The Devastating Impact of Floods
Catastrophic floods are among the most devastating natural disasters, often striking without warning and causing widespread destruction.
As waters rise, homes, schools, livestock, and critical infrastructure like water sources are damaged or destroyed, making it difficult for children and families to access safe drinking water.
In these crises, children are the most vulnerable.
Floods disrupt their lives in profound ways: crops and livelihoods are devastated, leaving children without food and prone to malnutrition; stagnant waters breed diseases like cholera and dengue; and damaged schools hinder their education and future prospects.
The recent floods in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo have highlighted the urgent need for immediate and long-term support to help children recover and heal.
Floods like these are becoming more frequent and severe, and we need your support to continue to help children when they need us most. With your support, UNICEF can deliver life-saving relief and stay to provide long-term support to children affected by catastrophic flooding.
“We lost everything. It is all destroyed. We’ve barely been able to save anything from our home,” Hassan says. “I now have nightmares every night and am really scared.”
Hassan’s Story
In northern Afghanistan, 12-year-old Hassan’s home was destroyed when flash flooding ravaged his village. The waters swept away livestock, shut down schools and damaged health centres, leaving a trail of devastation.
UNICEF is helping children like Hassan by providing essential supplies and support including children’s clothes, hygiene supplies, safe drinking water, and health and nutrition support to screen and treat for malnutrition. But we need your support to reach more children affected by such devastating floods.
Protect children from hunger, disease and destruction
When severe flooding puts vulnerable children and families at risk, UNICEF helps to provide immediate relief and stays to help provide long-term support to affected communities.
UNICEF’s supply operation, which includes the largest humanitarian supply warehouse in the world, enables the delivery of life-saving supplies anywhere in the world within 48 to 72 hours.
With support from people like you, UNICEF helps provide:
Life-saving supplies
Essential supplies like hygiene kits are distributed to prevent the outbreak of waterborne diseases, medical supplies are delivered to treat the wounded and therapeutic food is used to help fight malnutrition.
Safe drinking water
UNICEF delivers water treatment kits and helps set up emergency water points and water trucking facilities for families to access clean water.
Temporary shelters
UNICEF delivers temporary shelters and create child-friendly spaces for displaced children to learn, play and receive psychosocial support.
Help communities build back better
Floods not only destroy homes and schools but affect vulnerable children and their families for years to come. The disruption to everyday life makes it challenging for children to feel safe and hopeful about the future.
Which is why, support for long-term recovery is even more crucial. With your monthly support, you can help provide the resources these children and their communities need to rebuild and thrive.
You can help UNICEF provide long-term relief to children by:
Rebuilding infrastructure
UNICEF helps rebuild homes, schools, and health facilities that have been destroyed or damaged by floods.
Improving water and sanitation
Long-term projects are implemented to ensure sustainable access to clean water and proper sanitation facilities.
Cash assistance
Direct financial support is given to families to help them meet their basic and long-term needs.
Make an impact for children
Your generous contribution is crucial in helping UNICEF provide immediate and long-term assistance to children affected by floods.
With your donation, we can ensure that children receive the care, protection and opportunities they need to recover and thrive. Together, we can ensure that no child is left behind after these devastating floods.
Join us and help bring relief and hope to children and families today.
Frequently Asked Questions
UNICEF is the United Nations Children’s Fund, working to protect the rights of every child, everywhere. We work the help the most vulnerable with health care and immunizations, safe water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more.
Thanks to support from donors like you, we have been able to make a difference for children in need, to save, nurture, and protect the most vulnerable. We are active in over 190 countries and territories, working closely with the government, local partners and charities, and have helped save more children's lives than any other humanitarian organization.
UNICEF works to advance and protect child rights and to provide health care, immunizations, nutrition, access to safe water and sanitation services, education, protection and emergency relief. Today UNICEF works in more than 190 countries and territories (that's all the countries in the world except for 5!) to save and improve children's lives.
Thanks to donours like you, we are able to be on the ground providing critical services and delivering supplies to the most vulnerable children. We work alongside with governments, other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and many other partners, to help ensure the biggest impact for children in need and to reach children in the most remote places. And our work is only possible thanks to your generosity and commitment to saving children's lives.
UNICEF does not get any direct funding from the UN budget - which means 100% of our money comes from donations.
Everything we do is funded by people like you, making voluntary contributions to ensure that UNICEF can continue its efforts to save, nurture, and protect children everywhere in the world. For detailed information on our work and funding, you can see our latest Annual Report.
You work hard to support children in need, and UNICEF wants to ensure we get the best out of every contribution. That's why we have created an option for monthly donations.
A monthly gift is a recurring gift amount that you choose to send each month, and it is even more impactful because you're helping children every single day.
Your monthly gift will also enable us plan effectively in our upcoming work, reduce costs and most importantly, reach even more children in need. We couldn't continue our efforts without the support and generosity of monthly donors, and we hope you'll consider joining the UNICEF family.
You can make a monthly gift here - https://help.unicef.org/thank-you
No donation is too small, and any donation can help save children's lives. With a donation of just $100, you can support children with:
- 300 sachets of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food to help malnourished children
- or 30 packages of measles vaccine (vial of 10 doses) to protect children against malaria
- or 2 wash and dignity kits, helping provide essential hygiene to children and families
UNICEF accepts online donations by credit card on all of our donation pages. Thanks to donors like you, we can make a difference for children's lives. Please visit https://help.unicef.org/ to make a donation today for your cause of choice.
If you are unable to use your credit card for an online donation, you can visit your local UNICEF country page for more details. Some countries accept donations made via cheque or phone.
Unfortunately we do not accept cryptocurrency or NFT donations at this time.
We always appreciate the kind offers for non-financial items like blankets, clothing, food, and medication, but unfortunately we cannot accept these gifts and have to turn them down.
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