UNICEF Rwanda

Your micro monthly support helps UNICEF provide life-saving nutrition, healthcare and safe water to children facing crisis across Africa.

For children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), timely care can mean the difference between life and death. Regular support helps sustain this care over time, giving more children the chance to recover, regain strength and thrive.

Because even a small gift, given every month, can help create lasting impact.

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Help UNICEF keep progress moving for children.

Across Rwanda, we work alongside families, communities and partners to help ensure timely access to essential care, protection and opportunities.

The support behind this work helps us remain present in communities, build on the progress being made and continue reaching families with the services they need.

Stand with UNICEF and help keep this work moving forward. Donate today.

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Children and families in Nepal are facing the devastating impact of severe flooding.
UNICEF is responding with urgent assistance to help those affected and reach children with essential care and protection.

Your donation can help UNICEF continue reaching children and families during this emergency. Together, we can help ensure that children receive the assistance they need when it matters most.

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A child's future should never be defined by hunger.

Across Somalia, children facing severe hunger need timely access to therapeutic food, safe water and essential healthcare. With continued monthly support, UNICEF can keep delivering lifesaving assistance while remaining ready to respond whenever children need us most.

Together, we can help more children recover, regain their strength and look towards a healthier future.

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Growing more food is not enough if children still cannot access the nutritious diets they need.

At , UNICEF Rwanda Chief of Health and Nutrition, Samson Desie, joined government, UN and private-sector partners to discuss how Rwanda’s agricultural progress can translate into better nutrition for children, adolescents and women.

In Rwanda, 27 per cent of children under five are stunted and 37 per cent are anaemic. Food-system transformation must therefore be measured not only by how much food is produced or its contribution to economic growth, but by whether every family can access and afford safe, nutritious and diverse foods—particularly during a child’s first 1,000 days.

UNICEF calls for stronger coordination across agriculture, health, education and the private sector; greater investment in locally produced, nutrient-dense foods; and policies that reward nutrition outcomes, not production volumes alone.

Governments, businesses, investors and development partners must place children’s right to nutritious food at the centre of every food-system policy and investment, with deliberate action to reach the most disadvantaged families.

Every child must have access to the food they need to survive, grow and thrive.

Financing food systems is an investment in children’s health, development and future.

At the United Nations Breakthrough Event on “Unlocking Capital for Food Systems” during , UNICEF Deputy Representative Dominic Muntanga moderated a discussion on how finance, policy and innovation can accelerate food-systems transformation.

The panel brought together government, financial institutions and food businesses to explore how investment can reach rural communities, support local entrepreneurs and help nutritious, climate-resilient food products reach more families.

For UNICEF, the measure of a successful food system is clear: can every child access the safe, nutritious and diverse foods they need to grow, learn and thrive?

UNICEF calls on governments, financial institutions, businesses and development partners to direct more investment towards child nutrition, support enterprises producing nutritious foods and make healthy diets affordable for every family.

Capital must deliver results for children.

Tomorrow at , join us to discuss how finance, policy and innovation can unlock capital and transform food systems.

Moderated by UNICEF’s Dominic Muntanga, the panel will put nutritious, resilient food systems—and children—at the heart of the conversation.

🕘 9:45–10:10
📍 MH4 – Space B

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Young people with disabilities are farmers, entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders. Yet many continue to face barriers to skills, finance, land, technology, markets and decision-making.

At the Africa Food Systems Forum 2026 in Kigali, UNICEF Rwanda Representative Lieke van de Wiel called for agrifood systems that enable young people with disabilities to participate fully and equally.

This requires governments, businesses, funders and programme implementers to make disability inclusion part of programme design, financing, implementation and measurement from the start.

For UNICEF, inclusion begins in childhood. Children and adolescents with disabilities must have equal access to nutrition, education, skills and opportunities so they can transition into adulthood ready to participate, lead and earn dignified livelihoods.