Right now in Lebanon scared, injured children are in pain and struggling to survive.
Children are being killed or catastrophically injured every single day. Hospitals are overwhelmed, medicines are running dangerously low, and the next mass attack could exhaust what little remains.
Hundreds of children, some just toddlers, have suffered life-threatening burns and shrapnel wounds during the war. They may not survive without urgent medical care. The situation is desperate and it is getting worse.
But your donation right now could help send the critical medicines and supplies badly injured children need.
Lives are on the line. Every minute counts. Please don’t delay. A child needs your help urgently.
Ivana was close to death after she was severely injured.
Every minute counts – a child needs your help right now
Two-year-old Ivana was playing with her sister on their balcony when a missile tore into the neighbouring building. Within seconds, their home was ablaze.
Her mum Fatima had to throw her girls from the window to save them from the fire. Both children arrived at hospital close to death, with severe burns to their faces, hands and arms.
Ivana had to have a painful skin graft. She and her sister survived, but only because supplies were there when they needed them. Right now, they might not be.
On just one day in April, 153 children were injured in just a few minutes of bombing. At least six hospitals have now been forced to close. 15 more are seriously damaged. Stocks of life-saving medicines could run out completely. When the next attack comes, the aftermath could be devastating.
Without help right now, the next child like Ivana may not make it. Please rush your life-saving help to injured children right this minute.
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Five-year-old Ali was pulled from the rubble of his home.
Our teams need your support to reach more children
Since the escalation of conflict, UNICEF teams have delivered more than 140 tons of essential medications and medical supplies to hospitals and healthcare centres across Lebanon, including convoys reaching the most dangerous, hard-to-reach areas.
We’ve helped activate mobile health services that have now reached over 290 shelters, delivering more than 34,000 primary healthcare consultations and getting essential medicines to nearly 18,000 people.
But the need is outpacing everything we can do. Supplies are running critically low. More attacks are coming.
Right now, injured children are in hospital beds waiting for medicines that may not arrive in time. Your donation today goes directly to the frontline – to the teams, the convoys, and the hospital shelves that are the only thing standing between a child and death.
Time is running out to prevent a catastrophic loss of children’s lives. Children need your help right this minute.
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Help children in Lebanon
Your donation today can provide essential medical help to injured children.
Report from the field: critically low levels of medicine
UNICEF teams are on the ground now in Lebanon, reaching children. When our global spokesperson James Elder visited, he found children with:
- Severe burns
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Shrapnel wounds
- Loss of limbs
- Sight and hearing loss
He found stocks of vital medicines are running low. This matters, because in the first moments after an injury, the right medical supplies can mean the difference between life or death. If hospitals run out of critical medical stores, children will die.
Children like Ali, who only barely survived thanks to medical supplies being there at the crucial moment. When James visited, Ali tried so hard to play with his toy – using his one remaining hand. The other had to be amputated after he spent 14 hours alone and injured beneath the rubble of his home. He’s too young to understand that his entire family was killed in the same strike that left him disabled for life.
Without the medical support UNICEF helped deliver, Ali would not have survived. Right now, there are children just like him clinging to life who will only make it if help arrives in time. Your donation today is essential.
Donate nowOther 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.