Children's Emergency Fund
Conflict, climate-related disasters, and displacement are turning children’s lives upside down. During and after an emergency, children face a greater risk of violence, sexual exploitation, and hunger – and girls are often the worst affected.
Your support will help children in affected communities get the urgent and lifesaving relief they need including food, water, access to education and vital protection.
Donate to our Children’s Emergency Fund so we can respond rapidly with immediate relief when a crisis hits.
How we respond to emergencies
Last year Plan International responded to over 170 disasters globally. By donating to the Children’s Emergency Fund, your support helps us to respond rapidly reaching children and their families with:
- essentials including water, food, and shelter
- safe spaces for children to recover, process their trauma and play
- access to education
- cash and voucher assistance
- dignity kits for managing periods
- support for long-term community recovery
Help children in climate-related disasters
In November 2020, hurricanes Eta and Iota left a trail of destruction that affected over 1.9 million people in Guatemala, with 300,000 displaced from their homes. Due to the climate crisis, the frequency and intensity of climate-related disasters is increasing.
Thousands of children like Eimy from the Alta Verapaz region were forced to flee their homes and drop out of school after mudslides and widespread flooding buried homes and roads.
We work to respond immediately to crises by providing life-saving essentials such as food, shelter, and economic support to affected communities.
You can play a crucial role in helping us be there for children like Eimy.
Why your support matters
Our response
Supporters of the Children’s Emergency Fund are helping us to reach children and girls in an emergency.
Providing access to clean water: Zimbabwe
Throughout the COVID pandemic we helped repair water points and installed 90 hand washing stations in remote communities across north-eastern Zimbabwe. We also supplied disinfectant kits to 24 schools and ran a public information campaign around hygiene and hand washing to protect against the spread of the virus.
Distributing dignity kits: Tigray
Conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has displaced almost 2 million people. Our Children's Emergency Fund has helped thousands of girls living in camps to access dignity kits. These contain soap, sanitary pads, underwear, and other essential items to help them manage their periods and improve their well-being.
Children’s psychological support: Beirut
The huge explosion in Beirut’s port area on 4 August 2020, caused widespread damage and left children emotionally and psychologically scarred. Our Children’s Emergency Fund supported Beirut’s children by providing psychosocial support. This helped them address the trauma of the explosion and move forward with their lives.
Children’s emergency fund
Help us reach children in an emergency as soon as they need us