Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated among households with children, in particular large households with young children. These numbers reflect the fact that children are more vulnerable to poverty than adults. Most children typically cannot work for legal reasons and therefore do not generate incomes for themselves.
Help UNICEF deliver life-saving support to children in need.
Poverty in childhood is felt most immediately and brutally by children themselves, but its implications stretch much further. Failure to invest in children, in particular the poorest and most vulnerable, is one of the costliest mistakes a society can make. Children who live in extreme poverty are often deprived of their most basic needs, including food, shelter, sanitation, healthcare and education. They are more likely to have trouble concentrating in the classroom (if they are enrolled in school at all), have a higher likelihood of poor health, develop fewer skills for the workforce, and earn lower wages as adults, often resulting in intergenerational poverty. The poorest children are twice as likely to die in childhood than their wealthier peers.
Your generosity will help UNICEF provide life-saving and critical supplies like cash assistance, therapeutic food, access to water, and much more to the most vulnerable children of the world.
In Poverty, children suffer most