[link removed] [[link removed]]
Across the Arab States region, women, mothers, girls, newborns, and families are facing overwhelming challenges amid multiple humanitarian crises. From Lebanon to Gaza to Syria, the most basic rights of women and girls are vanishing.

Drastic funding cuts to humanitarian aid have resulted in fewer midwives, unsafe and deadly childbirths, healthcare facility closures, and increased violence — all contributing to the collapse of essential care for an untold millions of people.

Immediate support is needed, but recent funding cuts have cast a dark shadow over the women and girls in the Arab States region. You can be there for them in their darkest moments. Please, make a lifesaving gift today: [[link removed]?]

MAKE A LIFESAVING GIFT [[link removed]?]

In Lebanon , hostilities have taken a heavy toll on women and girls. Homes and lives have been lost. Access to lifesaving maternal healthcare and medicines is scarce. Despite these challenges, UNFPA has continued to work with partners to deploy mobile medical units with each including a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, paramedic, midwife, and sometimes a pediatrician. We’ve also continued to distribute essential care items, like Dignity Kits with menstruation supplies.

“This is my second visit to the clinic to change the bandage on my wound. They have all I need here; I do not have to go to a hospital to do it,” said Diala , a UNFPA mobile clinic patient.

[link removed]? [[link removed]?]

In Gaza , the humanitarian situation is severe, with women and girls being particularly vulnerable to trauma, loss, and fear. “The word ‘difficult’ does not do it justice,” Zainab , a staff member at a UNFPA-supported safe space and shelter, told us. “Some of the attendees at the center have said that they have forgotten they are even a woman — a human being.”

Itemad , a coordinator at the UNFPA-supported care facility explained, “Women in Gaza are in desperate need of psychological services.” Saadia , a 60-year-old woman said plainly of the pervasive fear that defines life for many women in Gaza, “Nowhere is safe. We are constantly afraid.”

[link removed]? [[link removed]?]

Syria continues to endure the turmoil and hardship brought by years of conflict, with women's rights being all but ignored. Escalating violence and food scarcity has worsened displacement and disrupted vital sexual and reproductive health and violence care. “The people in Syria are destroyed from war,” Maryam , a 21-year-old woman from Homs in western Syria, told UNFPA. “There has been no year that has been okay for us… I feel very scared. My family are having threats made against them daily... We are so exhausted, and we just want to live in peace.”

[link removed]? [[link removed]?]

UNFPA is working every day to deliver care to women and girls in dire need — but funding gaps threaten lifesaving care. Across the Arab States region, our health and protection services, safe spaces, and ability to supply generators, sanitary supplies, and essential provisions are at risk of being severely compromised, leaving countless women, girls, and families without the care they need.

Your contribution provides lifesaving aid and rebuilds lives in Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, and beyond. Please make an emergency gift to help us reach those in urgent need. With your generosity today, you can bring safety and hope to countless women, children, and families. [[link removed]?]

MAKE A LIFESAVING GIFT [[link removed]?]

We condemn the violence in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel, and hope for a sustained humanitarian ceasefire, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages by Hamas, and an end to the violence. The suffering must end and peace must prevail.

Thank you for being there to help the most vulnerable receive the care and compassion they desperately need.

— USA for UNFPA
usaforunfpa.org [[link removed]] | [email protected] [[email protected]] | Privacy Policy [[link removed]]
SENT BY USA FOR UNFPA: THE UN SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AGENCY
What does UNFPA stand for? Find the answer to this question and more in our FAQ. [[link removed]]
This email was sent to [email protected] . If you no longer wish to receive these messages, please unsubscribe [[link removed]] . Or request to receive only our most important emails here. [[link removed]]
USA for UNFPA
605 Third Ave
4th Floor
New York, NY 10158
United States