The Humanitarian Coalition members are taking care of basic survival needs and helping people rebuild their lives when their homes, schools and livelihoods have been devastated by a disaster. Learn more about these crises and meet people who have benefited from your support.
Up until then, Maria, 74, and Vladimir, 84, had led a quiet life in the city of Mykolaiv in Ukraine.
Bakhtavar Bibi, a 60 year old widow, remembers the day an earthquake struck and destroyed her house.
Tropical storm Ana caused for thousands to be displaced in Malawi. Mary, a 42-year-old single mother, was one of them.
“I felt like there was a voice in my head telling me to run and ask the children to follow me (…).” Wesnotte Simeus, a 32-year-old mother of five, painfully recalls the day she had to leave her house during the earthquake.
Monique Guerrier, a 46-year-old Haitian mother of four clearly remembers the day she had to leave home.
Ema lost her appetite. She felt fearful and overwhelmed. She and her children suffered from anxiety for months after the earthquake in Haiti in August 2021.
Clervil Emilienne was working as a housemaid for a family in the town of Camp Perrin when the earthquake changed her life forever.
“Many children died on the way,” says *Hanan – an Ethiopian university student – of their nightmarish flight from violence.
Disease was not the only killer during the second wave of COVID-19 in India last spring. Lockdowns forced people, many already living on the edge, out of work and into poverty and hunger.
The explosion in the port of Beirut just made things worse for Malak’s family. To cope with their increased financial stress, they had to reduce their meat intake from once a week to only every few months.
Islamic Relief identified families who were struggling because of the impacts of COVID-19 (in India) and provided them with food supplies and hygiene kits.
Arun did not catch COVID-19 during the devastating second wave in India, but the pandemic hit him hard in other ways.