Create a World where Children Can Be Safe From Disasters
War, political instability, and natural disasters like storms and COVID-19 upend lives.
The world’s disasters are increasing, exacerbated by global crises.
The Survival Fund helps child survivors and their families in the aftermath of disasters as well as communities that are exceptionally prone to disasters before they strike.
LEBANON CRISIS RESPONSE
The escalating conflict in Lebanon is forcing families to desperately seek safety. With the conflict crisis spreading from the South to Beirut, Bekaa and beyond, 1.7 million children living in Lebanon face death, injury, and forced displacement. Schools have closed, and are being repurposed into temporary shelters for thousands of internally displaced people. More than 2,000 people have been killed including children and women. Over 6,000 have been injured and over a million people have been displaced. There are children, who are going up to 24 hours without food, pregnant women sleeping on floors without a mattress or blanket in the cold weather, and nursing mothers so hungry that they cannot produce milk for their babies.
You can help children and families caught in the crossfire of this conflict by:
- Providing essential items to displaced families, including clean water, hot meals, hygiene kits, and warm clothing for the coming winter
- Providing rapid emergency supplies (i.e. mattresses, blankets) to help families replace essential items after losing their homes
- Providing psychosocial support to children experiencing anxiety and distress due to the escalation of violence, and equipping parents to support their children's emotional needs
- Educational materials for children whose education has been disrupted by displacement
TYPHOON YAGI EMERGENCY RESPONSE
On 7 September, Typhoon Yagi, the most powerful storm to hit the South China Sea in 30 years, made landfall in northern Vietnam, causing widespread devastation across Southeast Asia. The typhoon has claimed over 500 lives, injured thousands, left hundreds of thousands displaced, and caused tremendous damage to infrastructure, homes, schools, and healthcare facilities. At least 6 million children have been affected and their access to clean water, education, health services, food, and shelter has been compromised.
World Vision aims to reach 60,000 people in affected districts of 4 target provinces of Yen Bai, Hai Phong, Hoa Binh, and Thanh Hoa in Vietnam and 25,000 affected people in Myanmar. Save lives now.
You can support children and families in distress to meet their immediate needs by providing:
- Emergency food aid
- Production inputs such as seeds, fertilizer, and veterinary services, to meet basic food needs and facilitate livelihood recovery
- Water treatment kits for access to clean water, and repair of water facilities
- Dignity kits to help households maintain hygiene
- Essential non-food items, including blankets, mosquito nets, cookware, learning kits and jackets
- Temporary Shelter and construction kits for repair of damaged houses
- Multi-purpose cash transfers to alleviate the impact of the typhoon
- Psychological first aid
NEPAL FLOODS & LANDSLIDES EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Nepal has been hit by severe floods and landslides after torrential rains began on September 26, 2024, its heaviest rainfall in 54 years, inundating settlements across various districts in Nepal as river waters overflowed. The disaster has claimed more than 200 lives. More than 100 people are injured or missing. Homes, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure are severely damaged. Schools in flood-affected areas are closed, and major highways are blocked due to landslides. World Vision has begun urgent relief and recovery efforts to provide immediate relief to 700 flood-affected households in the severely affected districts of Sindhuli and Rautahat. You can support children and families in distress to meet their immediate needs by providing:
- Emergency food aid
- Temporary Shelter and construction kits for repair of damaged houses
- Hygiene kits to help households maintain hygiene
- Essential non-food items, including blankets and mosquito nets
- Educational supplies for children
- Restoration of damaged school wells and facilities
GLOBAL HUNGER RESPONSE
There’s enough food to go around the world, yet it does not reach every child. The number of children dying from hunger has declined every decade since the 80s. Now it’s back on the rise with spiraling food costs. Children are bearing the brunt of an unequal global food system further exacerbated by conflict and climate change. You can make way for a world where there’s enough on every child’s plate. We are supporting children, families, and communities struck by conflict in Myanmar, as well as those in Africa especially in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Ethiopia who are facing the looming threat of famine. Your support to the Global Hunger Response will provide children and their families with:
- Access to food (e.g. school lunches, emergency meals)
- Emergency health and nutrition services (i.e. nutrition screening and lifesaving medicines)
- Protection and resilience-building activities (i.e. seeds and agricultural inputs for kitchen gardens) etc.
We work with communities to fight climate change to combat natural disasters as well as develop disaster preparedness plans that map out local threats and identify how to save lives and protect property.
Within 24 to 72 hours of the disaster, our global rapid response team is on the ground, making assessments and beginning to provide emergency relief.
We help families stabilise in the long-term by establishing permanent housing, sustainable clean water, food security, access to quality education and healthcare, and recovery loans to rebuild livelihoods and restore children's sense of security.
Your monthly giving will ensure that children can receive timely aid in times of disasters.
World Vision works in hardest-to-reach places, responding with life-saving speed when disaster strikes.