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.
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.
Additionally, your donations could help us to distribute warm winter clothes, thermal blankets, mattresses and heaters to make this winter bearable for people who have lost so much due to war and conflict. You could also provide access to health services for people forced to flee, as well as vital cash assistance, which gives families the ability to buy the things they need most to get through the long winter months, from fuel and electricity to food and medicine.
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.
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Your money helps UNHCR provide protection, shelter and other forms of assistance, and advocacy on behalf of displaced and stateless people every year
We ensure that as many funds as possible are redirected to refugees, stateless persons and asylum-seekers. 85 per cent of all funds raised go directly to field operations. 7 per cent is allocated for global programmes, helping refugees, internally displaced people, asylum seekers and stateless people under the UNHCR mandate around the world, and 8 per cent is for headquarters administration.
UNHCR staff work as closely as possible with and for people forced to flee, with 90 per cent of our workforce based in field locations. For further details on UNHCR's budget, read our global report.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution.
We lead international action to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.
We deliver life-saving assistance, help safeguard fundamental human rights, and develop solutions that ensure people have a safe place called home where they can build a better future. We also work to ensure that stateless people are granted a nationality.
We work in over 130 countries, using our expertise to protect and care for millions.
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For one-time donation, it will support UNHCR work where refugees and internally displaced people are in need.
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If you have any questions about your donation, please email us at donorcare@unhcr.org.