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A new wave of violence and fighting in Myanmar is forcing people to flee. The earthquake in March has significantly worsened conditions on the ground.
More than 200,000 people have been internally displaced since the start of February. Thousands more are fleeing across borders into neighbouring countries. The fighting is causing death, displacement, and disruption to critical services like healthcare and telecommunications networks.
This is in addition to 370,000 people who had already been displaced in Myanmar by the end of 2020 and remain in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
Families are fleeing to safety with nothing.
We need your help now.
UNHCR’s emergency teams are working around the clock to provide life-saving assistance and to protect those forced to flee their homes. Working together with our partners and local communities, we are:
- Distributing core relief items like mosquito nets, soap and sleeping mats
- Providing critical shelter materials such as tents, tarpaulins and bamboo poles to give people a safe place to sleep
We are assisting as many people as possible, but we must do more. In addition to the immediate suffering from the latest bout of violence, this crisis may have longer-term impacts for the over one million refugees from Myanmar already in exile hoping to return to their homeland.
We urgently need to scale up our supplies so that we are ready to respond as the situation worsens.
Please help today so that we can reach families in need.
How would you like 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.
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].
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.
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.
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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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