Ukraine
Humanitarian
Appeal
Ukraine
Humanitarian
Appeal
The DEC appeal has raised over £438 million and helped an estimated 8.2 million people affected by the conflict. This appeal will close for donations at the end of 2024 but donations will continue to be spent next year, providing food, shelter, cash support and other essential aid.
Social worker Yana (left) provides psychological support to people like Ivanna* (right) at a community centre in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, established by the local partner of DEC charity Christian Aid. Photo: Katya Moskalyuk/DEC
Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal
DEC charities are using the £159 million donated by the UK public to help people recover from the earthquakes. This appeal is now closed but programmes continue to help people on the long road to recovery.
Abeer welcomes her baby girl born safely in a DEC-funded hospital supported by ActionAid in northwest Syria. Photo: Sonya Al Ali Maara/ActionAid
PAKISTAN FLOODS APPEAL
Two years on, your donations have been spent to provide urgent relief to flood-affected families, helped communities rebuild their lives and livelihoods, and strengthened their resilience to face future climate disasters.
Sultana is able to grow food for her family after receiving cash support, wheat seeds and fertiliser from DEC charity CAFOD. Photo: Khaula Jamil/DEC
Recent DEC appeals
Aid workers unload equipment after the earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi, Indonesia in 2018. Image: Hariandi Hafid/British Red Cross
ABOUT THE DEC
The DEC brings together 15 leading aid charities to raise funds quickly and efficiently at times of crisis overseas. In these times of crisis, people in life-and-death situations need our help and our mission is to save, protect and rebuild lives through effective humanitarian response.
Pooling our resources to work as one, we are pivotal in co-ordinating the UK public's response to overseas disasters. In collaboration with our Rapid Response Network of national media and corporate partners, we raise the alarm to the UK public and set up easy ways for them to donate.
And we have immediate impact, getting aid to people who need it, fast.
Since our launch in 1963
77
appeals launched for major disasters overseas
£2.4 billion
raised, saving countless lives and rebuilding communities
