All donations to this appeal will go to the Child Nutrition Fund and will be matched by a generous donor Euro for Euro.
The situation for children right now is catastrophic. Every day more than 5,900 children die because of malnutrition. There isn’t a moment to lose. Every second counts to reach children on the brink of death.
You can help save the lives of twice as many children now. Please donate this minute and your donation will help save the lives of twice as many severely malnourished children.
Farhan is alive today thanks to UNICEF donors.
Every Euro you donate now to children like Farhan will have twice the impact
Two-year-old Farhan was moments from death from malnutrition. His arms were so thin they could break. His little legs could barely support his fragile body.
But Farhan is alive today because his grandmother Leyla refused to give up, and because UNICEF supporters like you made help possible.
Amid a devastating drought, Leyla sold her last bag of maize to bring Farhan to a UNICEF-supported clinic. He was immediately rushed into emergency care.
“They gave him a blood transfusion,” says Leyla. “But they couldn’t find veins in his hands, so they used the veins in his head.”
Farhan survived deadly hunger because people like you stood with him when he needed it most. But millions of children like him are still fighting malnutrition. For them, time is running out.
But for a short period there is a critical window to reach them. You can send help this minute – and right now, your donation will be doubled. Every donation will have twice the impact. That’s right – you give €100 today, and €200 will help provide emergency food for desperately hungry children.
Please, there isn’t a second to lose. You can maximize you support for children now.
Donate now
Take a €2 coin and hold it in your hand
That small circle is about the width of a severely malnourished child’s arm. It’s almost impossible to imagine, but for millions of children, this is their reality.
Their bodies are shutting down, weakened by hunger and the diseases that come with it. Without urgent help, many will not survive.
You can help change that now. Every Euro you give will be matched. Euro for Euro. Every €100 you give will become €200. Send your support and help bring children back from the brink of death.
Watch the crisis explained by UNICEF ambassador Donncha O'Callaghan
Help end undernutrition for the most vulnerable children
Across the world, 1 in 5 children does not have enough food to survive. With every passing hour, their bodies grow weaker. For some, time is running out. They may have only days left to live.
But there is a simple solution you can help provide – and if you donate now, you can provide twice as much.
In the field, UNICEF health workers use a simple colour-coded measuring tape around a child’s arm. When the indicator falls into the red zone, that child is critically close to death.
The moment a child is diagnosed, treatment begins immediately. Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food – a life-saving, nutrient-rich paste – can pull a child back from the brink of death in just weeks. But every hour without it increases the risk.
UNICEF supplies nearly 80% of the world’s therapeutic food, and our emergency supplies depend entirely on you. Help us provide this life-saving, miracle food to children now – and any gift today will be doubled, maximising your impact and helping save even more children.
Please, make your life-saving donation now – in this moment, you can do twice as much.
Donate nowYour support now gives twice the chance of survival
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€ 0Your €100 will become €200 – helping provide not 10, but 20 severely acutely malnourished children with emergency food.
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€ 0Your €150 will become €300 – helping provide not 15, but 30 severely acutely malnourished children with emergency food.
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€ 0Your €250 will become €500 – helping provide not 55, but 110 severely acutely malnourished children with emergency food.
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.
How your donations are doubled
The UNICEF-led Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) is a bold effort to help millions of children survive deadly hunger and get the nutrition they need for a healthy life.
The CNF – a collaboration between different public and private sector partners, such as Irish Aid – tackles these problems head-on by supporting proven, life-saving solutions. This includes both preventing malnutrition before it starts and treating it when it does.
Every year, the CNF aims to reach 320 million children and women with vital nutrition support – giving them a better chance at a healthy life.
Your support doesn’t just help malnutrition in children – it supports mothers too. When you donate, you help provide maternal nutrition, antenatal care counselling and support micronutrient supplementation, as well as supporting the promotion of breastfeeding.
And if you send your support now, every euro you give is matched. That means your donation doesn’t just help – it goes twice as far in protecting children from the deadly effects of hunger.
Donate now