UNICEF is providing children in Gaza with food and warm clothes
UNICEF is helping children in Gaza now
Thousands of children in Gaza are fighting for their lives this winter from heavy rainfall, strong winds and plummeting temperatures.
At least six children have died in Gaza due to these horrendous winter conditions, their flimsy tent homes and weak, malnourished bodies unable to cope with the deadly risks.
And without immediate help, the crisis will get even worse. Last year, several babies died from hypothermia, their mums waking in the night to find their children blue and no longer breathing. Countless young lives are in danger right now.
But there is hope.
UNICEF staff are on the ground in Gaza today, delivering urgent humanitarian aid. Thanks to charity supporters in Ireland, we are providing warm clothes, blankets, life-saving food, clean water, and medical care to Palestinian children who desperately need it.
But we cannot continue this work without you.
Every minute matters. Every donation this winter helps protect a child in Gaza from hunger, disease, and cold.
Please help UNICEF deliver life-saving aid to the children of Gaza today.
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A rapid scale-up of aid in Gaza
UNICEF is so effective in Gaza because we are more than a charity organization – we are a UN agency with staff on the ground every day reaching children with the best care available. But most importantly, we have thousands of supporters in Ireland backing our work. Will you join them?
An ongoing crisis that needs your help
Despite the ceasefire, over 100 children have been killed in Gaza in recent months.
Living in cold, flimsy tents, they are exposed to deadly risks from severe weather, continued bombing and hunger. Even with UNICEF delivering more aid, October recorded one of the highest malnutrition rates ever documented in Gaza.
Families remain trapped in a deadly cycle of conflict and extreme scarcity. Violence has not stopped – and now winter has worsened the daily, deadly risks. Lacking adequate shelter, and with food, medicine, and safe water running low, thousands are now at immediate risk.
But thanks to urgent charitable donations to UNICEF, we we were able to supply almost one million thermal blankets and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of winter clothing kits for children over the last few months.
UNICEF has also made urgent and lifesaving repairs to water pipelines and, in just one month, enrolled over 1,600 severely malnourished children in emergency nutrition programmes that are keeping them alive right now.
But the crisis continues to threaten children in Gaza.
Your support today can mean the difference between life and death. With your help, we can reach more children this winter before it’s too late, delivering the warm clothes and protection they urgently need to survive this darkest period and build a safer, brighter future in the State of Palestine.
Please act now. Gaza’s children cannot wait.
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Malak and her daughter Rowan need your help now
UNICEF staff are working on the ground in Gaza now
10-year-old Rowan and her sister Toulin, 5, live in the rubble of a destroyed mosque, terrified each day that it will collapse on top of them. But they have no choice: they have nowhere else to go.
They sleep on wet, cold mattresses. Rowan has a hearing disability. Toulin, suffers from retinal damage.
Like thousands of other children in Gaza, they are cold, hungry, traumatized by years of war, and in desperate need of aid.
UNICEF has been helping children across the State of Palestine for decades, and our staff on the ground will not give up on them now.
When you donate to our appeal this winter, you help send food to starving children. You can be the difference between life and death.
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Help save children today
After years of war in Gaza, children are now at risk from a deadly winter.
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.