Displaced children in Hudaydah
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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:

Thousands of families have been displaced due to recent climate change and droughts in Ethiopia's Somali regions.
© UNHCR/Eugene Sibomana

Horn of Africa Crisis

Help UNHCR provide safe shelter, cash assistance and life-saving aid to vulnerable communities.
A displaced girl wearing a winter jacket stands in a snowy street on the outskirts of Kabul. This winter, millions of Afghans are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
© UNHCR/Andrew McConnell

Winter Emergency

Donate now to help vulnerable families find safety and warmth this winter.
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