Storm Daniel which made landfall in Libya on 10 September 2023, has caused massive destruction, leaving towns completely ruined, roads damaged, and homes swept away. As search and rescue operations continue, over 6,000 confirmed deaths, and hundreds are missing. At least 40,000 people have been internally displaced seeking shelter in schools, relatives, and public facilities.
The image of the neighborhood's USV cars upside down demonstrates just how severely the city was flooded. © UNICEF/UNI435918/Alturki
Children and families in Libya need our help now more than ever. Many are left with nothing but the clothes they wore. Moreover, they are now faced with another threat - the aftermath of floods, which is often even more deadly for children due to disease outbreaks such as diarrhea and cholera, lack of safe drinking water, and malnutrition.
They are in urgent need of life-saving supplies and support.
“I know what your support can do because I have seen UNICEF in action, helping children during and after emergencies!”
-Orlando Bloom
UNICEF is already on the ground, providing urgent supplies like emergency kits, water purification tables, shelters and medical supplies to children and families. We’ll stay for as long as needed, thanks to the support of people like you.
Please donate now and help us reach more children and families with urgent aid.
Your donation can make all the difference.
How is UNICEF responding?
UNICEF is working tirelessly to provide urgent humanitarian response in affected areas.
In its first wave of international supply deliveries into Libya, UNICEF airlifted over 30 tonnes of medicines and medical equipment, water purification tablets, emergency food rations, and high performance tents to meet the most urgent needs of children and their families.
Emergency supplies, including UNICEF's hygiene kits, are being delivered at Om Almomenen School, a school sheltering those affected in Derna, eastern Libya. © UNICEF/UNI437840/Werfalli
So far, UNICEF has mobilized:
- Essential medical supplies for approx. 10,000 people
- Hygiene kits for 1,100 individuals
- Sets of clothes for 500 children
- 100,000 water purification tablets
- 15 acute watery diarrhoea kits
- 25 high-performance tents and 250 tarpaulins to provide shelter for children and families who lost their homes and to set up temporary support centers.
Your donation can support our rapid crisis response to help us reach children affected by the crisis.
How you can help?
The need is immense and your donation can help us reach more children and families with immediate and long-term responses including:
- A response to immediate health and nutrition needs through mobile health teams.
- Emergency water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions including the distribution of family and individual hygiene kits, WASH system repairs, emergency sanitation in shelters, emergency water trucking, and cholera/water-borne diseases prevention;
- Emergency mental health and psychosocial support to affected populations, especially children and young people.
- Where possible, UNICEF will set-up child-friendly spaces for recreational activities and other group activities.
- Minimize disruption to education, UNICEF will establish where possible temporary learning spaces and provide learning materials to children. Facilities with minor damage will be dewatered, cleaned, and repaired.
- UNICEF plans to provide multi-purpose cash assistance to affected families to enable them to address their basic needs, as well as support the recovery of the local economy.
- Assessing damage to infrastructure and will support the rehabilitation of primary healthcare centers, WASH facilities, and schools, in close coordination with relevant authorities.