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“Now, more than ever, Lebanon needs our support.”
-UNHCR’s @KellyTClements calls for increased support for the country as it grapples with a devastating economic crisis.
What is it like responding to a humanitarian emergency as an aid worker?
📱Watch this video to join our team as they try to reach people in Syria affected by the devastating earthquakes this week:w
"I encourage many women to work hard to create something.
It helps cope with the stress and hardship of living in displacement."
Freweyni is an Ethiopian refugee in Sudan, where she's helping women in her camp start their own businesses like she did. ow.ly/QPmI50MJGzj
Needs are immense in Türkiye and Syria in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes.
Help provide emergency relief to the earthquake victims: unh.cr/63e1393d14
It’s been a week since the catastrophic earthquake in Türkiye and Syria. We at UNHCR join families and friends in mourning the victims. We also continue to support the survivors, especially those whose loved ones are still missing, as tireless rescuers keep trying to save lives.
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These are some of the emergency relief items we are providing to the earthquake survivors in Türkiye and Syria.
Please help us deliver if you can: unh.cr/63e1393d14
NEWS: A dozen UNHCR trucks filled with 2,000 emergency relief items have arrived in northwest Syria. This is much-needed support, in addition to what has been distributed by partners since the devastating earthquakes struck on Monday.
Donate: unh.cr/63e1393d14
Hoping for peace.
In Ethiopia, a November peace agreement means people displaced by the conflict in northern regions can once again think about home and the future. unhcr.org/news/stories/2…
🚨 WATCH: UNHCR airlifts urgent shipment from its global stockpile in Dubai to help survivors of the devastating earthquakes this week.
Help us continue our work:unh.cr/63e1393d14dB
⚠️ Alert ⚠️
Devastating earthquakes have affected families in Türkiye and Syria.
The earthquakes come in the midst of harsh winter weather.
Please support now. unh.cr/63e1393d14
Tents.
Blankets.
Mattresses.
Warm clothing.
Cooking sets.
These are some of the items we’re providing in the region affected by the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. Please help provide emergency relief to the earthquake victims: unh.cr/63e1393d14
🚨Syria: Before the devastating earthquakes this week, there were more than 6.8 million people already internally displaced in country.
”They have been hit the hardest,” UNHCR’s Representative to the country, Sivanka Dhanapala, said from Damascus.p
Devastating earthquakes.
Families who lost their homes.
Some displaced once again.
Bana from
@UNHCRinSYRIA
shares how UNHCR is helping. Despite many challenges, we are trying to reach those in need.
Please support if you can: unh.cr/63e1393d14
She fled to Ethiopia from Eritrea.
She was forced to flee again when conflict broke out in the Tigray region.
She was subjected to horrific sexual violence.
She finally found safety in a refugee site where she continues to heal.
Now, she can hope again: ow.ly/13BB50MOZQy
I am in #Lebanon where I met Fatima & her family again.
I met them in 2021 during my last visit to the country.
As most #refugee & Lebanese families, they can't make ends meet.
The economic crisis has taken a toll on everyone.
We must continue to stand with Lebanon.
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency “6.8 million people are already internally displaced in the country, and this was before the earthquake. These are people who are living in very difficult conditions, and of course, they have been hit the hardest.”
~ Representative of @UNHCRinSYRIA ow.ly/e5rp50MPxvm
People living in Afghanistan's Bamyan province are used to harsh winters.
This year has been the coldest in over a decade, and the brutal weather has hit the poorest and most vulnerable, like Fatima*, hard. ow.ly/3P8a50MJGAL
After visiting Burundi this week, High Commissioner for Refugees @FilippoGrandi expressed appreciation for the country's stabilization efforts and emphasized UNHCR’s commitment to supporting refugees returning home and rebuilding their lives.
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Stand with Türkiye and Syria at this difficult time. Your urgent response is needed to save lives.
Please support now. unh.cr/63e1393d14
We must pursue durable solutions for Burundian refugees, especially voluntary repatriation. In Burundi, I met some of the more than 200,000 who have returned since 2017. We will work with the government, host countries and partners to ensure that returns are safe and sustainable.
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency In Syria, we are distributing emergency supplies to people affected by the deadly earthquake, including thermal blankets, mattresses, and other life-saving items.
Please support our emergency relief efforts if you can: unh.cr/63e1393d14
“This is personal”.
@YusraMardini's home country of Syria has been devastated by the same earthquakes that hit Türkiye. Help us provide basic supplies: unh.cr/63e66fb038
“We can only think about this minute now.”
Mazen recounts the horrors he faced in Aleppo alongside his family as they braced for the earthquakes. Our teams are on the ground to help people like Mazen, but we need your support. unh.cr/63e1393d14
The first UN cross-border aid convoy successfully reached north-west Syria on Thursday, after the devastating earthquakes cut off supply lines.
6 trucks have delivered vital assistance, including shelter materials, blankets, hygiene kits & more. news.un.org/en/story/2023/…
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Destroyed lives.
Collapsed homes.
Ruined infrastructure.
In the aftermath of the deadly earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, families urgently need relief items and shelter. Please help if you can: unh.cr/63e1393d14
Needs are immense in Türkiye and Syria in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes.
You can help @Refugees provide life-saving emergency relief to the victims of this disaster: unh.cr/63e1393d14
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency I have visited Türkiye & Syria many times.
I will never forget the solidarity of people who opened their homes & hearts to millions of displaced people.
Now those homes have been destroyed & those hearts are breaking.
It’s time to stand up for the people of Türkiye and Syria.
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency In the aftermath of the deadly earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, UNHCR teams are on the ground and ready to respond where needed. You can help: unh.cr/63e1393d14
We are responding to the deadly earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria that have claimed thousands of lives and caused untold destruction to homes and infrastructure across the region.
Please help provide emergency relief to the earthquake victims if you can: unh.cr/63e1393d14
Severe winter storms currently sweeping through the region are compounding the misery for earthquake survivors in Türkiye and Syria.
Families urgently need life-saving shelter and assistance.
You can help: unh.cr/63e1393d14
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Needs are immense in Türkiye and Syria in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes.
Help provide emergency relief to the earthquake victims: unh.cr/63e1393d14
Your donation can provide refugees and local communities affected by the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria with emergency support.
Please help if you can: unh.cr/63e1393d14
Meet dynamic Suzan, one of 400 #refugee teachers recruited to teach in public schools in @Kurdistan. She now teaches both refugees & local children.
Despite challenges, she joins fellow teachers from the local community to help deliver a better education for all children. #GCR
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Thanks President @SahleWorkZewde and Deputy PM @DemekeHasen for our good discussions. Ethiopia needs urgent, strong international support for a sustainable peace in the North and address other challenges including drought, internal displacement and hosting over 850,000 refugees.
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency After the peace agreement, humanitarian agencies can deliver more aid in areas of Northern Ethiopia impacted by conflict. I met displaced people in Mekelle and Eritrean refugees in the Dabat area. UNHCR supports both in cooperation with the authorities, UN and NGO partners.
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency The @UN has raced to respond to the devastating earthquake that struck Türkiye & Syria.
That's why I have asked @UNReliefChief to travel to affected areas this weekend.
By early next week, we'll launch a flash appeal for donor support for those affected in Syria.
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Homes destroyed. Lives forever shattered. And winter rages on.
These families will never be the same. UNHCR teams are on the ground and responding in the aftermath of the deadly earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria.
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Devastating earthquakes.
Families who lost their homes.
Some displaced once again.
Bana from @UNHCRinSYRIA shares how UNHCR is helping. Despite many challenges, we are trying to reach those in need.
Please support if you can: unh.cr/63e1393d14
"Global leadership begins at home, and supporting refugees outside of Europe must not undermine and can never be a substitute for EU States’ own asylum obligations."
- High Commissioner @FilippoGrandi on today's Special European Council. #EUCO
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Local and refugee communities are working hand in hand to respond to the disaster in Türkiye. They need your support. unh.cr/63e1393d14
Devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria destroyed people’s lives, homes and local infrastructure.
Families urgently need relief items and shelter.
You can help UNHCR provide emergency items: unh.cr/63e1393d14
Needs are immense in Türkiye and Syria in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes.
Help provide emergency relief to the earthquake victims: unh.cr/63e1393d14
Retweeted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Severe winter storms currently sweeping through the region are compounding the misery for earthquake survivors in Türkiye and Syria.
Families urgently need life-saving shelter and assistance.
You can help: unh.cr/63e1393d14
We are responding to the deadly earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria that have claimed thousands of lives and caused untold destruction to homes and infrastructure across the region
Please help provide emergency relief to the earthquake victims if you can: unh.cr/63e1393d14
Needs are immense in Türkiye and Syria in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes.
Help provide emergency relief to the earthquake victims: unh.cr/63e1393d14
More than 6.8 million displaced people inside Syria were already struggling to survive and protect their families.
They have to cope with the added devastation of the deadly earthquakes.
They need support now more than ever. unh.cr/63e1393d14
The earthquakes in Kahramanmaras, Türkiye, impacted a region of 15 million people, of whom 1,7 million are Syrians under temporary protection.
We’re on the ground, ready to provide emergency relief to the earthquake victims.
You can help: unh.cr/63e1393d14
Türkiye has generously hosted the world’s largest refugee population since 2014, including 3.7 million Syrians. Almost half are children. They need your help now more than ever. unh.cr/63e1393d14
Tents.
Blankets.
Mattresses.
Warm clothing.
Cooking sets.
These are some of the items we’re providing in the region affected by the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. Please help provide emergency relief to the earthquake victims: unh.cr/63e1393d14
"They are living side by side with Turkish citizens in the same buildings that have collapsed. They are participating in the rescue as volunteers."
~Philippe Leclerc @UNHCRTurkiye on impact of earthquakes on Syrian refugees & host communities in Türkiye ow.ly/Fq7X50MMic5
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