We at Hostelworld.com support UNICEF in their global fight against HIV/AIDS and world poverty among young people, children and their families.

To date Hostelworld.com, along with your help, has donated US $530,827 to UNICEF. Your booking makes all this possible - remember every time you book through us you improve the life of a child in a developing nation.

Last month (July 2008) your reservations helped raise US$24,739.

What has your donation provided?

For 6 cents - the price of 1 sachet of oral re-hydration salts, mixed with safe water to save a child's life.

For 60 cents - can buy 50 water purification tablets, each treating 4-5 litres of water, enabling children to drink and wash safely.

For $12 - provides 2 long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets, protecting families from malaria that kills an African child every 30 seconds.

For $20 - is the cost of a double-sided chalkboard, 2 chalkboard dusters, 100 white chalk sticks and 100 coloured chalk sticks, providing a teacher with basic tools to teach a class.

For $100 - can provide 700 doses of measles vaccine, protecting children from this deadly disease.

For $1000 - the cost of providing a child with paediatric antiretroviral treatment in capsule form for 5 years.

Your booking makes all this possible – remember every time you book through us you improve the life of a child in a developing nation.

Thank you for helping us to help the children who need it most of all.

More about UNICEF here