Afghanistan Earthquake Emergency: Children Need Us Now
by Australian Committee For UNICEF Limited
A devastating 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on 31 August 2025, killing over 800 people, and injuring thousands, with these figures expected to rise. Entire villages have been flattened, homes destroyed, and families left without shelter, food, or clean water.
Before the earthquake, Afghanistan was already facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, grappling with the consequences of four decades of conflict, entrenched poverty, climate-driven disasters, and severe restrictions on girls’ and women’s rights and participation in public life.
• 12 million children need assistance
• 857,000 children under five are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition
• 8 in 10 people in Afghanistan are drinking unsafe water
• 1.4 million girls have been prohibited from attending secondary school
UNICEF has been on the ground in Afghanistan since 1949, delivering life-saving support:
• Emergency health care and nutrition
• Safe water and sanitation
• Education and psychosocial support for children
• Advocating for women and girls
Your workplace gift can save lives:
• $30 could help provide 25,000 litres of water clean drinking water.
• $49 can help provide a first aid kit, which could help treat a range of injuries.
• $100 can help treat a severely malnourished child
• $136 could help provide emergency aid kits for two families.
• $265 could help provide treatment to help save the lives of four children suffering from severe malnutrition.
Donate to UNICEF today and help children of Afghanistan survive.
