Urgent appeal
More than a million children are living without safe water, enough food or anywhere safe to sleep. Our teams are already there. What they need is the means to keep going.
Emergency appeal
$89 — a food kit for one month. Flour, pulses, oil and fortified blends to feed a family of five for a month while markets stay out of reach.
Demonstration only — no payment is taken and no card details are sent anywhere.
Our reach last year
Girls and boys supported directly through our health, education, protection and food programmes last year.
Country programmes run with and through local partners, from megacities to the last mile.
Conflicts, floods, earthquakes, outbreaks and displacement crises we mobilised for.
Laws, budgets and national plans changed in children's favour with our advocacy.
Figures shown are illustrative sample data for this demonstration build and are not audited results. Real reporting would link to the published annual accounts.
Where the need is sharpest
Some of these you will have seen on the news this week. Others stopped being news a long time ago, and the children in them still need everything.
Middle East
Children are surviving on a fraction of the water they need and going hungry in a place where food exists but cannot reach them. Our teams are running mobile health points, treating malnutrition and delivering water by tanker wherever access allows.
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Africa
Escalating conflict in the east has forced families to move repeatedly, often with nothing. We are registering separated children, running safe spaces and treating acute malnutrition in overcrowded sites.
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Asia
Monsoon flooding and landslides swept away homes, schools and harvests. Our response has moved from emergency shelter into getting children back into classrooms and restoring family incomes.
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Latin America
Families crossing borders in search of food and medicine arrive exhausted and in debt. We work along the migration routes with nutrition screening, child protection and cash assistance.
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Africa
Two years of fighting have collapsed health services and pushed communities into famine conditions. We run stabilisation centres for severely malnourished children wherever access can be negotiated.
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Asia
Drought, earthquakes and an economy in freefall have left families unable to afford food or fuel. We deliver cash, cold-weather kits and mobile health care to remote districts before the passes close.
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How we empower children
Health, resilience, education and protection are not separate programmes competing for the same budget. They arrive together in a child's life, so we deliver them together.
11.4M
children treated
Health
We train and equip frontline health workers so that pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and malnutrition are caught early — in the village, not after a day's walk to a hospital that may have no drugs left.
How we work
Two things decide whether a child gets help: whether someone trusted is nearby, and whether anyone with a budget is listening. We work on both.
88p
of every pound goes directly to our work for children
The rest pays for the fundraising and governance that make the first 88p possible. Our full audited breakdown is published every year.
Step 1
We do not fly in when a crisis makes the news. Most of our responses are run by teams who were living and working in that district the week before.
Step 2
National organisations know which families are being missed. We fund them, train alongside them, and hand over programmes rather than holding on to them.
Step 3
Delivering aid treats the symptom. We also take the evidence to parliaments and budget committees so the next crisis is smaller.
Latest news and field stories
Reporting from the people doing the work — plus the research and statements behind our public positions.
Our flagship review of childhood in 2026 finds the number of children living in active conflict areas has risen for the eleventh consecutive year — and sets out ten policy shifts that would reverse it.
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Field assessments from our teams describe families rationing water between drinking, cooking and washing — with children bearing the health consequences first.
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After floods destroyed her school, a twelve-year-old in central Malawi helped her teachers set up a temporary learning space. Six weeks later, attendance was higher than before.
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