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:

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.