For a child living in a shattered world, every day is a fight to survive.
They wait in terrible pain for life-saving medicine. They drink water filled with deadly diseases. They go to sleep starving, and worry they will not wake up.
For the 473 million children living in the middle of this chaos, the world is a terrifying place where tomorrow is never guaranteed. Hunger and fear return every day. What they need isn’t a single moment of help, it’s a lifeline they can count on consistently.
Here in Ireland, your monthly gift can be that lifeline. It can carry from every county in Ireland to every country where children need help.
Become a UNICEF monthly donor today and be the support children can rely on.
Ivana needs ongoing care.
Children with painful, life-threatening injuries need you now
Ivana was just two years old when an airstrike hit as she played on her balcony.
“I was burning, the house was burning, and I was throwing my children out the window,” her mum Fatima said.
Ivana is just one of many children caught in the horror of war in Lebanon.
Right now, hundreds more like her are injured, frightened, and fighting to survive.
Thousands are homeless. Bombs are falling daily. Without urgent support, they won’t survive the deadly, mounting threats.
Your monthly donation can fund UNICEF programmes in Lebanon and other crisis-hit countries around the world that reach these children before it’s too late. It can help provide urgent treatment for children and sustained care that ensures they survive the deadly threats they face.
Your monthly donation will reach children like Ivana when they need it most, and stay with them for as long as they need you.
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UNICEF ambassador Joe Canning explains the child survival crisis
24/7 worldwide support for children – powered by you
UNICEF goes wherever children need us – no matter how hard it is to get there. Our teams work 24/7 across more than 190 countries. From our global supply hub in Copenhagen – the world’s largest humanitarian warehouse – we can deploy emergency supplies within hours of a crisis.
But right now, the need is outpacing our reach. More children are in danger than we have the resources to help. Every hour without increased support is an hour a child goes without care.
Please donate today before it’s too late. With your monthly donation behind us, every year we can deliver:
- €1.2 billion worth of life-saving supplies
- 3.2 billion vaccine doses
- 76,000 tonnes of therapeutic food
- 5 million health, education, water and hygiene kits
This work, powered in part by people across Ireland, ensures UNICEF is ready before a crisis hits, before headlines begin, so help can arrive in under 72 hours.
Join this monthly community now and your ongoing donation could be the reason a child survives the next crisis.
donate nowMillions of children need urgent help now
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€ 0Your €75 can buy 9,400 water purification tablets to provide children with safe clean water.
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€ 0Your €100 can buy enough life-saving peanut paste to help ten severely malnourished children for one week.
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€ 0Your €150 could help provide enough essential medicine to treat 18 sick and injured children, saving their lives.
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Your donation today can provide food, water and medicine before it's too late. Send your help from Ireland now.
How urgent support from Ireland can save desperate children
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Dana, 4, Syria
4-year-old Dana has been through a lot in her short life. Her sister was killed during war in Syria, her dad injured, and her brother lost the ability to speak. Not long afterwards, she was diagnosed with malnutrition. But Dana received treatment at a UNICEF-supported clinic. And her mum and her brother received support too, thanks to funding from donors in Ireland.
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Falia, 2, Madagascar
Falia was desperately hungry and at risk from a lifetime of issues due to malnutrition. But support sent from Ireland helped fund a programme that reached her before it was too late. Now she has life-saving therapeutic food to help her recover.
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Anya, 5, Ukraine
Anya, not her real name, has been displaced multiple times by the terrifying war in Ukraine. But she is threatened by more than just bombs – Ukraine's freezing winters can be deadly too. But thanks to cash assistance sent from Irish donors, families like hers can afford warm clothes and fuel to ensure they survive.
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Zarghune, 6, Afghanistan
After a devastating earthquake cut off families in Afghanistan from safe water, support sent from Ireland enabled UNICEF to build sustainable, solar-powered systems to provide clean and safe water. Now children like Zarghune no longer have to worry about deadly waterborne diseases.
Other ways to donate
You can make a donation by phone by calling 01 2119588, from Monday to Friday between 9:00 – 3:00pm.
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.