Press release
Scaling up supplies and services for children in the Gaza Strip
NEW YORK, 27 January 2025, – UNICEF has accelerated the distribution of supplies and services to children in the Gaza Strip, with more than 350 trucks entering in the first week of the long-awaited ceasefire. The trucks, filled with water, hygiene kits, malnutrition treatments, warm clothes, tarpaulins and other ...
Press release
UNICEF provides medical supplies for about 2 million people in need in Lebanon
BEIRUT, 8 October 2024 –, UNICEF is providing 167 metric tons of medical supplies for about 2 million people affected by the rapidly escalating conflict in Lebanon, especially women and children. UNICEF has delivered 67 metric tons of medical supplies in the past three days by land and air routes. These supplies, ...
Photo essay
Moments of fun amid upheaval and uncertainty
Today was the most fun that two-year-old Feras has had in days, if not weeks. After an arduous journey with his parents, Feras has just spent the day spent at a child-friendly space established at a bus station near Egypt’s border with Sudan. The temporary space was created to support some of the thousands of disp...
Article
UNICEF response at the Egyptian-Sudanese borders
UNICEF is providing immediate humanitarian services to children and families affected by the conflict in Sudan in close coordination with the Government of Egypt, the Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) , and development partners. The relief services include potable water, critical health care, vaccines, access to portabl...
Appeal
Immediate earthquake response plan for Syria
This immediate response plan outlines the humanitarian situation in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye and northern Syria on 6 February 2023. The response plan includes a map of the affected areas and outlines the humanitarian needs, priority response activities and funding ...
Report
Earthquake response: Humanitarian situation report 6-16 February 2023
UNICEF’s earthquake immediate response plan aims at reaching 5.4 million people, including 2.6 million children, from February to May 2023. As cluster lead for WASH, Nutrition and Education and as responsible for the areas of Child Protection, UNICEF is coordinating with partners in the affected areas to assess da...
Appeal
Immediate earthquake response plan for Syria
This immediate response plan outlines the humanitarian situation in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye and northern Syria on 6 February 2023. The response plan includes a map of the affected areas and outlines the humanitarian needs, priority response activities and funding ...
News note
Lifesaving supplies arrive in Syria to halt the spread of cholera
DAMASCUS, 20 October 2022, – UNICEF delivered lifesaving health and water, hygiene, and sanitation supplies to Syria earlier this week to scale up efforts to halt the cholera outbreak. The supplies included acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) kits to support health facilities and communities in treating 36,000 moderate a...
Article
Pfizer vaccines delivery in Egypt: A story of the essential cold chain
On the 30 th of September, Egypt received the first donation of Pfizer vaccines, gifted from the, U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Egypt U.S. Government, . Around, 1.6 million, vaccines, the first batch of a total of 8.2 million vaccine doses to be delivered to Egypt in the coming weeks and months. Delivering only va...
Photo essay
UNICEF winter assistance to children in Aleppo
During the past winter season, and thanks to generous contributions from Spain and the Department for International Development (DFID), UNICEF was able to reach around 60,000 children aged 0-14 in the governorate of Aleppo with much- needed warm winter clothes, to help them cope with the harsh weather. Each clothi...
Press release
Nearly 9 million Most Vulnerable People in Yemen Benefit from Unconditional Cash Assistance in the 5th Payment Cycle
SANA’A, 24 July 2019 –, Nearly 9 million people across Yemen have been reached with emergency cash assistance in the fifth payment cycle by UNICEF to help meet their urgent needs as the conflict in the country enters its fifth year. In August 2017, the Emergency Cash Transfer Project was started in Yemen to prov...
Report
Yemen: emergency cash transfer project
The Yemen Emergency Cash Transfer (ECT) Project has served over 1.38 million beneficiaries to date, going the extra mile to serve the hardest-to-reach. Implementation overview About 73,000 beneficiaries were served last week. The pace of beneficiaries covered has reduced compared to the 1 million served in the fir...