UNICEF needs money. The United Nations Children’s Fund on Tuesday launched an appeal for donations of $9.3 billion to help more than 90 million children affected by conflicts and climate disasters around the world in 2024.
“Millions of children continue to suffer from increasingly complex and large-scale humanitarian crises, which place increasing demands on our resources,” commented the head of the UN agency Catherine Russell, while all humanitarians are struggling to finance growing needs around the world. “Children should not have to pay with their lives and their future. They must have constant access to basic services, whether health, drinking water, hygiene or education,” she added.
Part of the money to vaccinate against measles
In response to the “alarming” number of children facing unprecedented crises, Unicef is therefore asking for $9.3 billion to help at least 93.7 million children in 155 countries next year. This money aims to primarily help Afghanistan (nearly 1.5 billion), Syrian refugees, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees.
More generally, Unicef aims, through this envelope, to vaccinate 17.3 million children against measles, to treat 7.6 million children suffering from severe malnutrition, to provide access to education for 19.3 million children, drinking water for 52.4 million, or even providing psychological support to 26.7 million children and adolescents.
The appeal of the United Nations Population Fund
For its part, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Tuesday launched an appeal for donations of $1.2 billion to provide sexual and reproductive health services to 48 million women and girls. in 58 countries affected by humanitarian crises.
“If we don’t put (women and girls) first, we will see more gender-based violence, more child marriages, and more deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth,” he said. commented the agency’s boss Natalia Kanem. UNFPA’s priority countries are Afghanistan, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Ukraine, Somalia and Ethiopia.