Join us in saving children's lives

Millions of children face malnutrition and urgent need for proper nutrition and care. Your monthly support can provide life-saving aid and help transform their futures.

A mother's struggle for survival 

“To find food, you have to walk around looking for vegetables, otherwise you won't eat.” 

When fighting reached her village in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mamy gathered her four children and fled south, desperately seeking safety. Arriving at a displaced persons site near Goma, she had to struggle to find food, walking around looking for vegetables. A UNICEF-supported community engagement team found her children severely malnourished and provided them with nutritious food and soap to limit exposure to cholera. 

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The crisis: hunger and malnutrition in vulnerable regions across Africa

Imagine this struggle multiplied across millions of children in regions like Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. These children face relentless hunger, displacement, and the threat of disease every day. In these areas, severe acute malnutrition is rampant, leading to higher risks of death and stunting in children. The recent heavy rains in some regions have only added to their woes, causing flash floods that further displace families and destroy essential resources like crops and livestock. 

Children fighting malnutrition are enduring unimaginable hardships. They are starving, their bodies weakened by the lack of food, and their futures are at risk. They need urgent help to survive and thrive. 

 

How your monthly donations make a difference

Your monthly donations are a lifeline for children on the brink of starvation. By giving regularly, you enable UNICEF to provide ongoing, critical support: 

malnutrition screening

Timely screening and treating malnourished children even in the remotest communities.

RUTF

Supplying life-saving therapeutic food and other essential nutrition supplies.

Ensuring children receive urgent medical care

Ensuring children receive urgent medical care to mothers and their children.

Strengthening health systems

Strengthening health systems to manage malnutrition and infectious diseases for more children in need.

Watch how your donation will make a difference

Children’s lives hang in the balance. Donate now a gift of any amount to provide life-saving supplies and support to children in need.

Disclaimer: 
 
*Donations received will be used to fund UNICEF’s response for children and families in the Horn of Africa with 10% of total donations going towards responding to the urgent needs of many more children and families facing the most challenging situations elsewhere in the world. Your donation today will help us be there for every child, even those living with very little to no support.
 
**Please note that the stories of children mentioned are to illustrate activities and the change that your donation can make to the lives of vulnerable children. UNICEF, based on the need on the ground, will allocate resources to areas that need funds the most.
 
***As a United Nations entity enjoying privileges and immunities enshrined in the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, UNICEF does not have a tax registration number in any country because it is not subject to tax on its income in any jurisdiction and because it is not subject to the jurisdiction of any national authority, including any tax authority.