Urgent appeal to help displaced families

Help families in desperate need

Every year, all across the world, millions of families are displaced, either by conflict or natural disasters.

Families forced from their homes lack food, shelter and sanitation. Families like Joy’s, whose home, livelihood, food and belongings were swept away in the flash floods that hit Kasese, Uganda, last year. The family sought refuge in their local church.

Huddled together in makeshift shelters, without food or clean water – livelihoods destroyed and options limited by lockdown – displaced families face other dangers, especially during a pandemic. Children in particular are vulnerable to malnutrition, illness, violence and exploitation.

Your gift today could save a child’s life. Thank you for giving what you can.

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How your money can help

Families like Joy’s urgently need your help. Your donation today could:

Provide families with the urgent essentials they need when disaster strikes

Give emergency food supplies so children get desperately needed nourishment

Provide water purification kits to protect disaster-hit families from illness

Your gift of today could help children who had their home ripped away from them.

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We had to hurry out of our home. In the dark, we just ran. I thought we were going to die but God had mercy on us.

Joy

School teacher and mother of eight

Help a child who has lost everything

A section of houses that have submerged by the rising water levels forcing families to flee their homes, Uganda. © 2020 World Vision

Climate change is causing more natural disasters than ever before

Hazards such as floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, forcing more people from their homes each year. Climate change makes the poorest people in the world, whose livelihoods depend on the land and the seasons, more vulnerable.

Boreholes have been submerged making it difficult for families to have access to safe, clean water, Uganda © 2020 World Vision

Coronavirus compounds the threats that families left homeless face

Huddled together in makeshift shelters in overcrowded camps, without clean water or hygiene essentials, livelihoods destroyed and options limited by lockdown, people can’t protect themselves from coronavirus or its consequences.

Beatrice, part of the Child Protection Committee in Uganda, teaches to a group of women and children how to protect themselves © 2020 World Vision

Women and children are more vulnerable in the wake of a crisis

Walking long distances to collect water when supplies are damaged, women and children face danger. In shelters too, the risk of domestic violence increases as stress levels rise, and children may be forced to work or marry.

Sylvia – pictured with Marianne, a Child Protection Committee member – was able to use the cash assistance from World Vision to start her small business, Uganda © 2020 World Vision

Responding to a crisis and supporting families to recover and rebuild

We make sure families get the food, shelter and water they urgently need to stay safe straight after a crisis. We also work with displaced families for the longer term, helping them rebuild their lives and become more resilient to disaster.

Families having to flee their homes after flash floods hit Kasese, Uganda © 2020 World Vision

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Together, we can protect vulnerable children following a crisis that makes them homeless. And your gift today can help build brighter futures too – mitigating the impact of future disasters through training and longer-term support.

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At the end of 2019, more than 5 million people were made homeless due to natural disasters. In the first half of 2020 alone, disasters displaced almost another 10 million people. And more than 1 billion people face being displaced by 2050 due to the climate crisis.

More important now than ever

As climate change is intensifying the devastation caused by natural disasters, and coronavirus threatens lives and livelihoods too, please help us be there for children who’ve lost everything.

Could you donate today to save a child’s life?

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Thank you for giving what you can.

Urgent appeal

How your money can help

Help a child who has lost everything

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