A Ukraine Lifeline @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

January 21, 2026 at 3:05 PM

Restore dignity to women and girls enduring the bitter cold winter.

You have the power to deliver hope, healthcare, and essential supplies to women and girls in Ukraine as they endure another brutal winter.   URGENT: 2025 was the deadliest year for civilians in Ukraine since 2022 with 2,514 civilian deaths and a 31% rise in the number of vi…

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  Gaza Emergency Update · [email protected]

January 18, 2026 at 2:01 PM

One year ago

This January, despite the ceasefire, Gaza remains in crisis.   FIRST: One year ago, a temporary ceasefire in Gaza was reached in the height of winter. After 500 days of conflict, 45,000+ people had been killed. Over 100,000 people were injured. The healthcare system in Gaza was dec…

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  Gaza Midwives @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

January 17, 2026 at 6:05 PM

Gaza midwife: “Every woman deserves a safe delivery”

  When Rana, who lives in Gaza, learned she was pregnant, her joy was quickly overshadowed by fear. “I thought I would have to give birth in a tent,” she recalled. “As my due date approached, I was terrified. I didn’t know how I could bring a child into this world under these condi…

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  USA for UNFPA​ · [email protected]

January 16, 2026 at 8:04 PM

Sudan: World’s largest humanitarian emergency

For nearly two months, the city of El Fasher has been cut off from the outside world.   “In El Fasher, I couldn’t have any health check-ups because there were no hospitals left near us,” said Zainab, 26, who was pregnant when describing a brutal siege that lasted 18 months in the ca…

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  USA for UNFPA​ · [email protected]

January 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM

Cash and voucher assistance

Cash and voucher assistance helps women and girls overcome the financial barriers to accessing lifesaving sexual and reproductive health services during humanitarian emergencies.   “This help was life-saving for me — I bought clothes for myself and my child, shoes, food, and buildin…

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  USA for UNFPA​ · [email protected]

January 14, 2026 at 7:04 PM

Healthcare workforce and funding shortages threaten our work

Women and girls are often forgotten in widescale pushes for health and safety.   When humanitarian aid is cut, women and girls lose access to essential health services like those provided by UNFPA. As violence intensifies in places like Palestine, Afghanistan, and Yemen, healthcar…

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  USA for UNFPA​ · [email protected]

January 13, 2026 at 9:06 PM

Gebeyanesh had to create makeshift pads out of strips of clothing, risking infection.

Each kit costs only $15 to create and your gift today can reach women and girls facing unimaginable hardship.   Gebeyanesh had her first period at 14 — a moment that should have been a quiet rite of passage in her Ethiopian village, marked by her mother’s care and a family celebrat…

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  Gaza Winter Update @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

January 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM

Only a flimsy tent to call home

  Nightmarish conditions are taking hold in Gaza as the region is plunged deeper into a cruel winter. Rafah was injured while fleeing her home. She and her family live in a tent in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis. Displaced families are forced to live in flimsy tents in refugee cam…

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  Ukraine Alert @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

January 9, 2026 at 3:16 PM

We can’t scale back at a time like this

  New reporting out of Ukraine sheds light on the life-threatening conditions facing health workers and the women and girls they care for. Giving birth under air raid sirens is now a nightmarish reality for mothers across the war-torn region. Anastasiia was evacuated to Kharkiv to …

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

January 8, 2026 at 11:04 PM

We have $1 billion to go

UNFPA is a primary source of maternal healthcare in crisis regions — our funding shortfall puts care for millions of women in jeopardy.   In regions destabilized and destroyed by conflict and climate emergencies, over 117 million people remain forcibly displaced. The medical facili…

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  Gaza Emergency · [email protected]

January 7, 2026 at 3:36 PM

1.9 million displaced: “Everyone is cramped here."

This January, despite the ceasefire, Gaza remains in crisis.   “Everyone is cramped here. The population here not just doubled but tripled in many of the neighborhoods, given the fact that none of these people is [sic] able to go back to their neighborhoods. We’re talking about Zeit…

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  Sudan Update @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

January 6, 2026 at 11:04 PM

Fatma has provided care at Kosti Maternity Hospital since 1974.

UNFPA has deployed mobile health clinics and midwives across Sudan — but the scale of needs increases as our resources dwindle.   Sudan’s civil war, now in its third year, has become an unrelenting nightmare for millions of people. Tens of thousands are reported to have perished in…

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  Yemen Alert @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

January 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM

“I felt something I had not felt in a long time — safety.”

You can help women and girls reclaim their lives after abuse and make decisions for their bodies and futures.   Women with UNFPA Dignity Kits inside a displacement camp in Yemen. 4.5 million people are internally displaced in Yemen due to the ongoing conflict and climate disasters …

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

January 2, 2026 at 4:05 PM

No woman should die as she gives life.

UNFPA ensures mothers can have a safe delivery by providing them with Emergency Birth Kits.   Too many pregnant women are forced to give birth in the face of war, violence, disaster, and uncertainty. Humanitarian disasters leave many homeless or separated from their family and suppo…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

January 1, 2026 at 12:02 AM

Last day to double your impact this winter

Help deliver hygiene, warmth, and lifesaving care before winter intensifies.   We’re down to the final hours of 2025. This is your last chance to deliver double the lifesaving care for women and girls enduring winter in Ukraine, Gaza, and other crisis zones. Your gift means everythi…

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  Dignity Kit Goal @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM

Your donation will be matched

This is your final chance of 2025 to help supply Winter Dignity Kits to women and girls.   In Gaza, displaced women and girls are preparing for another dangerously frigid and wet season. Women and girls in Gaza who have survived violence, famine, and loss are now facing the most bit…

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  Ukraine Winter @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM

"a feeling that someone remembers and cares about us at a time like this.”

  2X MATCH FINAL DAY: Families in Ukraine are surviving their fourth winter of war amidst freezing temperatures, blackouts, and constant shelling. Women and girls are among the most at risk, and we urgently need your help to reach them now. RUSH MY 2X-MATCHED GIFT …

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  Gaza Update @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM

Winter in Gaza

   57,000 households in Gaza are led by women. Shouldering the responsibility of entire families, they are struggling to protect their loved ones from hunger, cold, and violence this winter. Will you give the gift of hope this holiday season by making a gift to deliver lif…

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  Gaza Alert @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM

57,000 women-led households face hardship in Gaza

   57,000 households in Gaza are led by women. Shouldering the responsibility of entire families, they are struggling to protect their loved ones from hunger, cold, and violence this winter. Will you give the gift of hope this holiday season by making a gift to deliver lif…

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  Ukraine Winter Alert @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM

2X impact for women and girls across Ukraine and in crisis zones around the world

  Since October, two UNFPA-supported maternity hospitals in Ukraine have been damaged by attacks, putting pregnant women and newborns at risk. As families brace for their fourth winter of war, ongoing violence, stress, and displacement are compounding the dangers expectant mothers …

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  Haiti Update @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM

Every month, 50,000 women and girls in Haiti are without access to sexual and reproductive health services

  ALERT: More than 1.5 million women and girls in Haiti need urgent support as gang violence escalates. Yet after the United States cut crucial funding earlier this year, Haiti remains one of the most underfunded humanitarian crises in the world. Will you rush a gift today …

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  Dignity Kit Goal @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM

Will you donate now to deliver Winter Dignity Kits?

  Women and girls who have survived violence, displacement, and loss are now facing another challenge: winter. Many are sleeping in makeshift shelters or out in the open. Water is scarce, waste piles up, and families have gone months without changing clothes or basic supplies. Pre…

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  Gaza Winter · [email protected]

December 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM

Children are dying from exposure. Women are giving birth in tents.

Past support has reached 51,000 women and girls in Gaza   “I never thought I would give birth living in a tent, in such cold and freezing conditions, with water dripping on us,” Nariman said to the BBC. Her newborn daughter, baby Sila, died from hypothermia just weeks after being bo…

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  UNFPA Winter Dignity Kits · [email protected]

December 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM

Can you make your matched gift today?

We have a lot of ground to cover to raise enough to reach our year-end goal.   Every gift made to emails like this will be matched until the end of the year. You can make an incredible impact on the lives of women and girls, and for a few more days, that impact will be doubled. Your…

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  Afghanistan Winter Update · [email protected]

December 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM

Can you support midwives today?

  Fatima, like 74% of Afghanistan’s population, lives in a remote area with little access to prenatal care and maternal health services. This support is even harder for women to access because of the severe restrictions they live under. She had successfully given birth at home thre…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Over 1 million Rohingya refugees

  Across the world, displacement, war, and sexual violence strip girls of their futures. Your gift today can make their futures bright by operating UNFPA Safe Spaces that provide support, education, and opportunities to girls everywhere. Will you make a 2X-matched gift for girls th…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM

Your gift will show women and girls in need that they aren’t alone

  As many families around the world celebrate the holidays and enjoy the comforts of a warm home, today I am thinking about those who have nothing this holiday season. I’m thinking about women living through their fourth year of war in Ukraine, who have to give birth underground wi…

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  USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM

You can double your impact right now. Learn More:

  Hello — did you see Anu’s message? Every donation you make to the women and girls will be matched until the end of the year. That’s double the Winter Dignity Kits for girls in Gaza so they can manage their periods with dignity and keep warm this winter. That’s double the Mama Kit…

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

December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM

We can’t let this opportunity slip away

  Hi there, I’m so appreciative of our donors' generous support this holiday season and throughout the year. Our match has just expanded to $410,000, but that means we have just one week left to mobilize support before it expires. That’s why I’m reaching out. Gifts from supporters …

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  Dignity Kit Goal @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM

You can be the difference between illness and warmth, between dignity and desperation

  Women and girls who have survived violence, displacement, and loss are now facing another challenge: winter. Many are sleeping in makeshift shelters or out in the open. Water is scarce, waste piles up, and families have gone months without changing clothes or basic supplies. Pre…

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  Update on Ukraine via USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM

No woman should have to give birth under fire. No newborn should take their first breath in conflict.

  New reporting paints a grim picture of the conflict in Ukraine: temperatures are dropping, civilian casualties are rising, and funding for humanitarian organizations on the frontlines is dwindling right as winter takes hold. “People can survive without electricity for a time, bu…

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  Winter Alert @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM

Only a flimsy tent protects Fatima’s family from bitter cold

  Fatima was heavily pregnant when a series of violent earthquakes tore through parts of Türkiye and Syria. In an instant, she and her two sons lost everything — including their home. Fatima and her newborn in their temporary tent following the destructive earthquakes in Türkiye a…

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  Haiti Alert @ USA for UNFPA · [email protected]

December 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM

Be there for women and girls living through unimaginable crisis in Haiti

In addition to rampant violence, critical services are scarce.   Reader note: This message contains graphic descriptions of violence. Please read with care. This is devastating: Escalating gang violence in Haiti is driving tens of thousands from their homes, and widespread i…

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  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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