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Bring Light and Safety to Refugee Families | UNHCR & Signify Foundation
There are more people around the world who are forcibly displaced than ever before. An unprecedented 122 million have been forced from home, due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations, or events seriously disturbing public order.
You can make a difference. Donate to UNHCR Emergency Action.
Your support helps ensure that refugees and displaced families caught up in the next emergency can access vital assistance, protection, and shelter as soon as possible – even in the most underreported crises.
Together we can be stronger in an uncertain world. Together we can be prepared. Together we can be more certain of making a difference.
You can provide urgently needed relief before the headlines hit, by donating today.
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UNHCR in partnership with the Signify Foundation
Lighting Lives: Bringing Safe, Sustainable Light to Displaced Families
Solar lighting helps families forced to flee reclaim safety, dignity, and a sense of normalcy.
Through the Lighting Lives partnership between UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the Signify Foundation, safe, sustainable light is brought to displaced communities in refugee settlements around the world — including in Ukraine, Pakistan, Uganda and many other locations.
- ✨ Helps children study safely after sunset
- ✨ Provides safer movement for women and girls
- ✨ Reduces dependency on unsafe fuels like kerosene
- ✨ Improves community safety in camps and settlements
- ✨ Restores dignity and a sense of normalcy for families
Solar lighting enables children to study after dark, helps women and girls move safely, and allows families to regain dignity, security, and a sense of normalcy — even in extremely challenging conditions.
Human Rights Day · 10 DecemberA special employee-led donation page has been created to support UNHCR’s global emergency response and bring light, safety, and hope to people forced to flee.
can provide a baby kit for five families in Chad.
can provide three vulnerable families in Lebanon with cash assistance to meet their basic needs for a month.
can provide a mosquito net to three Rohingya refugee families in Bangladesh.
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. 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.
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 donors@unhcr.org.