Reinforced plastic tarps are not only inexpensive, lightweight and waterproof — when extreme weather hits, they are lifesaving. Your gift will provide tarps to reinforce a refugee family’s shelter against torrential rains and wind.
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Cyclone and monsoon season threatens the lives of Rohingya refugees who escaped violence in Myanmar — but you can keep them safe. Your gift will provide tools and materials that will strengthen shelters to withstand the season’s extreme weather.
A water filter can protect against diseases like cholera and dysentery, which can become deadly to refugee children weak from their journeys. You can keep clean, safe water flowing — enabling families to stay healthy and rebuild their lives.
Toothpaste. Soap. Laundry detergent. Access to these basic products is often taken for granted — but not by a family that was forced to flee. Your gift can provide household items to keep refugees healthy from disease — and restore their dignity.
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— Antonio, who lost everything in Cyclone Idai
Striking southern Africa in March 2019, Cyclone Idai wreaked widespread havoc. Thanks to caring Americans, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, provided humanitarian assistance to Antonio’s family and other displaced people throughout Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. UNHCR delivered plastic tarps, tents, sleeping mats, kitchen sets, jerry cans for storing clean water, mosquito nets, solar lamps and soap.
Rohingya refugee Alin stands in front of her shelter with her young daughter Yamin. UNHCR supplied the reinforced plastic tarp and bamboo her family used to construct their new home in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp. Although they are safe from the violence in Myanmar, they still need protection from monsoon rains and landslides, which their weatherproof shelter provides.
Dhana Lal Tamang, 19, spreads out a reinforced plastic tarp for the roof of his temporary shelter, which the sheeting will protect from heavy rains and wind. Dhana is from the Sindhupalchowk district of Nepal, where a 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed and displaced thousands of women, men and children in 2015.
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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