Lebanon emergency appeal

Lebanon’s children are living in constant fear

For children in Lebanon, nowhere is safe as attacks across the country increase. Heavy bombings have turned homes, schools and neighbourhoods into places of fear.

Since the escalation of attacks across the Middle East, violence in Lebanon has surged – and children are paying the highest price.

At least 31 people have been killed, with numbers quickly rising. Over 9,000 children have been forced from their homes, exposing them to exploitation and harm. Nearly half the population — millions of people — do not have reliable access to safe, clean water. Disease is spreading. Healthcare facilities are overwhelmed. Food is running out.

Last year alone, more than 1,300 children were treated for acute malnutrition. Thousands more are weak, hungry and at risk. Without urgent support, many will not get the care they desperately need.

Lebanon’s hospitals are overstretched. Essential medicines are scarce. Parents are being forced to make impossible choices between food and medicine, between safety and shelter.

And now there is a growing risk of full-scale war, a catastrophe that would devastate the country’s 1.4 million children who are still recovering from years of conflict, a cholera outbreak, and a crushing economic collapse.

Children urgently need your help. Your donation today could help provide emergency food, safe water, and medical supplies. Please give now. Help Lebanon’s children survive.

How your donations help

Please help children before it’s too late. A gift from you right now can help save a child’s life. Donate what you can today.

• €50 could provide 5 children caught up in crisis situations with life-saving emergency food.
• €100 could provide 2 water and hygiene kits containing soap, gloves, masks, buckets and water purification tablets.
• €150 could supply a health centre with enough medicine to treat 24 children.

Please help children struggling to survive by donating now to UNICEF Ireland.