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Delivering emergency supplies

UNICEF’s emergency supply and logistics teams are working around the clock to send life-saving supplies where they are needed most.

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Delivering emergency supplies

UNICEF supports children and families affected by conflicts, disease outbreaks and disasters by mobilizing supplies that range from medical equipment to sanitation kits and temporary learning spaces.

While each emergency requires a different response, UNICEF aims to deliver supplies from a network of global supply hubs, bringing timely relief to children and families anywhere in the world. As part of the initial response to emergencies, UNICEF provides standardized kits to meet the most urgent needs of affected communities.

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UNICEF staff oversees the supply delivery process and ensures the quality and availability of critical supplies — UNICEF/UNI444759/Mahari

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UNICEF staff offloading a truck carrying emergency supplies

In response to the flooding caused by Storm Daniel, UNICEF and Libyan Red Crescent offload a truck carrying emergency supplies, including UNICEF's hygiene kits, at Om Almomenen School, a school sheltering those affected in Derna, eastern Libya.

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UNICEF staff is packing supplies in response the flooding in Libya

At UNICEF Global Supply and Logistics Hub in Copenhagen, Denmark, supplies are prepared to be airlifted to Libya in response to the devastating flooding. This first wave of UNICEF’s international deliveries contains over 30 tons of medicines and medical equipment, emergency food rations and water purification tablets to meet the most urgent needs of children and their families.

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In Mali, a child is being measured with a MUAC tape in a tent used as a waiting room for mobile clinic services. Nearly 3,000 displaced people, more than half of whom are children, have fled violence, conflict and food insecurity to find refuge at Bawa IDP sites in the country.

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In Sudan, UNICEF staff and partners travel on a boat with life-saving health supplies to be utilized in the Accelerated Child Survival Campaign supported by UNICEF. More than 1,000 frontline health workers and volunteers delivered a package of health services including measles vaccination, vitamin A supplementation, deworming medicines, treatment of malnutrition and nutrition screening to 40,000 children under five years in refugee camps and host communities.

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A boy fetches drinking water from a tanker

In Pakistan, eight-year-old Hasnain fetches drinking water from a tanker provided by UNICEF through its implementing partner Qatar Charity, in a village of Dera Murad Jamali in Nasirabad district. UNICEF is providing safe water to communities affected by floods over the last year.

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Our emergency response

A woman living in Desportivo, a temporary accommodation centre in Pemba, Mozambique, walks carrying her baby in the pack and UNICEF hygiene kits containing clothes, underwear and sanitary products.

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Pre-packed kits for emergencies and beyond

The kits serve as a first response to urgent needs where local market solutions are not immediately available or accessible.

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How critical supplies are supporting children in Pakistan

Take a look at UNICEF's critical role in providing shelter, medicines and education to children and families affected by 2022’s catastrophic floods.

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UNICEF staff engage with displaced children at a gathering point

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UNICEF supply and logistics experts are ready to respond

In deployments called “surge deployment missions”, they play a vital role in UNICEF’s ability to promptly scale up a response to large-scale emergencies.

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UNICEF’s Supply and Logistics Specialist, John Philip Perez

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Pre-positioning of supplies saves lives

How emergency preparedness helped UNICEF to respond to needs of children and families when typhoon Rai hit the Philippines.

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Nearly 300,000 children are estimated to have been impacted by the powerful Storm Daniel in eastern Libya. Our colleague Erika Abs reports on how UNICEF is mobilizing medical, nutrition, hygiene and shelter supplies to help flood-impacted families.

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UNICEF and partners provide children and families with essential supplies to save lives and to ensure the rights of all children.

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We need your urgent support to help save lives.

UNICEF and partners provide children and families with essential supplies to save lives and to ensure the rights of all children.

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Delivering emergency supplies

UNICEF’s emergency supply and logistics teams are working around the clock to send life-saving supplies where they are needed most.

Weekly spotlight

Previous emergency snapshots

In response to the flooding caused by Storm Daniel, UNICEF and Libyan Red Crescent offload a truck carrying emergency supplies, including UNICEF's hygiene kits, at Om Almomenen School, a school sheltering those affected in Derna, eastern Libya.

In Mali, a child is being measured with a MUAC tape in a tent used as a waiting room for mobile clinic services. Nearly 3,000 displaced people, more than half of whom are children, have fled violence, conflict and food insecurity to find refuge at Bawa IDP sites in the country.

In Pakistan, eight-year-old Hasnain fetches drinking water from a tanker provided by UNICEF through its implementing partner Qatar Charity, in a village of Dera Murad Jamali in Nasirabad district. UNICEF is providing safe water to communities affected by floods over the last year.

Our emergency response

Pre-packed kits for emergencies and beyond

How critical supplies are supporting children in Pakistan

UNICEF supply and logistics experts are ready to respond

Pre-positioning of supplies saves lives

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We need your urgent support to help save lives.

We need your urgent support to help save lives.

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Delivering emergency supplies

UNICEF’s emergency supply and logistics teams are working around the clock to send life-saving supplies where they are needed most.

In response to the flooding caused by Storm Daniel, UNICEF and Libyan Red Crescent offload a truck carrying emergency supplies, including UNICEF's hygiene kits, at Om Almomenen School, a school sheltering those affected in Derna, eastern Libya.

In Mali, a child is being measured with a MUAC tape in a tent used as a waiting room for mobile clinic services. Nearly 3,000 displaced people, more than half of whom are children, have fled violence, conflict and food insecurity to find refuge at Bawa IDP sites in the country.

In Pakistan, eight-year-old Hasnain fetches drinking water from a tanker provided by UNICEF through its implementing partner Qatar Charity, in a village of Dera Murad Jamali in Nasirabad district. UNICEF is providing safe water to communities affected by floods over the last year.

Pre-packed kits for emergencies and beyond

How critical supplies are supporting children in Pakistan

UNICEF supply and logistics experts are ready to respond

Pre-positioning of supplies saves lives

We need your urgent support to help save lives.

We need your urgent support to help save lives.

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