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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:

Flooding in Yemen devastates homes of internally displaced people

Yemen Emergency

Flooding has devastated families who've been living in temporary camps for over seven years. Please send help now.

Congolese refugee sisters embrace inside their home in Nakivale settlement, Uganda. Uganda hosts around one million refugee children.

Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Uganda

Donate now to help refugee children forced to flee conflict and persecution on their own.

Website Afghanistan. UNHCR PSN Program Assists Idps From Kunduz Residing In Tents In Kabul Informal Settlements

Winter Emergency

Please donate now to save lives and give much-needed hope through the coldest, darkest months of the year.