Humanitarian emergency appeal
Support children in crisis, from Gaza to Afghanistan.
Support Children in crisis
Help deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid.
Urgent assistance required
The world is facing an unprecedented number of humanitarian emergencies resulting from natural disasters and war. Innocent and vulnerable people including children have been killed or injured and huge populations have been displaced as homes have been destroyed. In the most affected areas, access to the most basic human needs (food, safe water, shelter, medical supplies) is dwindling or exhausted.
Your support is urgently needed to help deliver life-saving humanitarian assistance to children and families.
How you can help:
ChildFund NZ works with local humanitarian aid partners already on the ground to provide access to safe shelter, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) facilities, emergency and health related aid, education and psychosocial support while assessing long-term needs of impacted regions.
Your support will go towards helping children and families affected by:
- Conflict in Gaza
- Earthquakes in Afghanistan and Morocco
- Flooding in Libya
Children need urgent humanitarian assistance in Gaza, Afghanistan, Morocco and Libya.
Help children now
Your compassion will go towards providing life-saving humanitarian aid where needed most.
GAZA
No safe places for children
Innocent children are victims of the conflict in Gaza. There are no safe places for children to shelter as schools, churches and even hospitals are bombed as the conflict escalates. With a full electricity blackout, essential health and sanitation services are collapsing resulting in the high risk of an outbreak of deadly infectious diseases.
Destruction of civilian infrastructure.
Over 4,000 children killed
Over 1,000 missing.
258 schools bombed
With 229 more becoming shelters.
Over 7,500 children injured
Making up 60% of hospital patients.
625,000 children have lost access to school
AFGHANISTAN
Earthquakes hit already vulnerable communities
Since 7th October, four earthquakes and multiple aftershocks have hit the Herat Province killing predominantly women and children and displacing many more. Prior to the earthquakes, Afghanistan was already facing a humanitarian crisis affecting 28.3 million people. And now with many homes being destroyed families are in desperate need of emergency shelter ahead of winter.
Devastation in Herat Province.
Over 2,000 deaths
1,853 injured
Mainly women and children.
3,067 homes destroyed
Over 19,250 people directly affected
MOROCCO
Thousands homeless as winter approaches
56,000 homes have collapsed or are inhabitable as a result of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Morocco on 8 September leaving thousands of families without shelter as temperatures in the Atlas Mountains drop with winter approaching. With many schools damaged providing access to education is a priority to regain some sense of normality for the many children impacted by the devastating earthquake.
Children and mothers displaced by earthquakes.
More than 2,946 people have lost their lives
100,000 children impacted by the earthquake
Over 500 schools damaged or completely destroyed
56,000 homes destroyed or uninhabitable
LIBYA
High risk of viral disease outbreak
The devasting impacts of the floods in Libya are being acutely felt by children. Severe drinking water shortages and contamination has already resulted in 55 children being poisoned by drinking polluted water. Sewage and sanitation facilities have been destroyed increasing the risk of a viral disease outbreak, nearly 300,000 children now face diarrhea and cholera, dehydration and malnutrition.
Loss of homes and risk of viral disease outbreak.
3,859 lives lost
Over 40,000 people displaced
300,000 children at risk of viral disease outbreak
9,000 people still missing
Donate Now
Help deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid.
Your support is urgently needed to help deliver life-saving humanitarian assistance to children and families.
How you can help:
With your help, we can scale up support for local humanitarian aid partners to provide affected families with:
- Access to safe shelter
- Water and sanitation facilities
- Emergency and health-related aid, and
- Education and psychosocial support
Help provide children in Gaza with emergency water and sanitation facilities.