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The match lasts 90 minutes. Your support can last much longer.
Football fans know that the season does not end with one game. You come back. You stay. You show up for the next one.
Your regular monthly gift to UNICEF works in that same spirit - consistent support that reaches children through every stage of a crisis, not just the moments that make the news.
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Some children need the world to show up
"I wish to live like any other child."
Ten-year-old Eline is from Gaza. She was at home with her family when a missile struck without warning.
Her family survived. But the fear did not leave. The uncertainty did not leave.
"I wish to live like any other child," Eline says softly. "And to have a beautiful life."
Children like Eline need safety, care, and the chance to keep learning, healing, and holding on to childhood.
When we come together, UNICEF can help reach children with the support they need.
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How UNICEF helps children worldwide
Every day, UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to help children survive, recover and grow.
Help children stay in the game
Anwar has grown up in Jordan’s Za’atari Camp, where many children need safe spaces to learn, play, and belong.
At a UNICEF-supported Makani centre, he gets learning support, builds confidence, and finds joy on the football pitch.
Your support helps children like Anwar keep learning, growing, and dreaming.
At a UNICEF-supported Makani centre, he gets learning support, builds confidence, and finds joy on the football pitch.
Your support helps children like Anwar keep learning, growing, and dreaming.
Help make the save when every second counts
Sanad was only 4 months old when he was severely malnourished.
With timely care at a UNICEF-supported therapeutic feeding centre in Yemen, he recovered.
Your support helps children like Sanad get life-saving nutrition and health care when it matters most.
With timely care at a UNICEF-supported therapeutic feeding centre in Yemen, he recovered.
Your support helps children like Sanad get life-saving nutrition and health care when it matters most.
Help bring safe water onto home ground
In places like Somalia, children and families may travel long distances to find safe water.
UNICEF helps bring safe water closer to communities, so children have more time to learn, play, and grow.
Your support helps children access a basic need, closer to home.
UNICEF helps bring safe water closer to communities, so children have more time to learn, play, and grow.
Your support helps children access a basic need, closer to home.
Help children stay on track
After the earthquake in Myanmar last year, many children needed safe places to keep learning.
UNICEF is supporting temporary learning spaces, school supplies, teacher support, and psychosocial care for affected children.
Your support helps children continue learning, even when a crisis disrupts everything.
UNICEF is supporting temporary learning spaces, school supplies, teacher support, and psychosocial care for affected children.
Your support helps children continue learning, even when a crisis disrupts everything.
Back the team that reaches children
When crisis hits, UNICEF teams and partners work to reach children with urgent supplies, care, and support, even in the hardest-to-reach places.
Your support helps our team reach children when they need it most.
Your support helps our team reach children when they need it most.
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This season, join the team for children
When the world comes together, we are reminded of something powerful: how much can happen when we stand behind something we believe in.
Now let us bring that same spirit to children who need the world behind them- children facing conflict, hunger, disaster, and displacement. These need people who keep showing up. For them. As their team.
Join the team for children.
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Why join the team for children?
Because UNICEF is already working for children in over 190 countries and territories, reaching them with critical support before, during, and after emergencies.
When you give, you join a wider community helping sustain work that is already in motion - through local partners, frontline teams, and programmes designed around children’s most urgent needs.
Your regular support becomes part of a team that helps children keep going.
Over 400 humanitarian crises each year
UNICEF team is there, working to save children's lives and protect their rights.
Over 2.1 billion people
gained access to safe drinking water in the last two decades.
Over 9 million severely malnourished children
are reached with life-saving therapeutic food each year.
150 million children
gained access to education through UNICEF support since 2021.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who does UNICEF support and where does UNICEF work?
UNICEF, the United Nations agency for children, works to protect the rights of every child, especially the most disadvantaged and those hardest to reach. Across more than 190 countries and territories, we do whatever it takes to help children survive, thrive and fulfil their potential.
We provide and advocate for education, health and nutrition services. Protect children from violence and abuse. Bring safe water and sanitation to those in need. And keep them safe from climate change and disease.
UNICEF also plays a major role in global vaccine supply. We are the largest single vaccine buyer in the world, procuring more than 2 billion doses annually for routine immunization and outbreak response.
And when emergencies hit, speed matters. UNICEF runs a global supply operation, including the world's largest humanitarian warehouse and logistics hub, helping move life-saving supplies to where children need them most.
Before, during and after emergencies, we're on the ground with life-saving help and hope.
How will my donation be used?
Your donation helps UNICEF reach children in the most vulnerable situations, wherever the need is greatest. That means your support can help children and families in places like DRC, Uganda and beyond. Should urgent needs arise elsewhere in Eastern and Southern Africa or through global emergencies, funds may be redirected to deliver lifesaving support where it is needed most.
With your support, UNICEF can deliver life-saving essentials like safe water, medical supplies, vaccines, and life-saving therapeutic food, and help keep critical services running for children when local systems are under strain.
If you choose to support monthly, it helps UNICEF plan ahead and respond faster when needs surge during an emergency. Consistent support makes it easier to move supplies quickly and scale up what children need most. And you stay in control: you can adjust, pause, or cancel your monthly support at any time if your circumstances change.
Why is UNICEF asking for donations?
Because children's needs don't wait, and UNICEF is 100% funded by voluntary contributions from governments, private sector partners, and people like you. Your support helps keep essential services going for children and families and allows UNICEF to respond quickly during an emergency.
And if you choose to give monthly, it helps UNICEF plan ahead and scale faster when needs surge, because consistent support makes it easier to move supplies and keep help reaching children without delay.
Will I get a receipt for my donation?
Yes, you will receive an automatic "Thank You" email which can be used as a receipt for your donation.
Why are monthly donations important?
Not every child in crisis makes the news. But every one of them still needs us. Children rebuilding their lives after years of conflict. Families piecing things back together after a flood, a devastating earthquake, or an emergency the world has long stopped talking about.
Those children need just as much support as the ones making headlines today. But when the cameras move on, so does a lot of the funding.
A monthly donation makes a huge difference for these children.
It helps make sure a child in a forgotten emergency still has access to safe water next month. It helps a health clinic in a community recovering from years of hardship keep its doors open. It helps a girl who finally made it back to school find a teacher, a book, and a safe place to learn, month after month, not only when the world is watching.
Most importantly, a monthly gift, no matter the amount, is your commitment to children who are counting on us not to forget them.
What payment methods are accepted?
You can donate using a credit card. Please ensure your credit card has international transactions enabled.
Who do I contact if I have questions about my donation?
You can reach out to us by sending an email to [email protected]. We are here to answer any questions or address any concerns you may ​have.
How can I verify I'm donating through an official UNICEF channel?
A good rule: donate only through official UNICEF websites. Our pages start with "help.unicef.org" and "unicef.org".
Before you enter any details, do a quick safety check:
- Look for the correct UNICEF web address (no extra words, misspellings, or strange domains).
- Check for the padlock icon in your browser address bar. UNICEF donation pages use secure encryption to protect your information.
- If anything feels off, pause and contact UNICEF directly to confirm.
And one important note: UNICEF warns about scams that misuse the UNICEF name online, especially messages promising money, prizes, or asking for sensitive personal info. If you see anything like that, treat it as a scam.
If you suspect someone has contacted you fraudulently representing UNICEF, please be aware: UNICEF never solicits funds via Western Union, never expects employees to pay their own expenses, never participates in lottery awards, and never solicits donations with the promise of a commission.
When in doubt, don't proceed. Pause and verify through official UNICEF channels first.
How quickly can UNICEF respond during an emergency?
Fast, and that speed is something UNICEF has spent decades building.
UNICEF keeps pre-positioned supplies and contingency stock in over 250 warehouses across more than 70 countries, so when a crisis hits, life-saving help is often already nearby.
At the same time, UNICEF's Global Supply and Logistics Hub in Copenhagen, described by UNICEF as the world's largest humanitarian warehouse, can deliver pre-positioned life-saving supplies within 72 hours at the onset of an emergency, anywhere in the world.
The exact speed on the ground can vary depending on access and conditions, like security restrictions, damaged roads, or border procedures.
That readiness is powered by consistent support. When you give regularly, you're not only helping today, you're helping UNICEF stay ready to move the moment the next emergency begins.
Who are the beneficiaries of UNICEF?
Every child, everywhere. Especially the ones who are hardest to reach – children caught in conflict, displaced by disaster, living in extreme poverty, or growing up in places where the basics aren't guaranteed.
UNICEF works in more than 190 countries and territories, going wherever the need is greatest. That includes children and families in places like Sudan, Somalia, DRC, Gaza, Yemen, Myanmar, and many others, where growing up safely is far from certain.
And because children don't live in isolation, supporting the families and communities around them – parents and caregivers, local health workers, and teachers – is part of how we protect every child.