Gaza’s children face hunger, trauma, and destroyed homes after months of conflict and violence. Families urgently need food, medicine, and shelter. We’re providing lifesaving aid, mental health support, and safe learning spaces. Learn how you can help can save lives today.
Like many of you, my colleagues and I are relieved to finally see a pause in hostilities in Gaza. A pause in the daily attacks on children, a pause that offers a glimmer of hope.
But after 15 months of relentless war, children in Gaza have had their childhoods shattered - replaced by hunger, fear, and life-changing injuries. For more than 17,818 children who lost their lives, it’s too late. For over a million other children facing destruction and loss, it’s a chance to breathe.
Because the nightmare isn’t over for children.
Families in Gaza urgently need our help to survive and recover. I spoke to one of our colleagues there who told me about the scale of destruction they are now living through:
This pause offers hope, but it will start new types of misery for families. It will open their eyes to their destroyed homes, to the destroyed infrastructure. It will be something like a ghost city.
In Gaza, everything that children need to be happy and healthy has been destroyed.
The urgency now is to support hundreds of thousands of children who have lost their homes and loved ones and are struggling to survive with Gaza on the brink of famine.
We need to support families returning to ruined homes in the cold weather with no running water, to neighbourhoods where vital health and education services have been decimated. We need to support children still battling hunger, malnutrition and disease. We need to protect babies from dying due to the cold winter temperatures. We need to be there for the children who survived the worst of the bombing but are facing an unprecedented mental health crisis.
We are scaling up our work to help children and their families begin to rebuild their lives. We are increasing supplies of medical necessities and lifesaving aid, including food kits, winter clothes and blankets.
As displaced families return to their damaged neighbourhoods, we are making sure they can still reach essential services by creating new primary healthcare centres, child-friendly spaces and temporary learning spaces. We are extending our Mental Health and Psychosocial Support services and ramping up our mental health programming for children who are the most at risk – such as children who have been injured or separated from their families. We are also providing emergency cash to families to help them buy essentials like food, water and other basic supplies.
In shelters where displaced families are living, we are setting up learning spaces so children can still have access to education. We are distributing kits for children which include puzzles, stationery, colouring and story books which allows them to participate in play-based learning.
But we need your help.
Your support makes all this work possible. At this critical moment, we must seize this chance to help Gaza’s children in the next phase of this crisis.
- $10 could provide 10 lifesaving doses of medicine.
- $24 could provide 8 courses of antibiotics to treat pneumonia or infection.
- $80 could allow us to provide a family with a food parcel to feed their children
- $200 can provide a Newborn Baby kit, to help infants keep safe and warm
Our organisation was founded to protect children caught up in conflict, and its aftermath. We want to see a future where families in Gaza can begin to rebuild their lives.
Gaza’s children need your help to survive, now more than ever, because you can help them fight for their futures.
