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Our current emergency response: Israel Emergency - October 2023
We are currently living through Israel's most devastating crisis in living memory. As an international NGO with extensive experience coordinating large-scale humanitarian response missions around the world, we will do everything we can to meet the urgent and long-term needs of affected communities.
Together with local partners, we're:
- Coordinating humanitarian activities in shelters housing evacuees from Israel's Gaza border region
- Partnering directly with evacuated Kibbutz and Moshav communities to support their immediate and long-term needs
- Working together with partners to open temporary educational spaces so evacuated children can return to daily schooling
- Operating child friendly spaces where affected children can play, process, and finally have the chance to "just be kids" amid the chaos
- Distributing resilience kits with stress relief activities for children and families
- Training local teams on self-care and stress relief to "help the helpers" and ensure they can continue supporting evacuees
- Training local mental health specialists on emergency-specific psychosocial support, so they can best meet the urgent needs of affected people from Israel's south
- Supporting the needs of some of Israel's most vulnerable communities, including delivering protective spaces to Bedouin villages in Israel's south
Our plan is constantly updating as humanitarian needs on the ground develop. We are committed to supporting the urgent and long-term needs of communities living through devastating crisis. Please support today.
Background to the Emergency Response Fund
Since 2001, IsraAID’s specialist teams have responded to disasters in every corner of the world, providing emergency medical care, post-trauma mental health support, relief items, and water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions.
Our ability to bring that aid to communities in need relies on quickly galvanizing financial support, yet emergency response funding is often tied to media attention. Once the news cycle moves on, humanitarian organizations are forced to follow.
In 2017, IsraAID launched its Emergency Response Fund to shift this paradigm. The Emergency Fund gives us the flexibility to hit the ground running as quickly as possible, and it allows us to stay even when others move on.
Now, more than ever, with frequent crises occurring across the globe, we need your help to guarantee IsraAID’s rapid response to disasters and emergencies worldwide. Please donate today.
