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Humanitarian Emergencies

Your gifts provide life-saving aid for people in crisis.

When violence erupts and disaster strikes, UNHCR teams are ready to deploy humanitarian assistance in emergencies within 72 hours.

This assistance can include life-saving aid, protection, shelter, clean water, sanitation and essential relief items for families affected by conflict, disaster or displacement. UNHCR is often first in and last out during humanitarian emergencies. Teams provide urgent care and assistance to the people who need it most, and stay and deliver for as long as needed.

Emergency supplies are warehoused in seven strategic hubs - Accra, Amman, Copenhagen, Douala, Dubai, Nairobi and Panama - to enable immediate transit anywhere in the world.

UNHCR staff support every stage of emergency humanitarian response, from establishing camps in safe zones and installing water and sanitation, to coordinating emergency airlifts and protecting the most vulnerable, including women and children.

Explore some of the key humanitarian crises UNHCR is responding to below:

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Afghanistan Emergency

Families are at breaking point. Donate now to deliver emergency aid.

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Ukraine Emergency

Help Ukrainians enduring another year of full-scale war.

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Middle East Emergency

Terrified families fleeing violence across the region urgently need your help.

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Lebanon Emergency

Donate now to help families on the run

A woman looks out over tents at a crowded displacement site in eastern DRC. Overcrowding and lack of adequate hygiene and sanitation makes displaced people more vulnerable to the spread of diseases like Ebola.

DRC Ebola Emergency

A fast-spreading outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the DRC is putting vulnerable families in even greater danger.

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Sudan Emergency

War is raging, forcing families to flee. Donate to Sudan now to help families survive conflict, famine and disease. Your gift can save lives.

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Syrian Crisis

The situation in Syria remains extremely volatile. Although Assad’s government has collapsed, many Syrians are still displaced and urgently need humanitarian aid.

Ma Phyu Ma, an internally displaced Rohingya woman, lost her home during Cyclone Mocha

Rohingya Emergency

Send life-saving aid to Rohingya refugees who are hanging on by a thread.