Emergency Appeal

Emergency Food Assistance

Families who have lost their home, their crops or their income are skipping meals tonight. An emergency food parcel bridges the weeks until they can provide again.

18,400

Emergency packs distributed

£40–£50

Cost per family parcel

72hrs

From funding to delivery

What's Happening

Disasters destroy food before they destroy anything else — standing crops, stored grain, market stalls and the roads that supply them all go at once.

Families who escaped with their lives took nothing else. Mothers dilute what little food they have to make it stretch, and malnutrition climbs fastest among children under five.

The most urgent need is simple: dry staples that need no cooking, and hot meals for those with no means to cook at all.

Emergency Food Assistance — relief work in the field

Our Response

Our field teams and local partners distribute within days of an emergency, delivering staple food parcels directly to families sheltering outside the worst-hit villages.

Where families have no cooking facilities, we run community kitchens serving hot meals daily. Every distribution is logged and verified by our team on the ground.

“He is not a believer whose stomach is filled while his neighbour goes hungry.”
Sunan al-Kubra, Al-Bayhaqi

Give to Emergency Food Assistance

£40£40 feeds a family of three in The Gambia.£50£50 feeds a family of four in Pakistan for a month.£250£250 funds a community kitchen for a day.

Donate Now Choose a custom amount ›

A family food parcel costs £40 in The Gambia and £50 in Pakistan. Funds are directed to wherever the need is greatest at the time of giving.

Emergency Food Assistance — response photograph 1

Emergency Food Assistance — response photograph 2

Emergency Food Assistance — response photograph 3

Emergency Food Assistance — response photograph 4

Other Live Appeals

All Emergency Appeals ›

Urgent Medical Cases

Fund medication, treatment or an urgent operation for a patient whose family cannot pay. Every case is verified by our field team before funds are released.

Emergency Housing & Shelter

Families displaced by disaster, conflict or eviction need a roof now. Your support funds emergency rent, shelter materials and safe temporary housing.