Right now women, girls, and UNFPA’s frontline health workers in Ukraine are facing urgent shortages of basic necessities, menstrual hygiene and maternal health supplies, safe spaces for survivors, and medical care. They need immediate support for their health and wellbeing.

Nina with her daughter Yulia in the bomb shelter where she sought safety before and after giving birth.

In the last few weeks of her pregnancy, Nina’s birthing plan changed drastically as the conflict grew.

Nina recalled the plan at the UNFPA-supported Chernihiv Maternity Hospital, “If there were no missile attacks, we were taken to the first floor and gave birth in the corridor — far from the windows. But when the security situation was critical, we were lowered into the bomb shelter. It was pure horror: Babies were crying; women were giving birth. I gave birth in the corridor. Other women were lying next to me or giving birth.”

UNFPA’s mobile and hospital care teams risk their lives every day to provide sexual and reproductive healthcare across 23 regions in Ukraine. We’re doing what we can — with the limited resources we have — to provide women and girls with the support and healthcare they need as they endure some of the most dangerous conditions imaginable.

Frontline workers in Ukraine and other crisis regions practice resilience, compassion, and dedication that save lives daily. Despite the dangers, they stay where help is needed most. At the same time, the supplies needed to provide this lifesaving care are scarce.

Will you make an emergency gift to provide the vital supplies, training, safe spaces, and care that frontline workers, women, babies, girls, and midwives count on to ease their suffering and bring hope to the most vulnerable in Ukraine and beyond? Your gift means more than you may know during their greatest time of need.

Sexual and reproductive health is a human right. But due to the ongoing conflict, thousands of Ukraine’s medical facilities have been destroyed. Access to maternal care is no longer readily available. There’s no certainty day to day if pregnant women or a mother with an injured child can find care. But even in crisis, life goes on — and donors like you can help lighten the burden.

You have the power to change and save lives. A gift you make right now can help a girl displaced from her home manage her period with a UNFPA Dignity Kit or provide a midwife with the equipment and supplies to give an expecting mother an ultrasound and nutritional supplements for a healthy birth.

Knowing the impact you can make for women, babies, and girls in humanitarian crisis regions like Ukraine, will you make an emergency gift now?

Thank you for being a beacon of hope and refusing to let women and girls face their darkest moments alone.

— USA for UNFPA