UNHCR | Protect this winter | Donate now

As temperatures plummet around the world, families who have been forced to flee struggling to survive in inadequate shelters, such as leaking tents to freezing caves and bombed-out buildings.

The time to act is now. Protect, this winter, before lives are lost.

Winter is always a challenging time, but this year, thousands of families from Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine are returning to their homelands after being forced to flee, with nothing to protect them from the bitter winter weather.

• $65 can provide a gas cylinder to five families in Afghanistan allowing them to prepare hot meals.
• $140 can provide a family with an emergency shelter kit – containing materials needed to repair damaged roofs and broken windows in Ukraine.
• $240 can provide emergency relief items to a refugee family living in Syria, including blankets, sleeping mats, mattresses, a jerry can, a solar lamp and a kitchen set.

We are on the ground, providing protection to the most vulnerable people, but we need your help to make sure our support arrives in time.

Provide warm, comfort and protection this winter.

Make a donation today, and you can help people returning to bombed out and damaged homes. Your donation could help to replace windows and doors, repair leaking roofs and add insulation to keep out the cold, as well as enabling people to begin rebuilding their lives again.

Help us go further, faster. Donate today.

UNHCR is on the ground – all year, every year, no matter what – providing protection to the most vulnerable people. But by donating today, your support will help families to keep the cold at bay, and survive even the most harrowing conditions. Please give what you can.