How your Legacy gift makes a difference

Education

An educated child has a better chance of growing up healthy and free from poverty. What’s more, an educated child can support and help lift an entire community in need.

Education can rebuild communities destroyed by war. It can help end child marriage and it can give generations of children the brighter future they deserve.

UNICEF works to restore schools and education during and after conflict, providing the stability, structure and routine that children need to cope with the loss, fear, stress and violence.

Vaccinations

Immunization is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions to date, saving an estimated 2 to 3 million lives each year.

As a direct result of routine vaccination, we are closer than ever to eradicating deadly viruses like polio. Deaths from measles – a highly contagious disease – have declined by 73 per cent worldwide between 2000 and 2018, saving an estimated 23.2 million children’s lives.

The emergence of COVID-19, however, threatens to reverse this progress. By leaving a gift in your will to UNICEF, you can continue to ensure children receive life-saving vaccines.

Life-Saving Food

Every 12 seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies of causes related to malnutrition. Children who are well nourished are better able to grow and learn. They are able to participate in and contribute to their communities as well as better able to be resilient in the face of disease, disasters, and other global crises.

UNICEF supplies approximately 80% of the world’s supply of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), a peanut based therapeutic food used to treat children aged under 5 suffering from severe acute malnutrition.