UNICEF in Emergencies. Children and families need your help urgently!

In conflict and disaster, children suffer first and suffer most. During emergencies and humanitarian contexts, children are especially vulnerable to disease, malnutrition and violence. Children living in conflict areas are worst off – they are more likely to be living in extreme poverty, for instance, or not enrolled in primary school.

Sustainable interventions are important because crises are not one-time shocks; their impact can last for years.

UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action for Children appeal helps support our work as it provides conflict- and disaster-affected children with access to water, sanitation, nutrition, education, health and protection services

Children in Pakistan are fighting to survive

Habib Jamali (8) and his family members were displaced due to floods from their village in Dera Murad Jamali, Naseerabad district, Balochistan. They are now living on the banks of the Sibi-Naseerabad highway with the meager belongings they managed to bring along.

Your donation can help UNICEF reach more children like Habib affected by floods in Pakistan.

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The situation is getting worse by the day

In emergencies like this, children are impacted the most.

Many of the 66 hardest-hit districts are amongst the most vulnerable districts in Pakistan, where children already suffer from high rates of malnutrition, and poor access to water and sanitation.

Most of the affected districts have damaged public health facilities with all medicines destroyed, and health workers also displaced from their homes. The risk of waterborne diseases is high, including cholera.

Your donation can help save and protect children

UNICEF teams have responded by delivering safe drinking water; lifesaving medical supplies, medicines and vaccines; therapeutic food supplies; and hygiene kits to children and families who are displaced and now live out in the open.

In these difficult times, your support can save lives. Your contribution can help UNICEF reach more children and families with critical, urgent and life-saving supplies.

With no sign of the rains ceasing, the number of people affected by the devastating floods is expected to multiply, as are the health risks. People have died, families have got displaced, homes have been destroyed.

This situation is really grave for those affected by this emergency. The heavy rainfall has damaged more than 3,000 km of roads and 145 bridges which not only hindered the ability of people to move to higher ground but has also complicated efforts to reach and assist them.

Please donate to help us deliver critical supplies to those affected.