UNICEF

Thinking of sponsoring a child?

Join our family of Global Parents and help transform the lives of children throughout the world!

By becoming a Global Parent, you're supporting vulnerable children no matter where they live, providing vital medicine, clean water, food, and school supplies. We’ll keep you up to date with how your generous support is being put to work to make a huge difference to children everywhere.

UNICEF doesn’t receive any money from the UN. We rely on monthly donations from a passionate family of Global Parents. From right here in Australia, they help our teams reach vulnerable children in 190 countries. Become a Global Parent today.

How your regular donations can help children everywhere

A child smiling, eating a spoonful of UNICEF-supplied therapeutic food aka Plumpy'Nut or life-saving peanut butter

50c a day can provide 9 children like Zoulah in Niger with a days worth of life-saving food

A UNICEF health-worker immunised a child in Yemen as part of a measles and rubella vaccination drive

$1 a day can protect 49 kids like Mohammed in Yemen from measles with vaccines

A child smiling, holding educational and recreational supplies she received during a UNICEF distribution in Antigua

$2.50 a day can equip 10 girls & boys like Myra in Antigua with school supplies

With your donation, millions of children receive help

In 2018, UNICEF helped the world's children in 285 humanitarian situations

20 million children vaccinated against measles

43 million people accessed safe water

7 million children were able to go to school

START SUPPORTING CHILDREN TODAY

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When will my donation be deducted?

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Your first donation will be deducted the day you sign up to be a Global Parent. Subsequent donations will be deducted on the 15th of every month, or the nearest business day.

Why is it better to become a Global Parent than to give a single donation?

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We count on your monthly donation to be able to plan ahead and continue to provide support to children in need all around the world. When you pledge to donate monthly, you enable us to:

More effectively plan our upcoming work, knowing that we have the funds ready to invest in long-term solutions and make a lasting impact for children
Have extra supplies ready in areas where emergencies are likely to occur because of climate conditions or political instability
Respond to children’s needs wherever it is most urgently required at the time

How much of my donation is spent on UNICEF’s program work for children?

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UNICEF’s approach is to use low-cost, highly effective solutions that work dramatically to improve children’s lives. For every dollar donated by the Australian public in 2018:

63 cents went directly to program expenditure, including long-term development and emergency response work across both domestic and international programs and community education.
29 cents per dollar from funds raised by the public went to investing in further growing fundraising in Australia to benefit more children across the world. UNICEF Australia reinvests our supporters' generous donations to grow more funds, meaning that more funds are able to be remitted to the field to support our work with children.
8 cents was spent on UNICEF Australia's accountability, administration and reserves. UNICEF Australia is in the lowest percentile of our peer organisations in terms of money spent on administrative costs.

For more information on where donations go, and where they come from, please see our latest annual report

How can I stop or update my monthly donation?

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Things change, we understand. If you would like to stop your Global Parent donations, please provide your name, supporter ID (if you know it), to our Sydney-based Supporter Relations team by email at support@unicef.org.au. Or give us a call on 1300134071.

If you'd like to take a break from donating, reduce the amount you give each month or change your personal dedtails, you can! Just let our friendly team know.

What will I get for becoming a Global Parent?

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Being part of a passionate community of champions for children building a brighter future
Invitations to exclusive events and webinars to meet with UNICEF field-workers, or beneficiaries
Regular updates to see the impact your donations are having on the lives of children
An annual statement to assist in tax preparation

Together we can

Deliver Futures to Every Child

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All donations of $2 or more are tax deductible. ABN 35 060 581 437. Calculate your potential tax benefit here.

If you'd prefer to make your donation over the phone, please call our Supporter Relations team on 1300 884 233.

This is how we use your donation

67 cents went directly to program expenditure, including long-term development and emergency response work.

8 cents were spent on UNICEF Australia's accountability, administration and reserves.

25 cents per dollar from funds raised by the public went to investing in further growing fundraising in Australia.

The value of non-monetary donations and gifts as well as fundraising costs that are funded by UNICEF Geneva and not the public are excluded from this bar chart. The values above are from UNICEF’s 2019 Annual Report.