Your support makes a lasting change

Every year, UNICEF helps millions of children in desperate need around the world thanks to our incredible supporters. 

Whether protecting children from starvation in Gaza, or providing life-saving water to families in Sudan, our supporters save lives.

In countless other emergencies around the globe too, those that do not make the news, compassion like yours helps to send life-saving aid like food, medicine and warm clothes.

In 2024, kindness like yours helped screen 12.2 million children for malnutrition.

Their gifts allowed 26.4 million children and women to receive primary health care.

And their compassion brought safe water to 17.4 million people.

But millions of children around the world are still at risk from severe hunger, disease and conflict. 

Your ongoing support can help us reach these children too, before it is too late. You are, and can continue to be, a lifeline for children.

 

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Your support has made a huge difference to children living in humanitarian disasters. But countless other urgent emergencies around the globe remain in the shadows, with children in desperate need that cannot be ignored.
UNICEF Ireland ambassador Donncha O’Callaghan has seen some of these first-hand. So he knows the vital importance of donations that go to where the need is greatest. “Unrestricted gifts enable UNICEF teams in over 190 countries to reach the world’s hidden crises,” he said.
These gifts from our supporters have reached children like Omer in Sudan, Ritaj in Gaza, and Fauzia in Afghanistan, all pictured above with Donncha – as well as many other families in crisis.

“Thank you for being there for the terrifying times and the happy ones too,” Donncha said. “And if you’d like to start off the new year with another gift to help children, anything you can spare today will make a huge difference to children in desperate need around the world.“

You can help mothers save their babies

Children in Gaza are returning home to devastation—crumbling buildings, scarce food, and deadly disease from dirty water. Babies and young children are most at risk.

Eman gave birth to triplets during the war. Despite the immense challenges, she was able to keep them healthy thanks to therapeutic milk—provided by generous gifts like yours. But they’re still in danger, with little food or clean water.

In Sudan too mothers are fighting to keep their children from starving to death. While in Syria, 7.5 million children need urgent aid after years of conflict.

Compassion like yours is providing these children with food, blankets, and safe water. But the need is overwhelming. Children are suffering right now.

Supporters like you are already making a huge difference. With continued help, we can reach children in desperate need before it’s too late.

Eman, pictured with her children, received ready to use formula at a UNICEF-supported pediatrician clinic in Gaza thanks to our compassionate supporters. 

Help send urgent aid to children living through crisis.

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Help children in danger

Dedicated supporters like you have made an incredible difference to children’s lives every single day.

It is only with ongoing help from people like you that UNICEF can providing life-saving water to families in drought-hit countries like Somalia, or blankets to freezing children in Lebanon.

But unfortunately children across the world continue to suffer. In some cases, they are battling just to stay alive.

In Ukraine, generous supporters like you provided Daria and her daughters Polina, 12, and Milana, 7, with cash transfers – a payment that can be used to purchase essentials like coal to heat the house, or a water tank.

But the war in Ukraine continues to rage on. Thousands of children still live in fear under the constant threat of bombs, being forced to endlessly flee conflict as they try and find warm shelter.

A gift to UNICEF ensures that these children and their families, and others around the world, receive the support they desperately need.

Please considering making another generous gift to children today.

Daria sits with her daughters Polina, 12, and Milana, 7. The family is being supported by UNICEF’s winterization programme to help vulnerable people get through Ukraine’s freezing temperatures.

 

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How your support can help children today

The longer children are left without clean water, nutritious food and warm blankets, the more lives will be lost. Across the world, children living amid humanitarian emergencies cannot wait any longer.

  • €50 can provide 10 displaced children thermal blankets this cold winter.
  • €75 can supply clean water to protect 12 children from preventable waterborne diseases.
  • €150 can prove lifesaving therapeutic food to treat 15 children for severe malnutrition.

When you give, you do something incredible. You don’t just save children’s lives—you help make them safer, happier, and filled with hope.

Please donate today and help us protect children in emergencies.

Mohammad, 9, using a newly installed water tap in Afghanistan, provided thanks to our compassionate supporters.

The miracle of a monthly gift

Every donation makes a huge difference to children’s lives. We are so grateful to all of our supporters. But monthly donors can help create lasting change.

Regular donations allow us to plan for emergencies and be there before, during and after an emergency strikes.

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You can also make a donation by phoning us on 01 878 3000. Our office hours are Monday to Friday 09:00 – 17:30.

Or you can send your donation by post to

Freepost; UNICEF Ireland, 33 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin D01 R283.

In the unlikely event that the funds raised exceed UNICEF’s funding requirements for this appeal, your donation will be directed to where the need is greatest.

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