For 15 months, children have faced unimaginable suffering in Gaza.
The pause in fighting in Gaza is a first step. A moment of hope.
This agreement makes possible the release of Israeli hostages, including children, and Palestinian children held in Israeli military detention. We hope it’s the first step towards the peace, protection and accountability that children deserve.
There's now a longed-for break in the devastating daily attacks on children. And an opportunity for us to surge in lifesaving food, water and medicines to children and families who have been through 15 months of brutal conflict.
Your generous donation can provide children and families affected by the war in Gaza, as well as other disasters across the world, with life-saving essentials like food, water, and crucial mental health support. It can also help create lasting change through longer term programmes to alleviate poverty and the chronic impact of climate change.
Head to:
Why monthly donations are important
Now, more than ever, children in Gaza and around the world need your help.
Donations during this emergency have allowed us to act fast. But by giving monthly, you can help us be by a child's side within days, whenever disaster strikes.
Your monthly gift will mean that our teams can provide continuous support, offering vital food, healthcare and education to children in urgent need around the world. It also allows us to support children as they move out of survival mode and begin to start living again.
With a monthly donation, you can make a lasting impact on the lives of children in Gaza and around the world.
What's happening in Gaza
The suffering being inflicted on children in Gaza and Lebanon is unfathomable. In 15 months of conflict, 17,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Many more perished from hunger and disease.
Behind these appalling stats are the stories of individual children. They are buried under the rubble, cut off from their families, alone and afraid. The survivors face constant hunger and horrific violence. Many are stricken by terror and grief.
Even with a pause in the fighting, the nightmare isn't over for children.
Because right now, Gaza is on the brink of famine. Malnutrition and disease threaten children’s survival. They urgently need food, shelter and medicines.
Your donation will help vulnerable children wherever the need is greatest.
What we're doing to help children
Our incredible supporters have not let the world forget Gaza’s children – giving what they can and speaking out for a ceasefire. With their support, Save the Children has been able to reach more than 688,300 people in Gaza.
We’re scaling up our response, getting lifesaving supplies in place and ready to go. As soon as we can get more aid into Gaza, we’ll help children take the first steps on the road to recovery.
Working with local partner organisations, we’ll:
- provide families with water, food, hygiene products, mattresses, blankets, toys, and learning materials
- set up primary healthcare centres, classrooms, and safe spaces for children
- deliver clean water, install toilets, and promote hygiene to prevent deadly diseases like cholera
Save the Children staff in Egypt prepare supplies for Gaza
With your support, we’ll be there for many more children, for as long as they need us, so they can start to recover and see beyond tomorrow.
Your donation will help vulnerable children wherever the need is greatest.
We're here for the long haul
Right now, we’re delivering lifesaving food, water and medicine to children and families, and will scale up as soon as we can get more aid in.
We’ll set up temporary learning centres and safe spaces for children to play and be children again. We’ll provide individual and group counselling to children subjected to months of terrifying violence. And we stand ready to help rebuild Gaza’s shattered education system.
Today, the future for Gaza’s children hangs in the balance. It’s a moment of hope, but also one of peril.
No matter what, we’ll be there for Gaza’s children.
With your support, we’ll deliver lifesaving support for as long as it’s needed.
By donating, you can make sure Save the Children is exactly where we need to be to stand with children in crisis and to create lasting change.
Your donation will help vulnerable children wherever the need is greatest.
Meet Baby Lana
When Tima* found out she was pregnant in July 2023, she was excited to be having her second child and started to think about how she would spoil her new baby.
Then in October 2023, the war in Gaza started and everything changed. Tima and her family were displaced multiple times as fighting expanded across the Gaza strip. They now live in a tent in central Gaza.
Tima was very worried about where she would give birth safely, given the continuous attacks on healthcare facilities during the war.
Save the Children’s Emergency Health Unit have set up a maternity unit in the Gaza Strip. Baby Lana* arrived on 26 April 2024 and was the first baby to be born at the new maternity unit.
Although baby Lana was healthy when she left the hospital, after three days she became unwell. Tima was quick to bring her daughter back to the hospital where she was admitted. Lana had contracted sepsis due to the tough living conditions, including very limited access to clean water and washing facilities.
If left untreated, sepsis can easily kill a baby. However, thanks to Tima’s quick actions, a course of antibiotics and close monitoring in the inpatient facility, baby Lana has made a full recovery.
* Names changed to protect their identity
