Help for refugee children in Syria

More than a million children are fleeing the gun fire and millions more are caught in Syria in the midst of the battle. These children desperately need help. They are missing the necessities. UNICEF provides them with drinking water, medications and other items essential for survival.

Refugee children need our help

Hundreds of thousands refugee children in Syria, Northern Iraq and the neighbouring countries need urgent help to overcome the cold period of the year. UNICEF provides winter packages with warm clothes and shoes and more life-saving reliefs.

UNICEF battles against famines

Small packages of peanut paste can save the lives of children suffering from life-threatening malnutrition. The precious additional food full of important nutritive substances is used with success to treat severe consumption.

Help for the people affected by the typhoon Haiyan

The typhoon Haiyan has left a swath of destruction at the Philippines. Almost six millions of children are affected, reams of them do not have a home any more. UNICEF helps and provides clear water, hygiene and drugs.

Because babies need our help

6.9 millions of children worldwide die before their 5^th birthday - 40 percent of them do not even reach an age of a month. About 287,000 do not survive the birth of their child each year. With the campaign "Time to share", UNICEF appeals for donations for the surviving of newborns and their mothers.

A silent catastrophe: malnutrition in the Sahel

According to estimations, more than one million children in eight countries are threatened by severe malnutrition in the next months. Because of droughts, poor harvests, high food costs and extreme poverty, many families cannot feed themselves with enough food.

A place in the classroom for every child

Every child has a right on education. Though, in African countries south of the Sahara, every third child does not attend school. Many families are too poor to pay the school material for their children. Qualified teachers are missing and the AIDS epidemic tightens the situation-

For the children's right on water

Clear drinking water and hygienic life cirumstances are essential for survival and a premise for the healthy upgrowth of children. And it saves time and power for school, when children do not need to take hours to get clear water. 

Save children from starvation

With #Stop10Seconds UNICEF says: starving children shall not be left alone and the helix of famine and death shall be ended. The aim: save 10,000 children in South Sudan from starvation!

Das Überleben hungernder Kinder sichern

UNICEF ruft unter dem Titel „Lass die Zukunft nicht verhungern“ zu Spenden für Kinder und Familien auf, die an Hunger leiden. Weltweit leidet heute jeder neunte Mensch an Hunger und insgesamt 150 Millionen Kinder sind wegen chronischer Mangelernährung unterentwickelt.  

UNICEF hat in den vergangenen Jahren in Griechenland tausende geflüchtete und migrierte Kinder und ihre Familien unterstützt. Dazu gehört es, sicherzustellen, dass diese Mädchen und Jungen Zugang zu Kinderschutzmaßnahmen, psychosozialer Unterstützung, Gesundheitsversorgung und Bildung erhalten.

Zeichen setzen für Zusammenhalt

UNICEF konzentriert sich im Kampf gegen das Coronavirus auf das, was es am besten kann: besonders benachteiligte Kinder und Familien in Kriegs- und Krisengebieten mit Hilfsgütern und Unterstützung zu erreichen. Dabei arbeitet die Organisation Hand in Hand mit der WHO, Regierungen und vielen verschiedenen Partnern zusammen.