SUGGESTED DONATIONS OF £250 PP

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All proceeds will go direct to UNICEF UK's vital work supporting displaced children fleeing conflicts and disasters around the world this winter.

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Thank you from UNICEF.

This year, it feels like there has never been a more challenging time for children worldwide. They are facing war, disasters, catastrophic impacts of climate change, and other crises – including COVID-19 – in countries around the world. And when crisis strikes, it is children that are often hardest hit, like right now in Afghanistan, Ukraine and the Horn of Africa.

Afghanistan:
Afghanistan has long been one of the toughest places on earth to be a child. But now the country is facing a child’s rights crisis. UNICEF has pledged to stay and deliver, to help protect the childhoods of the 12.9 million children in need. The families who don’t know where their next meal is coming from. The girls who are being denied the education that is their right. UNICEF has already supported over 5.3 million children with access to education. But so many more children and families in Afghanistan still urgently need our help.

Ukraine:
All 7.5 million of Ukraine’s children are affected by the war. Millions have already lost their homes, families, and schools. They have lost the ability to just be kids. UNICEF is working around the clock in Ukraine and refugee hosting countries to keep children safe – ensuring they have clean water and nutritious food, delivering critical supplies to families, and ensuring child health and protection services are sustained.  UNICEF has activated “Blue Dot” safe spaces along refugee routes, providing access to water and medical supplies, mental health support, and – even in a crisis like this – a place to rest and play. 

The Horn of Africa:
At least 10 million children are facing severe drought in the Horn of Africa, where children are experiencing the impacts of one of the worst climate-induced emergencies of the past 40 years. This situation is made worse by the war in Ukraine, which is impacting communities far away from Ukraine's borders. The fighting has disrupted global food production, causing prices to spike to an all-time high.  As a result, hundreds of thousands of people are urgently looking for food, safe water and other life-saving services across Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya.  UNICEF is working across the region to provide life-saving aid, including treatment for severe acute malnutrition, and access to clean water and health services.

What your donation can do for the children:

£250- Your donation could help pay for school supplies to help 62 children continue their education in an emergency.

£1,000-  Your donation could help pay for an emergency shelter to use as a school, clinic, or child protection centre.

After an earthquake struck Haiti in August this year, UNICEF installed this tent and others at Ofatma Hospital, Les Cayes, to shelter patients and their families who feared the main hospital building could collapse

£5,000- Your donation could help pay for 150 solar powered, wind-up radios to provide distanced learning and life-saving information for children and their families.

In Mali, 13-year-old Makono tunes into school lessons every Wednesday and Thursday evening. His family were forced to flee more than 120 miles to escape armed attacks in their region. As well as setting up temporary learning spaces, UNICEF is helping to place children in local schools where possible and has provided 3,000 solar radios for Malian children like Makono to continue to learn. In February, UNICEF was supporting almost 52,000 displaced children in Mali and continues to support children all across the region.

£10,000- Your donation could help set up 100 emergency classrooms with UNICEF school-in-a-box kits.

In Papua New Guinea, local volunteers helped to get school-in-a-box kits to remote schools in Milne Bay Province as part of an early childhood development project supported by UNICEF. School-in-a-box kits are a key item in our emergency response to keep children learning and also to give children the best start in life with age-appropriate, early-learning toys and supplies.

£15,000- Your donation could help pay for 6 UNICEF high-performance tents for weather-resistant schools, shelters, or clinics.

UNICEF tents take a real beating. We cover so many geographical locations and humanitarian situations that we needed stronger, more versatile tents to better serve and protect vulnerable children and their families. UNICEF looked to the market for a solution, but couldn’t find it, so we drove product development ourselves, working with labs and interested manufacturers.