Your generous donation can provide children and families affected by aid cuts, as well as other disasters across the world, with life-saving essentials like food, water and crucial mental health support. It can also help create lasting change through longer term programmes to alleviate poverty and the chronic impact of climate change.
Aid cuts are a betrayal of the world’s most vulnerable children
The funding gaps we’re facing could force us to close down programmes that are a lifeline to children.
Cutting aid does not make the world safer. Poverty, conflict, and climate disasters don’t stay contained. They lead to more displaced people, increased instability, and bigger threats to international peace - including for the UK. Slashing aid makes the world less safe.
What has UK aid done?
Three years of full-scale war in Ukraine has shattered children’s lives. UK aid has helped us provide food, medical care, and emergency shelter through local partners.
Communities in Somalia have been hit by conflict and climate change. UK aid is helping set up safe houses to protect women and children fleeing violence and more than 500 doctors and nurses have been trained to support survivors of abuse.
After the devastating earthquake hit Turkiye and Syria, UK aid helped fund tents that were used to provide education facilities to children living in displacement camps in Syria.
Foreign aid cuts are putting children's at risk
HOW Aid helped Cihan* and Hilal*
Ayşe Nur Gençalp / Shelter For Kids Türkiye
When the earthquakes struck Türkiye in February 2023, Tülay*’s world was turned upside down. Tülay* was already facing challenges raising her hearing-impaired children, Hilal* and Cihan*. Then, the earthquakes took their home—and with it, their sense of stability. Without functioning cochlear implants, the siblings were cut off from school, friends, and the world around them.
That’s when Shelter For Kids came to help. We provided essential household items and toys to bring comfort, and helped replace the children’s hearing devices. With their new implants, Hilal* and Cihan* began to reconnect—with their education, their friends, and each other.
Three months on, the change is remarkable. The siblings are back in school, laughing and playing freely. Their mother, Tülay*, feels hopeful again.
“After the earthquake, my kids didn’t go to school because they couldn’t hear or speak,†she says. “Now I can leave my kids to be free. They’re able to play, go out and talk with their friends.â€
The UK government has slashed its budget for overseas aid
This is money that goes to support the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people – including millions of children.
This news comes at a time when 1 in 11 children globally need lifesaving assistance. Children trying to survive hunger, conflict and natural disasters.
They need our help. Donate today.
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