Emergency Floods & Earthquake Appeal

When the waters rise or the ground shakes, a family can lose everything that keeps them alive before breakfast: the roof over the children’s beds, 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 matters.

Monsoon flooding returns every year. Earthquakes do not send a fundraising calendar. A standing fund means kits can move when a national disaster agency declares an emergency — Pakistan’s NDMA, Indonesia’s BNPB or Malaysia’s NADMA.

You do not have to travel. You do not have to pack a box. The most useful thing you can do tonight is donate. Gifts of any amount contribute towards emergency relief; quantities depend on local quotes and assessed needs.

Pakistan’s monsoon can put millions of people on the move in a bad year. Indonesia’s islands flood and shake. Malaysia’s east coast floods in the northeast monsoon. After a quake, people sleep outside because they are afraid the roof will fall. After a flood, the well is spoiled.

A family that had rice for the week may have nothing by nightfall. Dirty water then brings disease. Hunger follows a ruined harvest. Shelter is how a child sleeps without rain on their face.

Please do not wait for the next monsoon photograph. Give now to the Emergency Floods Appeal so a family already displaced is not left thirsty while the world organises a response.

Use the form beside this appeal, or open the donate page and choose emergency relief. Keep this appeal selected. That gift is your donation to the Emergency Floods and Earthquake Appeal.

If you can, give every month. Floods and quakes do not wait for a fundraising drive. A regular gift means partners can keep kits ready. A one-off gift still matters.

If your mosque, church, workplace or friends are collecting, gather what you can and donate it here. Please do not send clothes from the UK unless a partner has asked in writing. Parcels arrive late. Local buying is faster.

A coastal quake can bring a wave as well as a cracked wall. A flood can last weeks after the rain stops. One appeal for food, water and shelter means trustees can release funds to whichever Object country has the declared emergency.

This appeal is restricted to those three things. It does not rebuild roads or run long-term housing programmes.

If you want your gift marked for Pakistan specifically, use the Pakistan Floods Appeal. This page is the three-country standing fund. Both buy food, water and shelter through local partners.

Harvests drowned in floodwater become hunger months later. That is why this appeal sits beside the Hunger Crisis Appeal.

If you want your gift marked for Indonesia specifically for emergency relief, use the Indonesia Emergency Appeal. This page covers earthquakes and floods across Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Local partners buy supplies nearby and intend to distribute them to families.

The news cycle moves on. The monsoon or the aftershocks do not. Children still sleep on damp ground. Older people still get ill.

Please choose an amount and donate. The amounts below are contributions towards this programme. They are not published partner quotes or guarantees of a specific quantity. What a family receives depends on the country and on what they need that week.

That is the promise of this appeal. 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.

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 [email protected] and we will mark the gift for the Emergency Floods Appeal.

Money that has already been given can move when the waters rise or the ground shakes.

Please do not send clothes, shoes or bottled water from Britain unless a partner has asked for a specific item in writing. Parcels usually arrive late and cost more than buying locally. The kindest thing you can do is donate here.

If you want your gift marked for Indonesia specifically after a disaster in Indonesia, use the Indonesia Emergency Appeal. If you want Pakistan specifically, use the Pakistan Floods Appeal. This page is the standing fund for all three countries.

Disasters do not follow a fundraising calendar. A regular gift means we can say yes when partners ask for water, food and shelter materials. 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 today.

You do not need to give twice unless you want to. A gift here can still help Indonesian families after floods or quakes. A gift on the Indonesia page is marked for that country.

Local partners know what a family needs that week. A container of unused coats does not.