Six-month-old Shaam has had a narrow escape. Her mother Saja was badly injured when she was pregnant with Shaam.

She had to be pulled from rubble following a bomb blast.

With only a tent for a home and no food, Saja struggled to feed her baby, which led to Shaam becoming malnourished.

But thanks to incredible generosity like yours, she’s now getting the emergency treatment she needs.

Almost everyone in Gaza is facing severe hunger, including almost half a million people in catastrophic conditions. A high risk of famine persists across the whole of Gaza.

But thanks to support from people like you, UNICEF is making an impact. We have provided at least 55,000 children with high-energy biscuits, supplement and micronutrients. 

Over 8,000 children with acute malnutrition have also been admitted for therapeutic treatment. 

Not even bullets have stopped our teams getting aid into Gaza.

In April UNICEF Spokesperson Tess Ingram was accompanying an aid convoy headed to the north of Gaza when it came under attack.

Tess and her colleagues narrowly escaped with their lives, and were devastated that they could not get their precious cargo to the children they knew were dying of malnutrition.

It made their decision to resume their mission a few days later even more remarkable.

With the dangers still very real, they put on their bullet proof vests and protective helmets and took to the road once more.

After hours of delays and setbacks, they finally made it through to the children.

“Thank goodness we were in an armoured vehicle,” Tess said.

With your support, UNICEF can continue to work tirelessly in Gaza to get aid to vulnerable children despite the deadly violence. 

Nine-year-old Raghad is daring to dream again thanks to compassionate help like yours. She longs to be a doctor when she grows up, but for now, she’s a patient at a field hospital in southern Gaza.

“I love school because they teach me how to read and write,” she said.

With support from people like you, children like Raghad can get the mental health support they need to realise their dreams. 

The conflict in Gaza has been catastrophic for children. 

The violence is having a profound impact on them psychologically.

Children are being exposed to horrors that no child should have to witness, and they are experiencing anxiety, fear and nightmares.

But with support like yours, UNICEF has been able to provide vital psychosocial support to 95,000 traumatised children.

Simply helping children to play is also important, and UNICEF is encouraging them to take time to be a child, and to experience some joy and feelings of connectedness.

This also brings relief to parents, who ache to see their children safe and happy.

Donations have helped children like Genan, 7 months, and her Aunty Rehab. Thanks to immense kindness like yours, Genan – whose mother tragically died half an hour after giving birth to her – is getting the life-saving help she needs to recover from malnutrition.

At a UNICEF-supported hospital Genan was admitted and enrolled on a nutrition programme for care and treatment.

After two months of treatment, Genan’s health improved.

A big thank you to donors like you for helping our vital work in Sudan.

Famine in Sudan is getting worse and adding to the mounting problems facing children in the conflict-hit country. But, thanks to support from our donors, UNICEF is on the ground and making a difference.

UNICEF is providing life-saving assistance including water, health, nutrition, safe spaces and learning.

The war in Ukraine continues to rage on, and children there continue to suffer greatly.

In July, Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kviv was hit in a missile attack. UNICEF joined forces with rescue services, hospital staff and many volunteers to help children and their families.

Donations from people like you provided medical equipment, first aid kits, hygiene supplies and drinking water.

UNICEF was in Ukraine long before the war escalated, and we are still there making sure children receive life-saving services, education and psychological support funded by people like you.

UNICEF’s response is focused on ensuring children have access to health care, immunisation, nutrition support, protection, education, safe water and sanitation, social protection, and mental health and psychosocial support.