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.
- ₹880 can provide a multipurpose sleeping mat.
- ₹1760 can help a displaced Afghan family of five receive a kitchen set to cook and serve their meals.
- ₹7035 can provide a heater to a family in Ukraine to warm their home in winter.
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.
Choose how to donate?
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization working to save lives, protect rights and build a better future for refugees, internally displaced communities and stateless people. We work to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find refuge from violence or persecution.
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. UNHCR staff work as closely as possible with and for people forced to flee, with 90 per cent of our workforce in field locations. For further details on UNHCR's budget, read our Global Report.
By choosing to give a regular donation, you will be helping UNHCR to plan ahead and invest in long-term projects to improve the lives the refugees.
Faster help: Monthly donations allow UNHCR to respond to emergencies when a crisis occurs. Your gift can go where it's most needed.
Support of long-term operations: More predictable income helps UNHCR go beyond short-term emergency aid and provide families with ongoing relief and protection every single day.
Easy to donate: To set up a recurring donation, please choose the Monthly option in the form. You can always update your donations by contacting our Donor Care team at [email protected].
If you have any questions about your donation or our work, then please contact us at [email protected], we promise to reply as soon as we can.
UNHCR Reporting - for all the latest updates on UNHCR's protection program for vulnerable refugee families around the world.
About UNHCR
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. We work to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution, war or disaster at home.
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*Tax Disclaimer: Donations made directly to UNHCR may not be tax deductible in your country of residence. Laws regarding contributions to United Nations agencies vary from country to country. UNHCR does, however, partner with dedicated fundraising associations in a number of countries as well as having country specific offices with their own fundraising capacity. These countries include the USA, Germany, Spain, Japan, Australia, Italy, Canada, UK, South Korea, Hong Kong and Belgium. In order to make tax deductible donations through these offices you will need to donate through their individual websites. We are, however, able to issue a receipt of donation from UNHCR international that may be accepted in certain instances. We would suggest that if in doubt you contact your local tax advisor for guidelines on whether your gift is eligible or not.