For those men, women and children driven from their homes by conflict or hunger, the winter is anything but a wonderland. It is for many a time of misery and indignity, where simply getting through the day is a triumph.
Many will be housed in tents situated in remote and inhospitable areas, where winters bone is most keenly felt, and snow, sleet, and rain offer no respite to people who have already suffered greatly. Often lacking even the most basic items, a distribution of nutritious food, warm clothes, heaters, and fuel for stoves can be a life saver - keeping immune systems strong, and helping to stave off winter illnesses. Particularly COVID-19.
In Jordan and Lebanon there are in excess of 1.6 million refugees, Iraq has some 3 million internally displaced Iraqis living in temporary shelters, and a further quarter-of-a-million Syrian refugees, and in Yemen over 3 million are internally displaced (IDPs), with 80% of the population requiring humanitarian assistance.
Our 2020 Winter Crisis Appeal is a targeted response that is aimed at not simply giving refugees and internally displaced people from Yemen, Syria and Iraq more dignified lives, but life itself. For they exist on societys fringes getting little but crumbs from the table. If that. As such they are at greatest risk from sickness and death.
We need as many of you as possible to help with this effort. To help so many millions is far-fetched, but to help one family anyone can do. You can see below how it can only cost £15 to just help one family this winter. We need you to fundraise between your friends and family and donate whatever you can all afford. Together, we can make a huge difference to countless thousands. Thousands that have nothing! You'll be the one making a difference to their lives!
To make a fundraising page, simply click on "Start Fundraising" on this campaign page, then select "Doing your own thing" and "An Appeal for a Charity". You can then edit your page as you like thereafter. Please contact HRF Fundraising Staff Member Wajahat on 07403 355566 for fundraising footage and further guidance to raise as much funds as possible.
£60 can provide a family with enough food to last them up to a month
£50 can provide someone a complete set of warm winter clothes, including a jacket
£50 will equip a family with a heater to keep their tent warm
£25 will purchase critical gas heating cylinders for a family
£15 will purchase a warm winter blanket
£15 will keep a family tent warm & stove running with 40 litres of fuel.
* Charities pay a small fee for our service. Find out how much it is and what we do for it.
