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 emergency assistance within 72 hours.

UNHCR is often first in and last out during humanitarian emergencies, providing life-saving assistance and care to the people who need it most.

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 cover every angle of emergency response, from establishing camps in safe zones, to installing water and sanitation, to coordinating emergency airlifts, to protecting the most vulnerable, including women and children.

Some of the key humanitarian emergencies that UNHCR are responding to are below:

Ukraine. War Affected People In Donetsk Region Get Help To Repair Their Homes. (1)

Ukraine Emergency

Help Ukrainians enduring another year of full-scale war.

A UNHCR officer with her back to the camera holds the hand of an infant

Middle East Emergency

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

A Superman figure hangs on a wall in a red room at a house damaged by an Israeli airstrike In Tyre, Lebanon.

Lebanon Emergency

Donate now to help families on the run

A woman looks out over tents at a crowded displacement site in eastern DRC, where Ebola is threatening lives.

DRC Ebola Emergency

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

Baby held in a woman’s arms while she feeds the infant with a bottle of milk

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.

An Afghan man looks for his belongings amidst the rubble of a collapsed house after a deadly magnitude-6 earthquake that struck Afghanistan around midnight, in Dara Noor, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan

Afghanistan Emergency

A devastating earthquake has struck eastern Afghanistan. Send emergency aid to families who’ve lost everything.

Child wearing a green jumper and looking at the camera

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.