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UNICEF helps children affected by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique

UNICEF helps children affected by disasters around the world. Working with China International Development Cooperation Agency, we delivered crucial aid to children and families affected by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique. Watch the difference this has made, 5 years on.

22 December 2023

First batch of humanitarian supplies for children provided by UNICEF starting to arrive in Jishishan, Gansu Province

Beijing, 22 December 2023 – The first batch of humanitarian supplies for children provided by UNICEF is starting to arrive in Jishishan, Gansu Province which was impacted by the 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the area. The supplies contain 44,500 winter clothes, including coats, pants and sweatshirts for 30,000 young children and adolescents…

16 February 2023

One week on from devastating earthquakes, millions of children remain in need of urgent humanitarian assistance

NEW YORK/AMMAN/GENEVA, 13 February 2023 – Seven days after two devastating earthquakes and more than 1,600 aftershocks hit south-east Türkiye and Syria – causing widespread destruction and taking the lives of thousands of people – UNICEF is warning that millions of children are in need of urgent humanitarian support. While the total number of…

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell's remarks at 2022 Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction

INDONESIA, 23 May 2022 — "The Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction comes at a critical time for children and young people as they face the immediate and long-lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Accelerating poverty rates. School closures and massive learning loss. Millions of children at greater risk of child marriage and child labor.…

Let’s learn to prevent disasters!

This booklet aims to provide the educational community and children with an innovative and interactive tool for risk management. Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions and landslides all these are natural phenomena that have occurred throughout the history of humankind. However, rapid population growth, environmental pollution and…

Summer camp explores a participatory and engaging approach for disaster risk education

Wang Yitong, 10, has been told many times by her mother how they survived the magnitude 8.0 earthquake in Sichuan Province almost a decade ago. Back then, Yitong was around six months old. When the earthquake struck at 2:28 pm on 12 th May 2008, Yitong and her mother were napping in their bedroom in Shifang, a city 70 kilometres from the…

Making Disaster Risk Education Fun

El Niño is over but its impact on children is set to worsen as disease, malnutrition continue to spread

NAIROBI/NEW YORK, July 8, 2016 – The 2015-2016 El Niño has ended but its devastating impact on children is worsening, as hunger, malnutrition and disease continue to increase following the severe droughts and floods spawned by the event, one of the strongest on record, UNICEF said today. And there is a strong chance La Niña – El Niño's flip side…

26 November 2015

Children will bear the brunt of climate change - UNICEF

NEW YORK/GENEVA, 24 November 2015 – More than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence and 160 million in high drought severity zones, leaving them highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, UNICEF said in a unless-we-act-now.pdf report released ahead of the 21st United Nations climate change conference,…

Three months on from first Nepal quake, children still at risk

KATHMANDU, Nepal, 25 July 2015 – Three months after Nepal's April 25 earthquake and its aftershocks, children continue to face multiple risks as their families have been pushed deeper into poverty and they remain in need of aid. Although the humanitarian situation has improved over the past three months, hundreds of thousands of children still…

Children's lives at serious risk if DPR Korea drought continues, UNICEF warns

Bangkok, 8 July 2015 – Children are already suffering as a result of drought in some parts of DPR Korea and many more may be at serious risk of malnutrition and disease if it continues, UNICEF warned today. UNICEF personnel have recently met with local health officials in affected provinces who confirm reports of significant increases in…

Disaster Risk Reduction

By the end of the 1990s, climate-change related disasters affected about 66 million children per year. In the coming decades, this number is expected to triple, to 200 million children annually. Sadly we can expect to see more child deaths caused by disasters. More children will face great physical and psychological peril. More will not be able to…