Urgent appeal

Children can lose everything when disaster strikes.

Children’s lives can change in an instant when they’re forced from home by conflict, persecution or natural disasters.

Imagine raising your children in a war zone. Or in a place where unpredictable weather can kill. You’d do anything to keep your family safe from harm. But for many families in the world’s most dangerous places that’s not always possible.

Leaving everything behind, children like 13-year-old Yar – whose home in South Sudan was destroyed by floods – must flee to safety. Hungry, thirsty and exposed to the elements, displaced children urgently need your help to survive.

Please help children like Yar survive disaster and build a brighter future by giving what you can today.

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How your money can help

Children like Yar urgently need your help. Your gift today could:

Help families survive disaster, providing food, water, sanitation and shelter

Provide children with school packs full of pens, books and other learning tools

Build communities’ resilience with child protection, farming and business skills

Your gift today could change children’s lives for good.

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“We had no desks or chairs in our classrooms. We had to sit on tins we’d bring from home.”

Yar

age 10, from South Sudan

Help children survive and build brighter futures

Impact of Hurricane Iota in Colombia © 2020 World Vision

Over 100 million people have been forcibly displaced – and many are children

Millions of families have been forced to flee their homes to escape conflict and other disasters. Like those impacted by the devastating earthquakes in Syria, and those in South Sudan who have faced conflict and now flooding.

Children stand amid wreckage after Hurricane ETA © 2020 World Vision

Displaced children are still in danger every day

Life in a displacement camp is hard. Most children who survive the immediate threats of starvation, dehydration and disease can’t go to school. And many are forced into child labour or early marriage.

A section of houses that have submerged by Hurricane ETA, Honduras. © 2020 World Vision

Climate change means disasters hit harder and more often

Natural disasters are more frequent, violent and unpredictable. Some of the world’s poorest people live in climate “hotspots”, where disaster can stack upon disaster, pushing more people deeper into poverty.

Please donate now to save lives

With your help, we can provide water, food, sanitation and shelter when disaster strikes. Helping children survive and get back to school, and supporting communities to become more resilient to disaster.

Can you help?

For more than 70 years, thanks to people like you, we’ve been reaching millions of people affected by disasters. Helping them survive, recover and become more resilient. Tackling the root causes of poverty so families can build brighter futures.

This work is more important now than ever.

The number of natural disasters has nearly doubled in the last 20 years. And people in the world’s hardest places are 15 times more vulnerable to the consequences of climate change.

Your gift today could keep children safe and help them protect themselves against future disasters.

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