ALBAWABA - Today, UNICEF announced a US$9.9 billion fundraising campaign to provide life-saving aid to 109 million children in 146 countries by 2025.
The money will be used in UNICEF's humanitarian response to the numerous conflicts, health crises, displacement, and climate shocks that are anticipated to occur in the upcoming year.
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said that "Looking ahead to 2025, we estimate that 213 million children in 146 countries and territories will need humanitarian assistance over the course of the year – a staggeringly high number".
For the past 78 years, UNICEF has been working to fulfill its goal, which is to provide all of these children with the basic services and resources they require while also making sure that their rights are respected and protected.
The US$9.9 billion appeal for 2025 emphasizes how urgent it is to address the widening range of humanitarian issues that children in 146 countries face.
More than 57.5 million children were born in countries where UNICEF has issued an emergency appeal due to conflict or other humanitarian disasters in 2024. In 2025, that number is anticipated to increase by at least 400,000.
Just four crises — Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Syria, and Ukraine — received more than half of UNICEF's theme humanitarian financing last year, which is a small portion of the 412 disasters the organization addressed in 107 countries.
The nations with the worst inadequate funding include Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, and Myanmar.
