“Give charity without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity.”(Tirmidhi)
Our Emergency Fund urgently needs funds to save lives. It’s what helped us to respond to the war in Ukraine, the Gaza crisis, the Lebanon blast, and so many other disasters without a delay in waiting for funds.
£100 – be a lifeline to a family in crisis. Provide a vulnerable family with food, clean water, and medical aid. Your donation can transform the recovery of a family that has lost their home and livelihood.
£70 - keep a family-of-five fed and nourished for an entire month with a wholesome and nutritious food parcel.
£35/month - help us be ready to respond rapidly, wherever and whenever disaster strikes, helping families to survive.
When a disaster strikes, our Emergency Fund allows us to respond within 72 hours, dispatching the aid and experts that the most vulnerable need. Arriving on the scene in these first hours is critical to controlling the scale of an emergency, and to helping to get families to safety.
Reap the blessings of sadaqah and a mercy to brothers and sisters who are hit by disaster around the globe. Donate to our Emergency Fund and help us to respond to emergencies within 72 hours, helping communities to survive, recover, and rebuild.
How our Emergency Fund has saved lives
Sadly, many communities are already dealing with major crises when they are hit by another.
In Somalia, after three seasons of no rain, hunger levels are at their worst for 30 years, with 350,000 children at risk of starvation.
How our Emergency Fund is helping
Before a single pound was donated to our Somalia Emergency Appeal, we began distributing nutritious food parcels, malnutrition treatment and shelter, as well as delivering clean water to last a month to communities.
The fund allowed us to react swiftly to rising malnutrition and famine-like conditions, without waiting for donations to come through.
The crisis continues in Gaza
In Gaza, families struggling with the blockade, marginalization, and unable to properly access education, healthcare, and jobs, are frequently hit by devastating escalations. Last May, during 15 days of bombings, 278 people died, and over 9,000 were injured. More than 77,000 people had to flee their homes, around 30 clinics and hospitals were damaged, and Gaza’s only COVID-19 test centre was destroyed.
**How our Emergency Fund has helped
** We provided 18,000 families with food vouchers, we hired people to clear rubble from the street, providing them with jobs and helping the community to recover, and we provided medical supplies and 25,000 litres of fuel to hospitals and clinics in Gaza, helping 15,443 people.
Deadly Bangladesh Floods
In Bangladesh, severe flooding left 2 million people devastated. The worst monsoon rains the country has seen in decades led to the destruction of hundreds of thousands of homes, roads, communication lines, schools, hospitals and water sources. Families were left stranded, running out of food, while water sources became contaminated, increasing the spread of disease.
How our Emergency Fund has helped
We were able to respond straight away, supporting 444 vulnerable families in the Sylhet district in Bangladesh. Each family received a food parcel with rice, oil, flour, sugar, lentils, vermicelli and dried milk. They also received a safety kit including masks and sanitisers, water purification tablets and a blanket.
Afghanistan Earthquake
On 22nd June 2022, the Paktika province of Afghanistan was struck by a devastating earthquake, measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale. Tragically, over 1,150 people have lost their lives, over 1,500 people have been injured and over 10,000 homes have been destroyed. Almost all of the homes in the Paktika province have been destroyed, rendering over 50,000 people homeless and even more vulnerable. The earthquake has left a population that was already vulnerable and fragile, with nothing, having claimed lives, homes, livelihood and hope.
How our Emergency Fund has helped
We were able to swiftly reach the village of Aslasha, in the Paktika Province, where the earthquake has claimed over 54 lives, and destroyed over 90% of homes. Food had become increasingly scarce and difficult to source.
We were able to provide cooked meals to over 200 affected people in this village every day, helping to tackle hunger and bring ease.
We have 30 years of experience in responding to emergencies all over the globe.
To be there, whenever and wherever a disaster strikes, we urgently need more donations to our Emergency Fund. In every emergency, it’s always the most vulnerable – children, older people, those already struggling for food – who suffer the most.
Charity is a blessing – for those who receive it, and for those who give too. It offers protection from calamity, no matter how little you can afford to give.
As our brothers and sisters across the world face a scale of crisis that we’ve never seen before, be a mercy to the Ummah.
Donate to our Emergency Fund appeal and reap the reward of helping us to act swiftly to save lives in emergencies.
We react
When disaster strikes, Human Appeal is one of the few humanitarian organisations able to rapidly access some of the world’s most hard-to-reach communities.
Even when emergencies are overlooked in the news and by other charities – meaning it can be hard to raise funds – our Global Emergency Fund enables us to react within 72 hours, so we can provide people with the essentials they need to survive, even when public awareness about their hardship is low.
We restore
When the emergency is over and long after TV cameras have left, Human Appeal remains on the ground to support those impacted by disaster.
As well as helping to prepare for emergencies, our Global Emergency Fund helps us to rebuild lives and communities after a crisis. From providing shelter and safe water to vital healthcare assistance, we are there to rebuild communities and help vulnerable families to begin to recover.
We reinforce
The impact of a disaster is felt for weeks, months and even years.
By supplying the vital tools and resources vulnerable communities need to rebuild their resilience, we can help ensure their future safety. We empower communities so that they can take ownership of their own futures - from helping them to build sustainable safe water systems to providing resilience livelihood training, we are there to transform and empower futures through our Global Emergency Fund.
Giving mercy for 30 years
For 30 years, Human Appeal has been giving mercy to the world’s most vulnerable. Last year alone, thanks to generous supporters like you, we helped 4.4 million people in 19 countries, including over 2 million Palestinians, over 324,000 people in Pakistan, more than 349,800 people in Syria, and over 963,800 people in Yemen.
“Give charity without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity.” (Tirmidhi)
