🥜 This miracle peanut paste can help save a child’s life.

 30 years. 8.7 billion sachets. 
But children still need you.

Dear -,

Right now, children's lives are being saved by something small enough to fit in the palm of your hand – a peanut paste, inspired by Nutella, that a child can eat straight from the sachet. No fridge, hospital or clean water needed.

For 30 years, ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) – a sachet of fortified peanut paste – has transformed how we treat children with severe malnutrition. It works fast. It can be delivered anywhere. And it saves lives.

Every gram is optimised: Each 92-gram sachet provides around 500 calories and is packed with essential nutrients – energy, protein, vitamins and minerals – to help children recover from severe acute malnutrition.

Since 1996, UNICEF has delivered 8.7 billion sachets to children living in the world’s most challenging environments, making UNICEF the largest supplier of RUTF globally.

This milestone reflects extraordinary progress. But UNICEF’s lifesaving work is far from over.

Globally, 1 in 5 deaths among children under five are caused by severe acute malnutrition, making it one of the biggest threats to child survival.

The risk of malnutrition rises sharply during emergencies like conflicts or natural disasters, when families are displaced, and food and clean water supplies are disrupted.

For three decades, RUTF has helped UNICEF reach children in the hardest places – yet just as the need is rising, funding is being cut, putting children’s lives at risk. We can only keep reaching children with urgent support from people like you.

-, it starts with you.

As the end-of-financial year approaches, this is your chance to make a real difference to the lives of children everywhere, while earning a tax refund at the same time. Every sachet you help provide brings a child one step closer to survival.