HELP CHILDREN AFFECTED BY EARTHQUAKE

The lives of thousands of children are at risk from devastating earthquakes in southeast Türkiye.

After the earthquakes in Southeast Anatolia, children have lost their homes, some of them have lost their families. The need for shelter, food, clothing, hygienic materials and psychosocial support is grave. UNICEF, a pioneer and expert in emergency humanitarian aid, which currently carries out a multifaceted program with public and civil society partners in southeast Türkiye to help disadvantaged children reach quality education, knows the region well. Please support us in delivering humanitarian aid to children affected by this disaster. 

How will UNICEF help?

UNICEF is working around the clock since the first day of the earthquake. UNICEF's response focuses on protecting children, providing emergency psycho-social support, activating child-friendly spaces and temporary learning spaces, supporting water mains and related services, as well as health and nutritional needs.

► UNICEF ensured the evacuation of children living in kindergartens in affected areas to safe areas. UNICEF, together with the Ministry of Family and Social Services (MFSS), supports the identification of Unaccompanied and Separated Children and directs them for necessary follow-up. UNICEF has launched a legal empowerment program to support affected children and families access to their rights, justice and legal support.

► UNICEF delivers critical supplies to the region, including hygiene kits and non-food items such as winter clothing, electric heaters and blankets that children and families need so much. UNICEF supports repairs to water mains, delivers safe water with water trucking, supports installment of toilet and shower units, including disabled-friendly ones at temporary accommodation centers.

► UNICEF-trained social workers and civil society partners working in the region provide psychosocial support to children day and night at service points, tents, camps, schools or wherever they live. UNICEF continues to provide support to increase the number of social workers deployed in the region.

► UNICEF is establishing child and family friendly centers in coordination with MoFSS. As of May 10, 47 child-adolescent-family support centers became operational. UNICEF aims to rapidly increase the access of children and families to psychosocial support, and to activate 200 Child-Family Support Centers and 80 Youth Spaces (adolescent-youth skill development). 

► Approximately 5,000 young volunteers, led by the Ministry of Youth and Sports and trained by UNICEF, provide support to more than 160,000 people in temporary accommodation centres.

► UNICEF supports the Turkish Government's plans to set up school tents and prefabricated classrooms where schools are no longer usable. UNICEF provided the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) with 87 tents to be used as temporary education centers and schools. Cash transfer is provided to support the MoNE for 500 tents that will be used as temporary learning spaces for approximately 40,000 students. A cash transfer will also be provided to the MoNE for minor repairs and teaching materials for 1,179 schools, including approximately 300,000 children, 900 of which are located in the provinces affected by the earthquake.

► UNICEF plans work on children's health and nutrition in temporary accommodation centers with the Ministry of Health and other partners.

► UNICEF and MFSS are planning a cash transfer program for 500,000 households with children affected by the earthquake.

Please donate now.

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