Every year, brutal winter conditions batter vulnerable communities around the world. As the winter months bring freezing conditions, many families must make difficult decisions – will they put food on the table today or will they buy gas to fuel their heaters?
This year, these decisions are being thrown into sharper focus for millions of people across the world who have been displaced from their homes amid natural disasters and conflict.
Across the Middle East and Asia, where homes tend to be built to withstand scorching summers, many families are often ill-prepared for the realities of winter. Storms and blizzards can be brutal and devastating.
In 2023, Islamic Relief was able to deliver winter essentials to more than 475,000 people in 18
countries, helping them survive the winter.
The support we provided included distributing thermal clothing to families in Albania and Bangladesh. We renovated and winter-proofed houses in Chechnya and distributed tents in Nepal. We delivered food to hungry communities in Kosova and North Macedonia.
This year, more is needed.
With deadly crises forcing millions to flee their homes, families from Lebanon to Syria, from Yemen to Palestine, will struggle even more as temperatures plummet.
In Gaza and Lebanon especially, hundreds of thousands of people face a brutal winter in makeshift shelters, not knowing where their next meal will be coming from.
They face a struggle to feed themselves, a struggle to keep warm and a struggle to survive.
We won’t let them struggle alone.
This winter, your donation will be a lifeline to families in crisis.
With your support, Islamic Relief will help more people than ever to survive the winter. Expanding our programme, this winter we will reach vulnerable individuals in 19 countries
Whether they need food, hygiene items, supplies to repair their shelter, firewood– or cash or vouchers to buy warm clothes, your support can mean their survival.
With your generous donations, we will again protect families from the worst of winter: Donate to our Winter Appeal now.
