UNICEF emergency relief

Ready for use at any time: UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein’s Emergency Relief Fund. By donating to the Emergency Relief Fund, you can ensure the timely provision of relief supplies and help save children’s lives in crisis situations and disasters around the world.

After months of suffering, there is finally hope for peace in Israel and Gaza, with the ceasefire deal taking effect in mid-January. This reprieve, however, was short-lived. The fighting has resumed and the violence continues. UNICEF is there on the ground, doing all it can to help the children of Gaza.

Syrians have reason to hope for a new beginning. It remains to be seen what the regime change will mean for the civilian population, but it’s a fact that the humanitarian situation is dire for the children after many years of war. That’s why UNICEF is and will be standing by them.

The severe earthquake in Myanmar has left millions of children in grave danger and worsened an already dire humanitarian crisis.

Sudan is facing a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions. 14 million children lack food, safe water, shelter and medical care. They urgently need humanitarian aid.

After three years of war, over 14 million people in Ukraine depend on humanitarian aid – including 3.2 million children. UNICEF is working in Ukraine and many neighboring countries and continuing its emergency response.

Yemen remains one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world. After ten long years of conflict, the country is deeply mired in an economic crisis. Its infrastructure has largely collapsed and the supply situation is worsening steadily. Around half of the population is dependent on humanitarian aid.

Afghanistan is under threat from a humanitarian disaster: weakened by multiple crisessuch as natural catastrophes, conflicts, disease and hunger, people are battling for survival every day. More than half of the population need urgent help, including 15 million children.