At least 11 children died from hypothermia in Gaza last winter. For hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children, this winter will be another life-threatening emergency. With the support of people like you, UNICEF teams in Gaza are delivering thousands of warm clothes kits and blankets.

Polio cases are down 99.9% since 1988. A devastating disease, now almost gone. Almost. The last children are the hardest to reach, so UNICEF health workers wade through water, travel by horseback and camel, and go into warzones to find them. 0.1% to go. Together we can reach them. #WorldPolioDay

Five-year-old Aisha is finding her voice again, after a night in Sudan that changed everything. An explosion killed her father and two siblings as she slept, and cost her a leg. She stopped speaking. But with a new prosthetic and specialist care, funded by UNICEF supporters, she’s recovering. 💙

16-year-old Raghad was shot in the back in Gaza. The bullet is lodged between her spine and her lungs. Doctors say she needs surgery. But Gaza’s healthcare system has been decimated. In the last six days alone, at least eight children have been killed and 20 injured. Children must be protected.

Children in Gaza like Jamal spend their days digging through rubbish dumps just to survive. They search daily for anything they can use or sell - but what they want is to go back to school. With your support UNICEF will stay with them until that dream of going back to school is a reality.

A year ago, a ceasefire was announced in Gaza - since then, more than 340 Palestinian children have been killed and hundreds more injured. 800,000 children are living in tents or in bombed-out buildings. 60,000 have lost one or both parents. Children need a real ceasefire now.

UNICEF is deeply saddened by the deaths of at least 33 children and one teacher in a school roof collapse in Peshawar, Pakistan. Our thoughts are with their families and with the whole community. Going to school should never put a child’s life at risk.

More than 8,000 children in Panama need help after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, the worst to hit the country since 1882. Communities are cut off, with families left without safe shelter, water or medical care. UNICEF teams are on the ground helping now. Photos: UNICEF/UNI1018600/AFP

Each year, over 12 million girls are married before the age of 18. That’s one girl every three seconds. Every girl has the right to learn, to decide for herself, and to be heard. We must end this practice - we must invest in girls’ rights now.

For some children, school is a tent in a disaster zone. These girls are among 14,000 children whose schooling was disrupted by the floods in Nepal. They’re now learning at a UNICEF temporary learning centre. With your support, we’ll keep children in class, whatever the circumstances.

Applications are now open for the Taoiseach Takeover. 🌍 It's your chance to sit down with the Taoiseach, one-to-one, and advocate for a change you want to see. Got something to say? Apply now. 💙 unicef.ie/taoiseach

Imagine a child sleeping in wet clothes on a cold night, with nothing between them and sewage-filled flood water but a flimsy tent. That's childhood in Gaza this winter. UNICEF is urgently preparing winter kits for more than 500,000 Palestinian children - coats, boots, gloves, hats and pyjamas.

"We can't study in school buildings but, in the basement, we don't hear the explosions." Thousands of children in Ukraine are forced to go to school in underground shelters due to the war. Every child deserves a safe place to learn, play and grow up.

“Children at risk today need more than our words alone.” Speaking in New York last week, Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced €96 million will be provided through UNICEF, World Health Organisation and Concern to combat child malnutrition in Africa. We thank the Irish Government for their support.

Seven children are killed or injured every day in Lebanon on average. Since March: at least 261 children killed, and more than 1,000 injured. Those who survive go to bed hungry and miss out on healthcare and school. Children must be protected. Their rights must be upheld.

After three long, painful years, more than 500,000 Palestinian children in Gaza are finally going back to formal, in-person class! Rahaf, 10, is one of them. "I want to make new friends. I love learning at school," she says. Every child in Gaza deserves to be back in class.

UNICEF Ireland is in New York this week at the United Nations General Assembly. Our Executive Director, Peter Power, and Head of Media & Communications, Vivienne Parry, are pictured with CRH’s Lauren Schulz at a community reception in honour of Minister Helen McEntee, hosted by the Consul General.

"I thought I would never see my children again." For seven days, 9-year-old twins Makka and Medina walked alone through war in Sudan. Today, they're back with their mum. UNICEF's family tracing programme is helping more children like them find their way home.

Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where secondary and higher education is effectively closed to women and girls. UNICEF calls on the de facto authorities to lift the restrictions and allow all girls and women to return to schools and universities immediately.

For Sewar, there is no ceasefire in Gaza. She was shot in the thigh walking home from her grandfather's house. Now she watches her friends play without her. "What did this child do to deserve this?" her mum asks. UNICEF is in Gaza now helping children like Sewar - thanks to our supporters.

"We should help others and take them in." That's the message from young people who spoke this week at "The European Union and Enhancing Protection for Children in Crisis" event. UNICEF Ireland was proud to co-host with Plan International Ireland, Save the Children and World Vision Ireland.

UNICEF is deeply concerned by the deadly fire that claimed the lives of at least 26 children and injured 25 others in Democratic Republic of Congo. The injured children are currently receiving medical care. But many more need mental health support. UNICEF is working to help them now.

UNICEF calls for the protection of all Palestinian children - and their access to learning. The thousands of Palestinian children returning to school this week across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, have the right to education without fear, violence, or obstruction.

What do your taxes achieve through international aid? They help save lives like Willane and Winot's. The twins were born in Madagascar after a cyclone and received immediate support. Irish Aid funding for UNICEF is making help like this possible. Aid saves lives. You are saving lives. Thank you.

In Palestine, Sudan, Ukraine and too many more places to name, education is under attack. Schools should be safe havens. Instead, they are being bombed and destroyed - with children inside. On this International Day to Protect Education from Attack, let's keep children safe as they learn.

Panchito the parrot has an important job: he's nine-year-old Derwimar's closest friend and one of the few pieces of her home that survived the earthquake in Venezuela. Thanks to UNICEF supporters, we are still in Venezuela helping children like Derwimar and the companions who help them through. 🦜

Adriel can see the board now. And Kimberly can hear her teacher. 📚🥰 Thanks to UNICEF supporters, Adriel, 6, in Cameroon - who has albinism - has new prescription lenses. And Kimberly has a hearing aid. When barriers to learning are removed, every child can thrive.

Around 20 million children have experienced tech-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse, a UNICEF report has found. More than half of abuse occurred on mainstream social media platforms - like this one. We cannot look away. Digital platforms must be safer.

"Soldiers used to come into our neighbourhood and open fire. One day, they killed my father." - Lina, 9 In Palestine's West Bank, UNICEF-supported programmes are giving children like Lina a safe space to learn amid rising settler and military violence.

What is the world saving by making historic aid cuts? And what is it losing? Saving: a tiny fraction of a percentage of GDP. Losing: the lives of children. The world can afford to protect children. It's choosing not to.