| Show your compassion for the 70+ million people seeking a place to call home ▸ |
World Refugee Day is Saturday, June 20th. It’s a day to remember that more than 70 million people in the world right now have been forcibly displaced from their homes, some of them multiple times. People fleeing from places like Venezuela, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Myanmar, Somalia are seeking refuge, and more than 12 million from Syria, where women and children are an overwhelming 80% of the refugee population. Today, the threat of COVID‑19 has made life even more dangerous and difficult for people living in temporary shelter or refugee camps. Your gift today to our COVID‑19 Resilience Fund can help provide emergency supplies, food, clean water and urgently needed support to refugees and other vulnerable communities during this crisis and beyond. 
(Riohacha, Colombia) Oriana, 43, (with her daughter, Joelbi, 17), fled to Colombia after the Venezuelan hospital where she worked was shut down, leaving her unable to feed her family. Living in a makeshift shelter, they continue to seek opportunities for a better future.
In Colombia, pandemic lockdown has made already scarce jobs disappear for Venezuelan migrants. It’s a humanitarian crisis now considered to be the worst in the Western Hemisphere. We’re adapting our emergency cash program so that we can still safely deliver assistance both digitally and door-to-door, and distributing hygiene kits to prevent virus spread. The refugee crisis is a human crisis. Behind the statistics are people filled with unique life experiences and dreams for the future. They are mothers longing to return home, fathers yearning to work again, children searching for a childhood. And with support from people like you, Mercy Corps is responding to help refugees, displaced people and other vulnerable communities around the world. We provide urgent resources like cash, food, water and shelter — combined with ongoing services like youth centers, business recovery and life skills training — to build a future where everyone can prosper. This World Refugee Day, show your compassion for the more than 70 million people seeking a safe and healthy place to call home. Please give what you can before midnight on June 20. Your generosity has the power to change lives. Thank you for being a humanitarian, and for knowing that a better world is possible. With gratitude, Christy Delafield Mercy Corps Director of Communications |
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