UNHCR responds to a new crisis every 10 days — but you don’t hear about all of them. Help UNHCR prepare for the crises the world cannot predict.
We live in an increasingly volatile world, where new emergencies can escalate without warning and long-running crises continue to deepen. At the same time, reductions in foreign aid are placing unprecedented pressure on humanitarian response, stretching resources just as needs are growing. UNHCR responds to emergencies around the world, whether they make the headlines or not.
In 2025 alone, UNHCR teams provided lifesaving protection and assistance across some of the world’s most challenging crises. We supported families fleeing renewed violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and protected survivors in the wake of a devastating earthquake in Myanmar. Meanwhile, ongoing conflict in Sudan and intensified attacks in Ukraine drove repeated displacement, increasing the vulnerability of millions of people already forced from their homes.
By supporting UK for UNHCR’s Emergency Fund, you can play a practical and visible role in the emergency response, helping drive UNHCR’s readiness, rapid deployment and sustained protection for people forced to flee. More than a donation, your gift is an investment in preparedness, resilience and rapid action, ensuring UNHCR can act quickly when lives are at risk, respond wherever needs are greatest and continue providing support long after public attention has moved elsewhere.
Your support could enable UNHCR to:
Deploy life-saving relief items: Emergency stockpiles can be released within hours, providing families with essential items such as blankets, hygiene kits, solar lamps, sleeping mats, kitchen sets and shelter materials.
Conduct real-time protection monitoring: UNHCR teams rapidly identify those most at risk, including unaccompanied children, pregnant women, older people, survivors of violence and people with disabilities.
Provide immediate cash assistance: Cash support enables families to meet their most urgent needs with dignity, whether that means buying food, medicine, transport, warm clothing or other essentials.
Sustain assistance over time: Flexible funding helps ensure people affected by underreported and underfunded crises continue to receive protection and support, even when global attention has moved elsewhere.
In Lebanon, flexible funding has helped UNHCR respond to escalating hostilities and displacement in the region. With resources already available, UNHCR was able to support displaced people quickly and at scale, including by distributing essential relief items, providing emergency cash assistance, reaching people with psychosocial support and helping communities access protection services.
This is the power of flexible support, preparedness before a crisis, rapid response when it hits and sustained protection as families begin to recover.
By supporting UK for UNHCR’s Emergency Fund, you can help ensure that when the next crisis strikes, wherever it happens, and whether or not the world is watching, UNHCR is ready to respond.
