The holiday season is here—a time for kindness, love, and giving to those who need it most. But for millions of children facing crisis, this time of year isn’t about celebrations. It’s about survival.

This year, you can bring hope and life-saving care to a child who needs it.

This Christmas, your gift can be a celebration of kindness and hope. While we embrace the festive season, there’s an opportunity to share its warmth with children who need it most.

By gifting through UNICEF, you can provide essentials like life-saving therapeutic food and cozy winter kits to brighten their lives. It’s a simple way to let your generosity shine and make this season even more meaningful.

Join the spirit of giving and make your Christmas a reason for joy everywhere.

Your gift today can be a lifeline for children facing the toughest challenges

Sanad malnutrition story
Helping children like Sanad fight hunger and malnutrition
Sanad, like millions of other children in Yemen, was suffering from severe malnutrition. But thanks to the timely medical care at a UNICEF-supported center, he is now recovering back to health. With your support, more children like Sanad can gain access to essential life-saving medical care they need to survive.
Hanadi from Gaza
Helping mothers like Hanadi
Each day, more families in Gaza face unimaginable hardships. With your support, UNICEF can continue delivering life-saving essentials like therapeutic food, nutritional supplies, safe water, and critical support to these children and families. Your help is needed now more than ever.
Girl called Hurain smiling and looking to camera
The joy of clean water for children like Shahd
Your generosity can help UNICEF reach more children like Shahd with uninterrupted access to clean water in places like Jordan and beyond.
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Cash assistance to help mothers like Nazook
For mothers like Nazook, your support can mean cash assistance to purchase essential items for their children and a chance to rebuild their livelihoods with dignity.
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A Makana for children like Shaimaa
For children living in conflict-torn areas, the UNICEF-established Makana is their safe space where they get to learn, play, and heal. Your donation can help reach more children with such protective spaces.

Why Your Gift Matters?

  • Because children need you: When disasters strike or crises unfold, children are the first to suffer. Your monthly support ensures they don’t face these challenges alone.
  • Because every step forward matters: From therapeutic food to a life-saving vaccine, your donations help children take one more step toward health, survival, and a chance to rebuild their future.
  • Because hope doesn’t come in moments, it comes in commitments: Staying means being there not just today but for every tomorrow that follows.

How Your Gift Transforms Lives This Holiday Season and Beyond?

Crises come in many forms – wars, floods, hunger, drought, earthquakes – but they all have one thing in common: a devastating impact on children’s lives.

Your generosity during this festive season is more than a gift; it’s a lifeline. With your regular support, we can respond immediately at the onset of a crisis, anywhere and everywhere. It will help provide urgent relief like medical aid, safe water, and life-saving food but also allow us to plan and deliver ongoing support to help rebuild shattered lives.

RUTf

Provides life-saving therapeutic food
and supplies for malnourished children.

clean water

Delivers clean water and sanitation
for countless children and families in need.

School in a box

Creates safe spaces
where children can heal, learn, and just be children again.

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Supports building critical infrastructure
and finding sustainable solutions to ensure children and communities can recover and thrive.


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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 donours, and we hope you'll consider joining the UNICEF family.

You can make a monthly gift here - https://help.unicef.org/thank-you

UNICEF accepts online donations by credit card on all of our donation pages. Thanks to donours 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.