Build a brighter future by supporting children in urgent need 

Aer Lingus has been a proud partner of UNICEF Ireland since 1997. 

Thanks to funds raised by their customers, UNICEF has been able to provide children around the world with life-saving nutrition and clean water, while championing education and protecting them from harm. 

By supporting Aer Lingus appeals for UNICEF, you can help us build a brighter future for every child – before, during and after emergencies strike. 

Support UNICEF today – because vulnerable children need your help. 

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Millions of children need you today

Right now, millions of children are in crisis, facing hunger, war, disease, and climate disasters.

UNICEF is on the ground, delivering lifesaving aid where it’s needed most.

We’ve provided 6.2 million malaria vaccines, fought malnutrition by treating 210 million children in just one year, and ensured access to clean water, healthcare, and education to millions more. But the need is growing fast.

Without urgent support, countless children will suffer. Their future hangs in the balance – your donation can save lives today.

Children and young people are our best hope for creating a better and more peaceful world. With your support, we can help them build it.

Aer Lingus appeals have supported children in countries like Mozambique, where UNICEF provides nutritious food to malnourished babies like 9-months-old Aive.
Walaa, 4, is supported by Amal, a mental health specialist during a counselling session at a UNICEF-supported clinic in Sudan.

Your support can save lives 

Aer Lingus appeals for UNICEF have helped save the lives of children around the world.

In countries like Ukraine, Somalia, Yemen, and Ethiopia, support from Aer Lingus customers is making the world a better place for children.

Walaa is one of the children UNICEF has been able to help thanks to support from people like you.

At just four years old, she had been displaced three times in war-torn Sudan – witnessing intense bombardments and even spending weeks hiding in a forest. 

Trauma left her withdrawn, fearful, and silent. But at a UNICEF child-friendly space she is slowly recovering. Small but vital progress – drawing, speaking, and expressing emotion – marks her path to healing. With psychosocial support, children like Walaa can reclaim their childhood. 

Rebuilding healthcare during war

In Ukraine, funds raised through Aer Lingus appeals are making a lasting difference: helping to provide safe water, phycological support for traumatised children, warm clothes, education and other essentials. 

It is even helping restore medical centres and hospitals and support doctors who are treating injured children. 

Since the war began, support from people like you has allowed UNICEF to help children like 14-year-old Halyna and her bother Andriy, 5, who fled their hometown.

Desperate to continue her education, Halyna would walk three kilometres to a field where there was mobile coverage to download homework. She said: “It was snowing and I wanted to send my homework. I’d stand there for as long as I could, but when my fingers got too cold, I’d go back home. Almost every day was like that.”

Thanks to UNICEF supporters, her family was able to buy fuel for a boiler to heat their home as well as other essentials.

With your support, UNICEF can help even more families and children in urgent need.

Andriy, 5, and Halyna, 14, with their mother Katya.

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Supporting children in Ecuador

Aer Lingus and UNICEF staff at the Quito Wawa Municipal Centre for Early Childhood Development.

In 2025, Aer Lingus staff saw first-hand how UNICEF supporters are helping children in Ecuador by strengthening healthcare services, promoting breastfeeding, providing phycological support, and training professionals.

Staff visited the Quito Wawa Centre in the capital city, and saw how UNICEF provides early childhood care, enabling parents to work. Beyond healthcare, UNICEF is also transforming childhood mental health in violence-prone areas like Esmeraldas, reaching over 5,200 young people.

They witnessed how UNICEF is equipping 1,500 caregivers and teachers with positive parenting skills, ensuring long-term emotional well-being.

And in Alausí, they learned how children traumatized by a devastating landslide in 2023 are receiving psychosocial support. Some children lost friends in the disaster, but thanks to UNICEF they are now enrolled in vital mental health programmes, helping them understand and express their emotions.

How you can make a difference right now

Millions of children across the world need your help. Your support today will make a huge difference. 

  • With €6, you can give a year’s supply of clean drinking water to 7 children.
  • With €12 you can can provide enough vaccines to give 6 children life-long protection from polio and measles.
  • With €18 you can buy emergency food and high protein therapeutic biscuits to help 9 malnourished children.
Support from people like you is helping UNICEF provide safe water to millions of people every year.
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