Thank you for taking the time to consider leaving a gift to refugees and displaced people in your Will.
The gift of a bequest to Aotearoa New Zealand for UNHCR is transformational. It ensures that your values of compassion and generosity live on – helping people through their darkest hour.
By choosing to leave a gift in your Will, you’ll be helping refugees on every step of their journey, and into the future.
You'll provide safety, shelter and emergency supplies. You’ll also help protect peoples’ fundamental human rights and help them build brighter futures.
This is a truly meaningful and life-changing legacy to leave behind.
Providing core relief items, like mattresses, solar lamps, blankets and kitchenware, to people forced to flee conflict in Sudan.
Distributing winter blankets to help Syrian refugees in Jordan stay warm and comfortable during the cold winter months.
Repairing damaged houses in Ukraine, helping families return home and begin rebuilding their lives and communities.
Connecting refugees with primary and secondary healthcare, including nutrition, mental health, and sexual and reproductive health services.
Providing shelter, emergency supplies, livelihood opportunities and education support to Rohingya refugee families.
Distributing cash assistance to help vulnerable and displaced families cover essentials such as rent, utilities, food and medicine, giving them greater control over their lives and an increased sense of choice and dignity.
Decide on the family, friends and organisations that you would like to recognise in your Will.
Choose the type of bequest you would like to leave, for example:
Visit a solicitor to have your Will written or speak to them about updating a current one with a codicil. Or you can visit Gathered Here to create a Will for free.
Find out how your bequest can provide critical support to people like Nina and Mahbouba.
Nina Ryazantseva, 82, sought safety at a UNHCR-supported transit centre in Ukraine after an explosion ripped through her home while she hid in the basement.
Nina had to hide from gunfire as she fled the ruins of her village.
Local responders eventually brought Nina to a transit centre, where evacuees are offered beds, psychological support, help accessing social services, and legal counselling.
Mahbouba, her husband, and their five children now have a stable and safe place to live after their home in central Afghanistan was destroyed by fighting.
The young family had spent two years sheltering in a cave in one of the country’s coldest regions before UNHCR was able to help them build a permanent home.
Leaving a gift in your Will to Aotearoa New Zealand for UNHCR is a profoundly generous decision.
We encourage you to speak with your loved ones about your wishes. And we respect your right to change your mind at any time should circumstances change.
When you leave a gift to support refugees, we promise that it will be used effectively to have the biggest impact possible.
You can also find out more about writing your Will for free with our trusted online partner Gathered Here – it can take as little as 10 minutes.
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Thank you again for considering making the safety and strength of refugees your legacy.
Many of our wonderful supporters tell me that they would like to do more to help refugees, and they are inspired when they find out how transformational a gift in their Will can be.
We are so appreciative that they’ve made the choice to leave a legacy to the world’s refugees. With record numbers of people continuing to flee their homes due to conflict, persecution or disaster, the generosity of donors has never been more important.
Your bequest will ensure UNHCR teams can reach more civilians escaping the frontlines of conflict, and also provide longer-term support with education, healthcare or livelihood projects – today and into the future.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about how you can create your legacy, including how we may be able to gift match your bequest.
The majority of funds raised by Aotearoa New Zealand for UNHCR are directed to UNHCR’s emergency operations, providing the ready funds and resources to respond quickly and effectively in situations of crisis and disaster.