What happens after a disaster appeal
The first 72 hours are about water and shelter. The next six months are about rebuilding homes, schools and livelihoods with local partners.
Choose a project and follow it with photos and progress updates from the field until the work is finished.
The first 72 hours are about water and shelter. The next six months are about rebuilding homes, schools and livelihoods with local partners.
Local committees choose the well sites, train repair teams and collect small fees that keep the pumps running for a decade.
In eighteen months, supporters funded three classrooms, forty desks and two teachers' salaries for a village school that used to teach under a tree.
From the 7 am food bank shift to an afternoon reading club, one Saturday volunteer shows us what a day of help looks like.
Ninety cents of every dollar reaches projects, and you see exactly what your gift achieved.
More than 1,400 volunteers sort food parcels, tutor children and walk shelter dogs every week.
Our accounts are independently audited every year and published in full on this site.
Receive a tax receipt seconds after every gift, plus a yearly summary each January.
See photos, project updates and numbers from the exact project your gift funded.
We work through community organisations in 36 communities, led by people who live there.
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Volunteers, partners and families at the projects your gifts paid for this year.
Project updates, volunteer stories and the reports that show what your support achieved.
One finished project, one volunteer story and one way to help, in a five-minute read.
Long-term work in water, education and food, plus fast help when disaster strikes.
Wells built with villages and kept running by trained local committees for at least ten years.
Emergency teams deliver water, shelter kits and medical supplies within 72 hours of a disaster.
Give one Saturday or a weekly shift at food banks, schools and animal shelters nearby.