Disasters Emergency Relief

When the ground shakes, the water rises, or a storm takes the roof, a family can lose everything that keeps them alive before breakfast: the bed the children slept in, the well in the yard, the rice that was meant to last the week. They run with what they can carry. Then they wait. That wait is where your donation to Disasters Emergency Relief matters.

We will use your gift to get drinking water, food, hygiene kits and temporary shelter to people who have been hit. We work with local partners who know the roads and the families. They buy supplies close to the people who need them, so help arrives faster and the money stays in a community that has already been hurt.

Emergency relief needs vary by household and incident. Contributions depend on funding and local costs; delivery depends on access and partner capacity. No fixed quantity or response time is guaranteed.

After an earthquake, people sleep outside because they are afraid the roof will fall. Water pipes break. After a flood, every well can be spoiled with sewage and debris. After a tsunami or a storm, rice stores are washed away and families sleep in schools or on higher ground. Dirty water then brings disease. Hunger follows a ruined harvest. Shelter is how a child sleeps without rain on their face.

Emergency relief needs vary by household and incident. Contributions depend on funding and local costs; delivery depends on access and partner capacity. No fixed quantity or response time is guaranteed.

The cameras leave. The need does not. A gift today helps the family still sleeping under a tarpaulin, and the family who will lose their house the next time the weather or the ground turns. Please do not wait for the next headline. Give now to Disasters Emergency Relief.

Emergency relief needs vary by household and incident. Contributions depend on funding and local costs; delivery depends on access and partner capacity. No fixed quantity or response time is guaranteed.

Disasters Emergency Relief answers those same first needs after every type of shock. Hygiene kits sit with water because dirty water spreads disease. Winter warmth — blankets and extra tarpaulins — sits with shelter when families are still displaced. We do not run search-and-rescue. We do not rebuild. We fund the meal, the drink and the dry place to sleep.

Disasters do not send a fundraising calendar. A gift to Disasters Emergency Relief is a gift to the family who has already lost a house — and the family who has not lost one yet.

Please choose an amount and donate. The figures below are suggested contributions towards emergency essentials, not verified partner quotations or guaranteed quantities. What a family receives will depend on the disaster and on what they need that week.

That is the promise of Disasters Emergency Relief. You give. We turn your money into help for people who have lost their homes. Please do not leave the page without giving if you are able.

You donate. We hold your gift for this appeal. When families need emergency help after a disaster, we release funds to local partners. Those partners buy supplies nearby and intend to distribute them to families — a water container, a food parcel, a hygiene kit, a sheet of shelter material.

Buying locally is faster, and it is kinder. A shopkeeper in a damaged town still has a customer. A family does not wait for a container from Europe. If you want to give in memory of someone, or as a group, write to us and we will mark the gift for Disasters Emergency Relief.

Money that has already been given can move when a disaster hits. Partners on the ground know the roads. They aim to start distributions within two to three days. Where access is blocked, they use boats, motorbikes or whatever will actually reach a family. Your gift still shortens the wait between the shock and the first clean drink.

That is why Disasters Emergency Relief is a standing fund, not a campaign that starts after the pictures arrive.

You do not need to travel or send a parcel. You can also open the donate page and choose emergency relief, but the form on this page keeps Disasters Emergency Relief selected for you.

If your mosque, church, workplace or friends are collecting, gather what you can and donate it here in one gift.

Money is more useful than clothes, shoes or bottled water from the UK, unless a partner has asked for a specific item in writing. Parcels usually arrive late, and buying locally is faster.

Disasters do not follow a fundraising calendar. A regular gift means we can say yes when partners ask for water, food and shelter materials. It is one of the kindest ways to support families after a flood, an earthquake, a tsunami or a storm.

Please start a monthly gift at the amount that is comfortable for you. You can change it later. If you would rather give once, that gift is welcome too. Donate to Disasters Emergency Relief today.

A standing fund lets trustees release money to partners when an assessed need arises, rather than starting a new appeal each time. It does not mean supplies are already positioned, and no response time is guaranteed.

Disasters Emergency Relief gives to the same standing emergency relief fund as the Humanitarian Appeal and the Crisis Appeal, with the same restriction. Choose any of them; for a gift focused on one country, use that country’s appeal.

Emergency relief Objects are food, clean water and temporary shelter. Hygiene kits sit with water because dirty water spreads disease. Reconstruction, livelihoods, cash grants and mobile health clinics are outside this appeal. Please use the Cancer Emergency Appeal or Gift of Sight if you want to fund treatment.

We never send cash to individuals. Trustees release funds to vetted local partners who buy supplies nearby. That is how Disasters Emergency Relief stays fast, and how donor intent is protected.

Clothes, tins and bottles from Britain fill warehouses and miss the first days, when a family actually needs a drink and a meal. Local buying is faster. It also keeps a shop open in a damaged town.

If a partner has asked in writing for a specific item, we will say so. Until then, the kindest thing you can do is donate to Disasters Emergency Relief on this page today.