Help people in crisis and donate now: No matter how hard it gets, we’ll never give up.
The state of the world feels overwhelming right now.
Through conflict, flooding, food shortages and fires, families and communities are facing unimaginable hardship.
In Gaza, a lack of aid access that has lasted months is having devastating consequences for families.
“The clock is ticking, supplies are running dangerously low, making it harder and harder to respond,” says Gabriel Karlsson, the British Red Cross’s Middle East and North Africa country manager. “With food, fuel, medicine and medical equipment nearly gone, people are living on the brink.”
Through enormously difficult circumstances, our colleagues at the Palestine Red Crescent risk their lives working day in and day out in Gaza, with what little aid they can access.
It would be easy to give in to despair. But they haven’t given up, and we won’t either.
How the Red Cross is supporting in Gaza
Over the past 18 months, supported by the British Red Cross and wider Movement, 1,500 Palestine Red Crescent staff and volunteers have distributed 1.6 million emergency aid items, and are operating dozens of medical points across Gaza.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has helped more than 1.4 million people access clean water and provided one cooked meal a day to 25,000 people.
We know that aid alone will not solve this crisis, but it will save lives. We stand ready to move lifesaving supplies quickly and at scale the moment that aid routes reopen, and we will be there for as long as needed to help rebuild vital services and support people on what will be an extremely difficult road to recovery.
No matter how difficult or dangerous things get, the British Red Cross is ready to face challenges head on, whether it’s in Gaza or anywhere else in the world, bringing comfort and aid when all hope and humanity feels lost.
But we depend on support for what we do, so please donate, if you can.
Why your donation to the British Red Cross matters
Movement teams in 191 countries around the world, including here in the UK, are using their expertise and your donations to get help where it is most urgently needed.
We provide vital support like shelter, food, water and medicine to people in desperate need.
This includes reaching people in places that don’t always make the headlines, like Sudan, where 30 million people need urgent humanitarian assistance after two years of conflict.
But to do that, we urgently need your help.
The best way to help the British Red Cross is by making an online donation today. Whatever you can give will help us be here for humanity – responding to emergencies, planning for future ones, and building strong, resilient communities in the UK and around the world.
So, if you can donate to our appeal, please don’t wait.
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Why does the British Red Cross ask for monthly donations?
A regular gift helps us plan our work, because it helps us know how much income we’ll have in the future. It also helps you to plan your giving and gives you the flexibility to change it at any time. People need us right now, and we need you.
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How donating to the British Red Cross can help
Our teams in the UK and around the world are on the ground helping people in crisis. Your donation will help us provide:
- food, clean water, shelter and clothing in an emergency
- emergency response services
- refugee support services
- support to victims of modern slavery and trafficking
- wheelchair services
- help finding missing family
If you're able to support the British Red Cross with a one-off or monthly donation, you’ll know you’ve played a part in our work, every time you hear about it.
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