Help children get what they urgently need
Together, this Christmas, we could get 500,000 life-changing deliveries to children around the corner and around the world.*
Whether it’s via truck, plane, motorbike, boat or donkey – whatever children need – we'll find a way to deliver it. Your gift will help children in the UK and around the world, wherever the need is greatest.
Together, this Christmas, we could get 500,000 life-changing deliveries to children around the corner and around the world. *
Make one more delivery that matters. Donate now.
Your gift will help children in the UK and around the world, wherever the need is greatest.
* This is an illustrative equivalent, not a count of physical deliveries. Donations are unrestricted and support children wherever the need is greatest. We're aiming to raise over £5 million across Save the Children's fundraising activities in November and December 2026. We use a representative value of £10 per delivery, that's equivalent to over 500,000 deliveries of vital support.
£10 could fund a number of essential items, including our Shelter kit, 38 sachets of life-saving peanut paste or vaccinations for a child against common illnesses.
We get deliveries through, no matter the challenge
Whether by bus, plane, truck, donkey, van or boat, we fight every day to reach the children who need us most, despite conflict, poverty, disaster and distance.
Baby essentials by van
Questions about One Delivery That Matters
What is One Delivery That Matters?
One Delivery That Matters is Save the Children's Christmas campaign. It shows how our teams get food, medicine, school supplies and safe places to sleep to children who need them, by bus, plane, truck, donkey, van and boat, even when roads are blocked or aid is delayed. Together this Christmas, we can get 500,000 life-changing deliveries to children in the UK and around the world.
How are life-changing deliveries made?
Our teams plan routes, negotiate access and find another way through when the usual routes are blocked. In Somalia, health teams carry vaccines on donkeys where the road ends. In Bangladesh, a maternity boat brings midwives to river communities. In South Sudan, planes reach mobile clinics when roads are too dangerous. In Ukraine, a drone attack hit a warehouse storing school kits, and the team still made the delivery. When disaster strikes, we aim to respond within 72 hours.
What can my donation help provide?
£2 could pay for a mosquito net. £24 could buy a shelter kit for a family affected by floods in Nepal. £25 could buy a baby gate for a family in the UK. £29 could buy a school backpack for a child in Ukraine. £35 could provide a week's supply of fortified peanut paste for a child with malnutrition in South Sudan. £40 could pay for a course of antibiotics.
These are examples of what gifts like yours could do. Your gift will help children in the UK and around the world, wherever the need is greatest.
How does Save the Children help children?
We help children in the UK and around the world stay healthy, learn and stay safe, through health care, education, food, protection, emergency response and campaigning. See what we do.
What happens to my donation?
Your gift will help children in the UK and around the world, wherever the need is greatest. In 2025, about 85p in every £1 we spent went on our work for children. See how we use your donation.
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