis with crucial support, including safe water for drinking and household needs, lifesaving nutrition to help treat children with severe malnutrition, and vaccinations to help protect children from preventable diseases like polio and measles. We’re on the ground in as little as 48 hours after an emergency, and we remain as long as it takes to help communities recover. And it’s all possible thanks to people like you.
Donate to Children in Crisis Before 30 June
Children can’t wait for lifesaving support. Make your end of financial year tax-deductible donation before 30 June to provide children in emergencies with the essential healthcare, nutrition and clean water they urgently need.
How will my donation help children?
Your gift will help our teams on the ground reach more children and families around the world, wherever the need is greatest. From ready-to-use therapeutic food and water purification tablets to lifesaving vaccines, tax-deductible donations like yours could help us provide immediate and long-term assistance to every child, no matter who they are or where they live.
- $500 could help provide 104,875 water purification tablets, enough to create safe drinking water for 1,128 children for a month.
- $760 could help provide 1,512 sachets of Plumpy'Nut®, a therapeutic paste. Just three sachets a day for six weeks can help a child recover from severe malnutrition.
- $1,000 could help provide 2,760 vaccine doses, ensuring that children's futures are protected against preventable but dangerous diseases.
With a monthly donation, you can make an even bigger impact by giving children in emergencies the ongoing support needed to rebuild their futures.
- 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.
- 22¢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 cents went to admin costs, such as keeping your personal data safe.
How do we use each dollar donated?
