Ambulances @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM

This can determine whether a life is saved or lost

  In the remote mountains of northern Afghanistan, a pregnant woman goes into labor. Complications arise. The nearest medical center is hours away — past steep, unforgiving terrain. Every two hours, this is exactly how a woman dies in Afghanistan, wanting for transportation, skille…

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  Ukraine Alert @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM

Iryna's Story

UNFPA has deployed 106 mobile teams across Ukraine that have provided services to nearly 100,000 people.   Winter has arrived in Ukraine — and with it, daily blackouts and temperatures already below freezing. For 60-year-old Iryna, displaced from Donetsk, the winter brought a despe…

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  Winter Dignity Kits @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM

Your $15 doubled to provide two Dignity Kits

Make a gift now, and you will provide two times the lifesaving support so women and girls have a fighting chance at survival this winter.   Over the weekend, supporters like you jumped into action to help supply 2,500 Winter Dignity Kits to women and girls in crisis around the world…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM

These lifelines come from you

  Maryam sat in the rain with her children, everything they owned soaked through. No tent. No shelter. No way to keep warm. "Five members of my family were killed," she said. "We have nothing to eat. My children are sitting with me and we have nothing." When a massive earthquake s…

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  UNFPA Winter Dignity Kits · [email protected]

December 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM

Help meet our 2,500 Winter Dignity Kit Goal

This winter will be brutal but supporters like you can provide for those in need and save lives.   Winter is coming, and for many women and girls who have nothing to carry them through, a UNFPA Winter Dignity Kit may be the only humanitarian relief they get this year. In regions w…

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  Gaza Alert @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM

UPDATE: Al-Shifa Hospital

Al-Shifa Hospital once stood as one of Gaza's largest maternity hospitals. Today, it’s barely recognizable.   Al-Shifa Hospital once stood as one of Gaza's largest maternity hospitals — a beacon of hope for expectant mothers throughout the Gaza Strip. Today, it’s barely recognizabl…

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  Winter Update @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM

In Afghanistan, your support goes twice as far.

  “We have nothing to eat, no tent. We spent the night in the rain and everything got wet. My children are sitting with me and we have nothing,” Maryam, shared with news outlet Amu TV. As temperatures fall in Afghanistan, cold rain and freezing nights have become life-threatening. …

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  Anu Surendran, CEO · [email protected]

December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM

Our work is fragile

  "Sometimes I lose hope myself and feel that death is near,” Zainab, a mother of 6, shared with our teams in Yemen. She has been displaced multiple times and is the sole caretaker of her family. Most nights, her children go to bed hungry, uncertain when food will come again. 9.6 m…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM

"Midwives are the heart of maternal health”

Postpartum hemorrhage, severe bleeding after childbirth, is the leading cause of maternal death around the world.   Every second matters when a mother is bleeding after childbirth. In Kampala, Uganda’s busiest maternity ward, a healthcare team moved so expertly that a new mother we…

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  Sudan @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM

20 million hungry

Everyone in Sudan is surviving armed conflict, but it’s women and girls who overwhelmingly face sexual violence and exploitation.   Content warning: This email contains descriptions of sexual assault. Please read with care. “They killed my husband in front of me. He could only affor…

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  Ukraine Alert @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM

Millions of women and girls are at risk of sexual exploitation

As temperatures plummet, we need your help to reach women, girls, and newborns in Ukraine.   Families in Ukraine are bracing for their fourth winter in war and we need your help to reach women and girls before the cold sets in. Will you rush a gift today to provide lifesav…

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  Humanitarian Response Team @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM

When disaster strikes, healthcare collapses

When disaster strikes, healthcare often collapses — and women and girls are the first to suffer.   This week, three cyclones struck South and Southeast Asia simultaneously, bringing torrential rains that triggered deadly flooding and landslides. Indonesia is among the hardest hit …

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  Anu Surendran, CEO @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM

Good news

You have another chance!   Hi, I have a bit of good news. Some of you reached out asking for one more chance to participate, so we're extending our 2X match through tonight. If you've been meaning to make a gift but haven't yet, now's your moment to double your impact. Every dollar…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Giving Tuesday Appeal: 2,025 Dignity Kits

Winter Dignity Kits are adapted for the colder seasons and include items like warm clothes and blankets.   Dignity Kits are a crucial facet of UNFPA's lifesaving resources. That's why, as part of our 2025 Giving Tuesday match, we hope to collect enough donations to assemble and deli…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM

FGM is an extreme violation of girls’ bodies and rights

As temperatures plummet, our work in Ukraine grows more and more vital for women, girls, and newborns.   It’s time we talk about the horrific practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). Asha, a local circumciser, with her granddaughter, who is due to be cut. FGM is an extreme vio…

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  Haiti Alert @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM

“I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I was stressed. I couldn't go out at all.”

Sexual violence is surging in Haiti, but our critical response efforts are just 8% funded, and too many survivors are being stranded without care.   "Before, I was a friendly, cheerful person, open to everyone, I didn't have a problem with anyone. Afterwards, I became a closed perso…

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  Giving Tuesday @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM

“Where will I live with my children now?”

90% of Gaza’s 2 million population are displaced and living in overcrowded tents and makeshift shelters.   GIVING TUESDAY 2X MATCH UNLOCKED: Your gift to women and girls doubled until 12/2. MAKE A 2X-MATCHED GIFT NOW   Amal holds her one-day old son, Mohamme…

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  UNFPA Dignity Kits · [email protected]

November 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM

You can be a champion of women and girls

It costs just $15 to double your impact and provide women and girls with dignity.   As a champion of women and girls, support from donors like you delivers UNFPA Dignity Kits to women and girls like Su, so they can care for themselves and manage their periods with dignity. Young …

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  Anu Surendran · [email protected]

November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Be there for women and girls in Gaza this Thanksgiving

  Friend — As many families come together for the Thanksgiving holidays today, I am thinking about those who have nothing this holiday season.  I’m thinking about all those displaced in Gaza, who cannot access healthcare, food, or clean water.  I’m thinking of those women and girls…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM

12 Ukrainian cities — where temperatures drop to as low as -4 ℉

Your support has never been more critical.   With another harsh winter approaching and an energy crisis looming in Ukraine, women and girls need your support now more than ever. Childbirth is extremely dangerous, with very limited access to basic health care. Violence against women …

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM

“This is the first time I have received such a package since the day we were displaced,” said one UNFPA Dignity Kit recipient

Your support has never been more critical.   For over two years, people in Gaza have lived each day in terror and grief. The health system is in a state of total collapse and basic necessities such as fuel, water, and food are nearly impossible to obtain. With the unyielding violenc…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM

Be there for babies born prematurely in Ukraine

As temperatures plummet, our work in Ukraine grows more and more vital for women, girls, and newborns.   In Kharkiv — a city in Ukraine living under constant air attacks and shelling threats since the conflict began — obstetricians continue to fight for the lives of their youngest…

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  Sudan Update · [email protected]

November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM

You can deliver double the care to restore hope and rebuild lives.

Your first gift will make twice the impact to rebuild.   When conflict erupted in Sudan in April 2023, it unleashed extensive violence across the country and through the capital, Khartoum. Over two years later, most hospitals in Khartoum are non-operational, severely lacking medica…

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  Yemen · [email protected]

November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM

"We were left with nothing."

This is your chance to make a big impact.   This year in Yemen, over one million people have received lifesaving care because of donors like you. Yemeni women and girls are struggling to survive amid conflict, displacement, and collapsing health systems. That means many give birth w…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

November 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM

Women and girls are reporting more infections in Gaza

Heavy rainfall and winter weather adds misery and suffering.   Winter weather adds misery and suffering in Gaza: Conditions are worsening for people living in Gaza as winter weather sets in including heavy rainfall soaking people in tents.  — NBC DONATE NOW …

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

November 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM

The Emergency Birth Kit ensured Fatema and her baby survived

Midwives provide vital care and support to women and girls, but a well-equipped midwife saves lives.   Fatema is a pregnant 19-year-old woman living in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh — home to the world’s largest refugee camp and over 1 million Rohingya refugees. During her pregnancy, sh…

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  Gaza Ceasefire Update · [email protected]

November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Winter is approaching in Gaza. There’s no time to lose.

The ceasefire agreement offers hope, but winter is coming and the crisis in Gaza is not over.   “I could feel the baby kicking and reacting fearfully to the sound of bombings,” Nour told UNFPA. For many women like Nour, who is pregnant and displaced, the ceasefire in Gaza represents…

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  Sudan: Mothers in Crisis · [email protected]

November 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM

“I can't afford to save both twins”

  Every day, the civil war in Sudan takes more and more from families under siege. Money, livestock, and property are being stolen, along with the health and futures of their children. Two years of conflict has created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 3 million childre…

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  DRC @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

November 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM

“Tears flowed everywhere in the safe space”

  Content Warning: The following includes violence and sexual assault. The women and girls of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are caught in one of the world’s most neglected humanitarian crises — one marked by displacement, safety, health, and nutrition challenges. Amid con…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM

In Gaza, hunger is everywhere

  In Gaza, the ceasefire is holding, but women and girls are still exhausted, starving, and afraid. Mothers are doing everything they can to keep their children alive. Everybody is hungry. For pregnant women and newborns, this is a deadly threat. An estimated 55,000 pregnant and b…

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