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A transparent wall covered with children’s drawings.

The work we do is crucial for supporting children

Marieme Diallo, Logistics Manager, UNICEF Supply Division, reflects on her emergency response mission to support Ukraine.

How UNICEF’s supply response in Ukraine has evolved

Read more about the life-saving supplies UNICEF has been delivering to Ukraine and surrounding countries.

A boy sits by a backpack in a UNICEF-supported temporary learning centre in Pakistan.

UNICEF appeals for US$10.3 billion emergency funding to support children affected by conflict, catastrophe and climate crises around the world

Funds will support essential programs for over 110 million children across 155 countries and territories through 2023.

Building a supply pipeline amid war

The war in Ukraine has raged for six months. UNICEF has been adapting its supply response to meet the needs of children affected by the emergency.

On 26 July 2022, UNICEF delivers life-saving supplies to Odesa to help an estimated 50,000 children in the war-ravaged districts of southern Ukraine.

UNICEF delivers life-saving supplies to Odesa in southern Ukraine to help over 50,000 children affected by war

12 month old Mariam is given ready-to-use therapeutic food treatment in Burkina Faso.

Global hunger crisis pushing one child into severe malnutrition every minute in 15 crisis-hit countries

Ahead of G7 summit, UNICEF appeals for US$1.2 billion to meet urgent needs of 8 million children at risk of death from severe wasting

Somalia. A child is held by his mother as he feeds on a sachet of ready-to-use therapeutic food.

World a ‘virtual tinderbox’ for catastrophic levels of severe malnutrition in children

Soaring food prices driven by the war in Ukraine and pandemic-fuelled budget cuts set to drive up both need for, and cost of life-saving therapeutic food treatment, the latter by up to 16 per cent.

On 21 April 2021, three WHO staff members inspect the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines for the COVAX Facility in Jdaydet Yabous, a village situated on the border between Syria and Lebanon, in the rural area of Damascus.

Syria receives its first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility

Joint Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Ted Chaiban, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr. Ahmad Al-Mandhari, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Director of Country Support, Pascal Bijleveld

Four classmates hold set of mathematical instruments: ruler, protractor, drafting compass and set square in front of the blackboard, in their classroom, in a school in Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso, in August 2018.

For children! When it’s urgent!

With the right education supplies, children have a chance to continue learning despite living in very difficult circumstances.