With limited access to oral healthcare, refugees are vulnerable to chronic diseases, including diabetes, which is associated with gum disease. Starting at just $50, you can provide basic dental care services.
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Losing one’s glasses is often an easily remedied inconvenience. But impaired vision can keep refugees from caring for their families or doing well in school. You can help a refugee see a brighter future with a new pair of glasses.
"Basic" doesn't begin to describe the importance of the healthcare you can provide. "Lifesaving" is a far better term. You can ensure that refugees visiting clinics have access to medicine — and a chance to rebuild their lives.
A bite from a malaria-infected mosquito doesn’t have to be a death sentence — even in a country prone to outbreaks. Your gift will save a life by helping to provide treatment to a sick refugee girl or boy.
Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease in the world today. Left untreated, gum disease can lead to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Despite the lifetime consequences resulting from a lack of access to oral healthcare, it often takes a backseat to emergency medical needs. That's why, thanks to generous donor support, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, works to ensure that refugees get the dental care they need.
UNHCR and its partners bring dental students from Cairo’s Ain Shams University to provide Sudanese refugees living in Egypt with much-needed oral healthcare. Caring Americans make these innovative programs possible.
Syrian refugee siblings Mirna and Ridhuan receive much needed dental care — and even have fun with balloons! — at a UNHCR-supported health clinic in Jordan. Generous donor support puts smiles on these children's faces.
We promise to honor your generosity and use your donation in the most effective way possible to help refugees. The catalog items shown reflect periodic surveys of the countries UNHCR operates in and represent both the need and price of critical aid items. Although each item is representative of the gift category in which it appears, donations will be used to provide assistance where it is needed most.
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