Donate to Children in Crisis Fund

The Children in Crisis Fund is our central fund for preparing for and responding to disasters around the world.

Your donation to the Children in Crisis Fund will support our response to disasters that impact the areas we work in, with a focus on protection and care for children.

Current emergencies

A farmer walks through his failed millet crop in Niger, where two million people are in critical need of food and assistance now.

Millions go hungry in West Africa food crisis. Millions of children and their families in West and Central Africa face a growing humanitarian disaster as a food crisis intensifies across the region. More than 13 million people are at risk in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa, including 1 million children at risk of severe malnutrition. Erratic rains and pests and locusts destroyed entire harvests in 2011, leaving families with nothing to eat through this year’s hungry season. This latest food crisis has struck communities who are still trying to recover from the last drought in 2009-10. Plan is responding in Mali, Cameroon, Niger and Burkina Faso. Donate to our Children in Crisis Fund. We are appealing for $5 million to help fight hunger in West Africa.

About the Children in Crisis Fund

When a crisis hits, children are particularly vulnerable. Usually protected by their communities and families, this first line of defence is under stress and needs support. In emergencies, Plan works with communities (in partnership with national governments and other agencies) to ensure they are supported to protect and care for their children in a tense and difficult time.

Plan’s emergency response aims to lessen the impact on the most vulnerable, and to provide long-term, sustainable support with a strong focus on rebuilding and rehabilitation.

Donations to the Children in Crisis Fund will help ensure that our work in emergencies not only helps children and families at the time of the disaster, but also well into the future.

Plan International Australia maintains the Children in Crisis Fund to provide ongoing finances that are used to respond to the needs of children and communities affected by disasters around the world. Plan will at times appeal to the public for funds to go to specific disaster responses. Any funds donated by the public that exceed requirements for specific disaster appeals will be held in the fund for use in responding to other disasters and emergencies affecting children and their communities.

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