How Will My Donation Help?

By making a donation today you will be helping children affected by the Ebola crisis and ensuring UNICEF’s work on the ground can continue.

UNICEF’s Ebola response is focused on five key areas;

1. Educating communities about the dangers of Ebola to inform children and their families about this deadly disease; how it spreads, the early symptoms and when and where to seek treatment, giving them the best possible chance to protect themselves and survive.
2. Providing clean water and Hygiene & Sanitation stations in schools, communities and health centres. This is absolutely critical in preventing the spread of the disease.
3. Offering mental health support to children affected by Ebola, helping them come to terms with any trauma the outbreak may have caused.
4. Providing nutritional care for people infected with Ebola and for children whose parents are in quarantine.
5. Caring for children who have been orphaned by Ebola and children whose parents are in quarantine.

How is UNICEF helping children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)?

Despite huge progress, too many children in the DRC die before they reach their fifth birthday. Most of these deaths are entirely preventable or caused by treatable diseases such as neonatal complications, pneumonia, malaria,  diarrhoea and malnutrition.

With simple and effective solutions we can save children’s lives.

In the DRC, nearly one out of every two children under five are chronically malnourished, which affects their brain development, reduces their IQ, and weakens their immune system.

UNICEF is working to prevent this, by providing nutrition services and therapeutic food to the most vulnerable children.