Emergency response
When a crisis erupts, UNHCR teams are ready to deploy within 72 hours.
Photo: ©UNHCR/A.Krause
UNHCR maintains enough relief items to protect as many as 1,000,000 people in a single influx. Supplies are warehoused in seven strategic hubs – Copenhagen, Amman, Nairobi, Panama City, Douala, Dubai and Accra – to enable immediate transit to anywhere in the world.
When crisis erupts, UNHCR staff cover every angle of emergency response, from establishing camps in safe zones, and installing water and sanitation, to treating injured civilians who have fled their homes and coordinating vast supplies and transport, such as emergency airlifts.
Protection
Safeguarding the right to seek safety
Shelter
A place to feel safe and secure again
Water and sanitation
Saving lives with safe, clean water
Nutrition
A lifeline for hungry families
Emergency medical care
Life-saving care for the sick and injured
Basic survival kits
Restoring the things we take for granted