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Every day a child is fighting to survive

While you read this, children are suffering from burns, hunger and desperate thirst. Your donation now from Ireland can be the lifeline that keeps them alive.

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. With every passing minute, the risk of permanent damage to their fragile bodies and even death becomes greater.

But you can be their lifeline now before it’s too late.

Your support carries from every county in Ireland to every country where desperate children need immediate help.

Donate now and you can help a child survive. Every minute matters.

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You can help a child like Ivana.

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 one of thousands of 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.

Hundreds of children are close to death. But your donation today can help save them. It can send the antibiotics, medical supplies and other care they desperately need.

Your donation reaches children like Ivana before it’s too late, delivering the emergency treatment and life-saving aid that could mean the difference between life and death.

Every minute without support is a minute a child doesn’t have. They need you now.

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UNICEF ambassador Joe Canning explains the child survival crisis

UNICEF provides 24/7, worldwide help to children – but your support is essential

Children are dying now in places the world has forgotten. But UNICEF is there on the ground. With your support, we will not abandon suffering children. We can reach them and help them survive – but we need your help today.

With support from you, our teams can work around the clock 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.

But with more children in danger than we have the resources to reach, every hour without support is an hour a child goes without care.

Thanks to support from people like you, each year we deliver:

  • €1.2 billion worth of life-saving supplies
  • 3.2 billion vaccine doses
  • 76,000 tonnes of therapeutic food
  • 5 million health, water and hygiene kits

This work – powered in part by people across Ireland – means UNICEF can reach suffering children quickly and  efficiently. Your donation today can be the reason a child survives.

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Millions of children need urgent help now

With your support, UNICEF teams can operate around the clock to help save children.
  • € 0

    Your €75 can buy 9,400 water purification tablets to provide children with safe clean water.

  • € 0

    Your €100 can buy enough life-saving peanut paste to help ten severely malnourished children for one week.

  • € 0

    Your €150 could help provide enough essential medicine to treat 18 sick and injured children, saving their lives.

Help a child survive

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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