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YOUR SPRING SUPPORTER UPDATE

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Two adolescent boys standing with their arms around each other’s shoulders and smiling outdoors in the sunshine, in front of a UNICEF tented shelter.

Your Spring Supporter Update

Discover the many ways you’re making a difference for children in urgent need.

Millions of children at grave risk following Myanmar’s deadliest earthquake in decades

UNICEF calls for urgent response as homes, schools, hospitals and critical infrastructure have sustained severe damage.

A building in Myanmar showing visible signs of destruction, with collapsed walls and debris, caused by a powerful earthquake.

At least 322 children reportedly killed in the Gaza Strip following breakdown of ceasefire

The resurgence of relentless and indiscriminate bombardments, combined with the complete block on supplies entering the Gaza Strip for more than three weeks, has put the humanitarian response under severe strain and Gaza’s civilians – especially its one million children – at grave risk.

A Gazan child stands on top of rubble in Northern Gaza.

UNICEF Geneva Palais briefing note: The impact of the earthquake in Myanmar on children

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF’s Deputy Representative, Julia Rees – to whom quoted text may be attributed – on the current situation in Myanmar at today’s Palais briefing.

Children and families take shelter in makeshift outdoor spaces in Mandalay, Myanmar, following the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck on 28 March 2025.

Senior Manager, Organizational Dynamics

UNICEF is the world’s farthest-reaching humanitarian organization for children. Across 190 countries and territories, and in the world’s toughest places, we work to help children survive, defend their rights, keep them protected, healthy and educated, and give them a fair chance to fulfill their potential.

Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN agencies warn

Countries must recommit to ending deaths in childbirth amid major headwinds

A mother with newborn getting doctor's assessment in Pakistan

HELP CHILDREN AFFECTED BY THE CONFLICT IN SUDAN

Help reach millions of children affected by the escalating conflict in Sudan.

A member of a Mother Support Group in Sudan screens 9-month-old Fatuma for malnutrition while she is held by her mother.

Number of children in need of humanitarian assistance in Sudan doubles as conflict enters third year amid ‘perfect storm’ of threats to children

15 million children in need as violence, hunger, and disease increase, and growing constraints on access and funding compound challenges

Children walk back home from a UNICEF-supported child friendly space in Al Houri internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp in Gedaref State.

A child reported raped every half an hour in eastern DRC, as violence rages amid a growing funding crisis

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva