The ongoing conflict in Yemen has had a devastating impact on children’s lives, with one in three children at risk from malnutrition. Thanks to our kind supporters, children like Doa’a are receiving the treatment they urgently need to survive. When Doa’a arrived to our therapeutic feeding centre, she was severely malnourished and suffering from pneumonia. … Continued

Mozambique has been hit by two devastating cyclones within six weeks of each other. Cyclones Idai and Kenneth caused widespread destruction and a devasting loss of life, leaving communities devastated. Heavy rains caused the banks of the Buzi river to break creating an ‘inland ocean.’ Floods tore through communities, destroying everything in their path. Thousands … Continued

Climate change is pushing families in many of Bangladesh’s poorest communities over the edge, leaving them unable to keep their children properly housed, fed, healthy and educated. Read on to learn why Bangladesh is so vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Why is Bangladesh so Vulnerable to Climate Change? Bangladesh boasts an extremely flat … Continued

900,000 children have been affected by Cyclone Idai, which has caused severe flooding in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Aid workers are now reaching isolated areas and fear the number of displaced or injured people will rise. In times of crisis or humanitarian disaster, it’s children who always suffer the most. Cyclon Idai has destroyed much … Continued

Right now, 400,000 children in Yemen are dangerously underweight and suffering from severe acute malnutrition. The ongoing war has caused economic instability and nationwide food shortages leaving the most vulnerable at risk. Saba, and thousands of the children like her, need life-saving therapeutic food, such as plumpy nut and fortified milk, to survive.   Read … Continued

As a result of the ongoing conflict in Yemen, war in Europe, climate change and COVID-19, more than 2 million children are suffering from malnutrition in Yemen. The situation is now so bad that nearly all of Yemen’s children – 4 out of 5 – need urgent humanitarian help to survive. With one child dying every … Continued

All girls and women have the right to choose what they want in life. Girls must be empowered with the knowledge, skills and options they need to reach their full potential. Unless girls have equal access to opportunities and resources from birth, through childhood and adolescence and into older age, gender equality will never be … Continued

After 7 years of a relentless conflict in Syria, more than 2.5 million children have been forced to flee and are now living outside Syria in neighbouring countries. UNICEF’s Ettie Higgins is on the ground in Jordan helping Syrian children and explains the challenges they now face as a brutal winter with freezing temperatures fast approaches. … Continued

As a child, Marian Killeen was always aware that there were people less fortunate than her. This keen awareness was instilled and encouraged by her parents. Marian’s mother, who served as a nurse after World War ll, always reminded her daughter about the many people in need across the world. Her father, a special branch … Continued

What is World Children’s Day? World Children’s Day takes place every year on the 20th of November.  It’s all about supporting children’s rights and helping children everywhere claim them. The day was initially established by the UN General Assembly in 1989- when the Deceleration of the Rights of the Child was signed.  Today, World Children’s … Continued

  There has been a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Palu, on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Over 1.5 million people have been affected. Since its creation, responding to emergency crises like this has been the core of UNICEF’s mission. Working in more than 190 countries and territories means that we are often on … Continued

As Typhoon Mangkhut races towards the Philippines, 5 million people, nearly half of them children, are in the path of the massive storm. Mangkhut is expected to be as strong as Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the Philippines in 2013.  The eye of the storm is set to reach the northern part of the Philippines this … Continued