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Monthly donations make lasting change for kids!

Behind every smile are long-term projects and programmes that tackle the root cause of problems affecting children’s present and future. They’re funded by incredible monthly donations, big and small! It's generous kiwis that help us keep fighting the good fight - on a scale like no other.

We may be the world’s largest children’s charity but we don't work in isolation. To better understand the unique needs of every child we work closely with families, communities and governments in over 190 countries - using life-changing monthly donations to plan for the big picture!

Why a monthly donation?

For over 77 years we’ve worked to deliver lasting change for children while also addressing their immediate needs. To move from emergency response to investing, implementing, maintaining, and scaling-up sustainable, innovative solutions requires a steady pool of donations.

Just as donors would carefully plan how much they're able to give monthly, we're strategically mapping out how every dollar can make long-term positive change for kids - for generations to come!

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MONTHLY DONATIONS HELP US IMPROVE AND STRENGTHEN

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  • 10-month-old Adela is photographed in the inpatient ward of Wardak Provincial Hospital with her mother.
    HEALTH

    Primary HEALTH CARE so prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation is quality and accessible.

  • 7-month-old baby boy Sanad is fed by his mother, Raneem Hani Ahmed Hasan.
    NUTRITION

    Strong food services and systems to improve NUTRITION and tackle child malnutrition, in every corner.

  • Children at the playground of their school made out of recycled plastic bricks.
    EDUCATION

    EDUCATION to be fair, inclusive, and innovative - to create a brighter future filled with opportunity for every child.

  • 10-month-old Adela is photographed in the inpatient ward of Wardak Provincial Hospital with her mother.
    HEALTH

    Primary HEALTH CARE so prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation is quality and accessible.

THE POTENTIAL OF WHAT WE CAN DO WITH MONTHLY DONATIONS IS UNLIMITED!

Keep scrolling to see more of the lasting mahi behind every smile! Kiwis like you are helping build this incredible future for kids all around the world.


Here’s just a glimpse of what long-term innovation looks like in our WATER work!

Global Parent- 3 innovative ways UNICEF is creating sustainable access to water for children

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  • Global Parent- In the disadvantaged region of Mbout, one of the poorest in Mauritania, access to water and sanitation is a major problem for the population. Here, a young girl fetches water from the village well.

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    NUTRITION:
    SOLAR GROWTH

    Water, nutrition, income and autonomy. Using innovation and low-cost technology - UNICEF's solar projects are designed to be locally run and easily maintained. This promotes independence while also supplying a sustainable and climate resilient source for all the basics in life that children, families, and communities need to grow and thrive.

    It’s this kind of lasting innovation that help create a future, for every child!

  • Global Parent- In the Fulani village of Hore Mondji, located in southern Mauritania on the banks of the Senegal River, a women's cooperative uses solar energy to operate the borehole that supplies water to the market garden.

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    NUTRITION:
    SOLAR GROWTH

    With the help of monthly donations and local partners, UNICEF dug boreholes and constructed solar pumping stations throughout the country. Bringing water to their doorstep is just one way this solar project is nourishing these remote communities.

  • Global Parent- This women's co-op in southern Mauritania is harnessing the power of the sun to pump water from the boreholes and irrigate their crops.

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    NUTRITION:
    SOLAR GROWTH

    This women's co-op in southern Mauritania is harnessing the power of the sun to pump water from the boreholes and irrigate their crops.

  • Global Parent- Hands holding vegetables.

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    NUTRITION:
    SOLAR GROWTH

    In a country devastated by drought, solar power provides a limitless source of energy. This helps the village grow more than enough healthy fruits, vegetables, and plants to feed them while also providing enough to sell on in neighbouring towns.

  • Global Parent- In the disadvantaged region of Mbout, one of the poorest in Mauritania, access to water and sanitation is a major problem for the population. Here, a young girl fetches water from the village well.

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    NUTRITION:
    SOLAR GROWTH

    Water, nutrition, income and autonomy. Using innovation and low-cost technology - UNICEF's solar projects are designed to be locally run and easily maintained. This promotes independence while also supplying a sustainable and climate resilient source for all the basics in life that children, families, and communities need to grow and thrive.

    It’s this kind of lasting innovation that help create a future, for every child!

Education:
Building endless opportunity

We want each and every monthly donation to be invested in the most innovative ideas that will stand the test of time. These clean green plastic schools really fit the brief.


UNICEF Côte d'Ivoire teamed up with a Colombian social enterprise to transform plastic waste into safe and sustainable materials used to build schools.


This construction method is literally strengthening the foundations of a successful education system while tackling the mounting issue of plastic production and waste management. It's a ground breaking, low-cost and durable solution to solve the classrooms urgently needed in Côte d’Ivoire.

Children are very happy with the construction of their new classes made of plastic bricks, in Sakassou, a village in the center of Côte d'Ivoire.

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Health:
A giant step forwards

Wanna know what’s behind her smile? Every year UNICEF send around 220 million mosquito nets to kids like 3-year-old Fresia in over 120 countries, to protect them from malaria. Now, thanks to monthly donations, something truly game changing has landed to help protect kids from this life-threatening disease.


We’re currently rolling out 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine to twelve countries across Africa!


Nearly every minute, a child under 5 years old dies of malaria. For a long time, these deaths have been preventable and treatable - but the roll-out of this vaccine will give children an even better chance at not only surviving, but thriving. This is just the beginning.


The future potential for vaccines is truly unlimited! And we have the receipts to back it up.

Global Parent- 3-year-old Fresia Manrique sits in her room after having been vaccinated against influenza by Nurse Maribel Vilela Grandez from a UNICEF-supported health brigade.

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A history of success

We’ve come so far in the fight against disease over the last two hundred years thanks to one of the most successful and cost effective public health interventions - vaccines. In 1980 we used vaccines to eliminate one of the deadliest diseases in the world, smallpox. Now we're on track to do the same with polio!

 

4-year-old Ajwa’s smile really speaks volumes as she shows off the ink mark on her little finger - a sign of her receiving a polio vaccination.

Ajwa, 4, shows off the ink mark on her little finger, which confirms that she has received polio vaccine.

Maintaining this progress has only been possible as the largest single vaccine buyer in the world, procuring more than 2 billion doses of vaccines annually for routine immunisation and outbreak response on behalf of nearly 100 countries.

 

It's what helped us launch the largest vaccine operation effort in history at the beginning of the pandemic.

Though our job goes beyond providing vaccines. For over 77 years we've lead routine immunisation drives, strengthened supply chains, engaged governments, built vaccine trust and support in communities, maintained affordability, collected data, monitored the spread of disease, and ensured access for even the hardest-to-reach families.


It's regular monthly donations helping us put all these pieces together. And if our history is anything to go by - it's what will help us overcome malaria too!

Global Parent- A girl watches a man health worker vaccinate her against smallpox.

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A little girl in India getting her smallpox vaccination in India, 1961.

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Our development
milestones in 2022

*2023 development milestones will be updated mid 2024


  • UNICEF constructed 1,855 solar water systems - providing safe water to communities, health-care facilities and schools. Our direct support resulted in 5.4 million people using climate-resilient water systems and 3.2 million using climate-resilient sanitation facilities.

  • 182.4 million children under 5 benefited from services for the early prevention, detection and treatment of child wasting - one of the most visible and lethal type of malnutrition. What's more - 356.3 million children benefited from programmes to prevent undernutrition.

  • UNICEF urged every government to endorse and commit to the RAPID agenda: Reach and retain every child in school; Assess learning levels; Prioritise teaching the fundamentals; Increase catch-up learning and progress beyond what was lost; and Develop psychosocial health and well-being so every child is ready to learn.

  • UNICEF was awarded a $170 million contract to supply the first-ever malaria vaccine. The landmark award will lead to the availability of 18 million doses over the next three years, potentially saving thousands of lives every year. Furthermore 67 countries have integrated mental health services into primary health care, including through school and digital platforms since 2021.
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Kamana Mundia (43 yrs) is part of the farming cooperation which is part of the SUN PHASE II project in Zambia, a four year program supported by UNICEF and other UN and government agencies.
Planting seeds to thrive

In Eastern Zambia, women spend their day planting and harvesting crops. It’s hard work—but the smiles on their faces are because they have food to feed their families.

Akatukunda Jovat interacts with her ten months baby Amutuhirwe Traesure in the pediatric ward at Itojo hospital in Ntungamo district. The ward had no malaria case because the district implements Ministry of health and UNICEF interventions including mosquito nets among others in fight against malaria
First-ever malaria vaccine saves countless lives in Africa

A revolutionary tool for saving lives, 35-years in the making, has been rolled out in countries that need it most. 18 million doses of the first-of-its-kind vaccine against malaria is set to change the lives of kids in Africa. This is a historic step in health care! And it's all thanks to the dedicated support from partners and UNICEF donors.

A young boy eats a bowl of rice as his only meal that day at a home near Kenema, Sierra Leone
It's an ambitious goal to end world hunger by 2030

3 billion people globally cannot afford a healthy diet. We're not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030. Over the last five years the number of people who suffer from hunger continues to increase.

We’re committed to transparency. To see how we split up expenses and manage our costs, read our annual report or visit UNICEF Open to see a live overview of all our projects.

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