UNICEF Requires $840 Million to Deliver A package for Child Protection

The Citizen/

UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action for Children appeal helps support the agency’s work as it provides conflict- and disaster-affected children with access to water, sanitation, nutrition, education, health and protection services. .

The conflict in the Sudan is a children’s crisis: 13.6 million children urgently need humanitarian assistance. Six million people, more than half of whom are children, have fled their homes, and the Sudan is now home to the largest child displacement crisis in the world.

The cost of inaction is unacceptably high: more than 700,000 children with severe wasting are at high risk of not surviving without treatment; 1.7 million children under age 1 risk missing life-saving vaccinations to protect them from diseases; a generation of children will miss out on education; and millions will lack safety and psychosocial well-being.

Despite challenges in reaching populations and meeting their needs, UNICEF is staying and delivering for children in the Sudan through a three-pronged strategy: 1) in conflict hotspots – delivering critical and life-saving supplies and services; 2) in states receiving large numbers of displaced persons – providing urgent assistance to displaced and host communities; and 3) across the country – supporting the preservation of systems that deliver basic services.

UNICEF requires $840 million to deliver a package of child protection, education, health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and cash plus interventions to save children’s lives, alleviate their suffering and preserve their dignity.