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When crisis unfolds, women and girls can’t wait.
This holiday season, your gift can help women-led organisations provide life-saving care, protection and support in emergencies.
The emergency behind the headlines
Crises are becoming more frequent — and women and girls bear the greatest burden. They face heightened risks of sexual violence, preventable pregnancy-related deaths, and malnutrition.
At the same time, humanitarian funding is being cut. Essential services are closing just as needs escalate.
UN Women works directly with women-led organisations — trusted local groups who understand their communities and can respond quickly and effectively. But many are struggling to survive.
90% have already been affected by funding cuts.
More than half have had to suspend critical services for women and girls.
The Women’s Emergency Fund provides urgent, flexible funding to women-led organisations responding in crisis settings.
It helps keep vital services running — from protection and psychosocial care to healthcare, livelihoods and support for survivors of gender-based violence.
Your support ensures women-led organisations can continue reaching women and girls when they are needed most.
Two meaningful ways to give
1. Donate directly to the Women’s Emergency Fund
Help UN Women respond to urgent crises — with the flexibility to deliver exactly what women and girls need most.
2. Give on behalf of someone else — and send a festive certificate
Donate in someone’s honour and send them a beautiful festive certificate celebrating a life-changing act of kindness.
The Women’s Emergency Fund provides urgent, flexible funding to women-led organisations responding in crisis settings.
In Sudan, 7.5 million women need humanitarian assistance. That’s equivalent to the entire population of the North-West of England.
Women and girls are paying a devastating price. Demand for life-saving support following rape and sexual violence has risen by 288%, while access to food, healthcare and safety continues to shrink.
Women-led organisations are at the heart of the response — identifying urgent needs in displacement camps, supporting survivors of violence, providing psychosocial care and helping women rebuild livelihoods. They work within their own communities to reach those most at risk.
Yet these organisations receive less than 2% of humanitarian funding.
As UN Women’s Regional Director Anna Mutavati shared after visiting displacement sites in Sudan:
“These numbers don’t capture the pain and fear I hear in the stories of women I have met in displacement camps and protection centres in Port Sudan. [...]
The testimonies of women survivors of sexual violence will remain with me forever. How their bodies became battlegrounds, as there are strong indications of gender-based violence being used as a weapon of war.”
This holiday season, you can help keep women-led lifelines open.
This holiday season, your donation helps ensure women and girls can access protection, care and support — delivered by women-led organisations who know their communities and stand with them through crisis.
1. Donate directly to the Women’s Emergency Fund
Support urgent, flexible funding for women-led organisations responding to emergencies.
2. Give on behalf of someone else — and send a festive certificate
Share the season’s generosity with a gift that supports women when it matters most.