Coronavirus: Children's Emergency Appeal

Coronavirus:

Children's Emergency Appeal

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Coronavirus is becoming the greatest health crisis in recent history.

With your help, our planned response will help save lives in 50,000 communities across 50 countries.

Severe food shortages are already ravaging regions experiencing persistent drought.

By the end of this year, 12,000 people a day could be dying of hunger caused by the pandemic.

In refugee camps around the world death rates could be devastatingly high,

while South Sudan has just 189 doctors in the whole country: one doctor for 65,000 people.

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A single donation of £25

could feed 10 families for a week by providing basic food items

A single donation of £76

could provide 3 families with hygiene items for a month to help prevent the spread of the virus

A single donation of £130

could install two hand washing facilities in a refugee camp providing lifesaving clean water

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Right now, there is growing concern for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable children as coronavirus continues to spread globally. For those already in desperate situations the challenge couldn’t be greater. We’re particularly concerned for those in crowded refugee camps, without access to soap and running water and where social distancing isn’t an option.

If we don’t act fast, the death rate in places like this could be devastatingly high and thousands of children could be orphaned. Our experience shows that girls are often worst affected during health crises, facing increased threats of sexual violence, meaning we have to scale up our child protection services. It’s also vital that we provide food for those in need.

We launched our rapid response as the UK entered lockdown and have been working with the other 13 charities of the Disasters Emergency Committee on a far-reaching response. But as our fears are realised for the world's most vulnerable children, we still urgently need your help to stop the spread of the virus. We’re immensely grateful for any support you can give.

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HOW YOU'LL HELP SAVE LIVES

Your support will go towards

Providing children and their families
with clean water, soap and information on keeping themselves safe.

Photo of a boy eating — Providing children and their families
with clean water, soap and information on keeping themselves safe.

In the unlikely event that we raise more money than can be reasonably and efficiently spent for this appeal, any additional funds will be spent wherever the need is greatest.

Photo of a girl carrying water — A girl carries water home in Cox’s Bazar

Why Vulnerable Children are at risk

Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh is home to 1.2 million people, including almost 860,000 Rohingya refugees. Children and their families are settled in tents, with over 40,000 people per square kilometer – more than 40 times the average population density for Bangladesh.

One of the daily realities in the camps in Bangladesh is that women and children go to collect water. They’re going to joint areas, so the possibility for social distancing just doesn’t exist.

To deal with the recent outbreak of coronavirus in Cox’s Bazar, Plan International are distributing hand washing kits, ramping up child protection work and providing information sessions on coronavirus.

Photo of a girl washing her hands — Our work in sponsor communities, like this one in Nepal, includes installing essential infrastructure and access to water sources

Committed to Child Sponsorship

Our child sponsorship programme is more important than ever right now. We urgently need more sponsors to help fund projects that will help children to reach their potential during this difficult time and into the future.

To find out more about becoming a sponsor visit our child sponsorship page >

If you’re already one of our amazing sponsors, our coronavirus FAQs for sponsors can be found here >

We’re closely monitoring the situation to ensure we can respond if sponsored children are impacted by the virus. If a sponsored child has been affected, we will share any information we can with their sponsor.

Coronavirus Children's Emergency Appeal