Children like Ali need help now
Your support today can save lives in Gaza
Two-year-old Ali is so malnourished he weighs just three kilograms.
“I feel like I am watching my baby die in front of me,” his mum Eitemad said. “He is always tired, and sometimes he gets very sick at night. I walk for two hours to get him treatment.”
UNICEF is supporting Ali and Eitemad now, but there are thousands of more children like him in Gaza struggling to survive. 31,000 children are so severely acutely malnourished they are at risk of death without immediate support.
Your donation today can help our teams on the ground in Gaza deliver life-saving food to these children. Please act now – there isn’t a moment to lose.
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Maryam needs ongoing help.
UNICEF is rushing life-saving food to children today – you can help provide it
Maryam is just eight. You can see every bone in her frail body. Her hair is falling out. She asks her mum through tears, “What’s wrong with me?” Outside the hospital there is no food. Each time she goes home, she soon returns weaker.
Ola, once a top student proudly showing her science project, now faints from hunger. She says her head is “too heavy to carry.”
This is what hunger looks like in Gaza: children too weak to stand and close to death, mothers helpless to feed them.
UNICEF is in Gaza every day, delivering life-saving food that can save children like Maryam and Ola. But without help from people like you, more children will die today.
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Enan gives life-saving food, provided by people like you, to her 9 months old child Abdul
A miracle lifesaver
Right now, UNICEF is delivering Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) to children in Gaza. This small, peanut-based sachet is a proven lifesaver. Inside are 500 calories of vital nutrients: exactly what a starving child’s body needs to recover.
With your support, parents can feed their children at home, sparing them dangerous, exhausting trips to hospital. Week by week, frail children gain strength, sometimes a whole kilo in just one week.
But the crisis is worsening. Every day, more children slip into severe malnutrition. We urgently need more RUTF to reach them before it’s too late.
Please give now – help UNICEF deliver this life-saving food to children and stop another mum from having to say a final goodbye to her child.
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A miracle food that saves lives
When all a mother has to feed her baby is water, starch and sugar, starvation is almost inevitable. But Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food can change everything.
These small sachets of peanut paste are packed with life-saving nutrients: all the vitamins and minerals a starving child needs to recover. No water, cooking or refrigeration is needed, and parents can feed it to their children themselves.
UNICEF helps deliver 80% of the world’s RUTF. But millions more children still need it. You can help send this miracle food today.
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Help send life-saving food to children in Gaza today.
Other Ways to Donate
You can make a donation by phone by calling 01 878 3000, from Monday to Friday between 9:00 – 5:30pm.
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.