Time is running out for children like Fares.
Help send children life-saving protection
Imagine a child sleeping in wet clothes on a cold night, with nothing between them and disease-carrying flood water but a flimsy tent.
This is the terrifying reality for children in Gaza. It is so deadly, at least 28 children have died from hypothermia over the last two winters.
For those who survived, this winter’s cold, wet nights could be their last.
Little Fares is one of those struggling to make it through. Her mum Maysaa has no warm clothes to keep her dry. When the rain comes, it soaks the mattresses in their makeshift tent.
“Every time we tried to remove the water, it came back,” Maysaa told us. “How will we survive the days ahead?”
Her family is one of many. 800,000 children have been forced from their homes. They are sheltering in crowded tents and dangerous, bombed-out buildings.
For a child already weak from hunger, hours in freezing, wet clothes can be deadly. Hypothermia and pneumonia set in fast. Hospitals in Gaza are barely functioning, and medicine is scarce. Without help, many will die.
But you can help save them now.
UNICEF teams are in Gaza helping children now. Your gift today can send them thermal blankets, warm clothes and medicine before it’s too late. Please, there isn’t a minute to lose.
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You can help make this happen – a warm coat for a cold child.
Children can’t survive this winter alone
Last winter, thanks to donations from supporters in Ireland and around the world, UNICEF teams in Gaza:
- Distributed close to 1 million thermal blankets
- Gave winter clothing to around 330,000 children
- Delivered hundreds of thousands of tarpaulins and tents.
Since then, Palestinian children have faced a year of bombs, bullets, collapsed buildings, and brutal conditions.
The fight to survive is now even harder. We urgently need to reach more children now.
Your life-saving donation today can provide:
- Thermal blankets to give a child protection through long, freezing nights
- A full set of winter clothes, including a coat, hat and boots, to keep a child warm and dry
- Antibiotics and medicines to treat deadly winter illnesses like pneumonia
We can reach these children – but only with people like you.
When you give today, you’ll know the next time you come in from the rain, peel off your wet coat and put the heating on, that a child in Gaza is warmer and safer because you chose to act, and chose to act fast.
DONATE NOWChildren in Gaza are fighting for their lives
Protecting children through the cold nights
Protecting children through the cold nights
Many families live under makeshift tents, or inside heavily damaged buildings with little heating or protection. But you can help send them thermal blankets now.
A gift from you today could provide families with thermal blankets – giving a child protection through the long, cold nights.
Keeping children safe from the elements
Keeping children safe from the elements
Children in Gaza have witnessed destruction and death on an unimaginable scale. And in the winter, the suffering intensifies. Help send them warm clothes today.
A gift from you today can provide children with a full set of winter clothes – including a coat and boots, helping keep them warm and dry.
Providing life-saving medical care
Providing life-saving medical care
Nowhere warm and dry to sleep. Not enough food or clean water. Danger everywhere, from dirty water and unstable buildings to rats. You can help provide medicine now.
A gift from you today can help provide antibiotics and medicines to save children from deadly conditions like pneumonia.
So much more than a tent
Your support today can help install UNICEF’s high-performance tents in Gaza. They can withstand winds of 80 km/h and are fully waterproof.
They have solid floors and straight sides, offering plenty of space for critical services like clinics. They can be connected to electricity sources or powered by solar – providing heat and light even in the coldest, darkest months.
How you can make a difference in Gaza right now
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€ 0can help provide winter clothing for 15 babies, protecting them from life-threatening winter conditions.
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€ 0can help provide thermal blankets for 20 children, to help them survive dangerously cold winter nights.
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€ 0can help provide vital medicines to treat 63 children at risk of death from serious illnesses like pneumonia.
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.