Find out how donations to the appeal helped people recover from the disaster.

World Humanitarian Day is an international day dedicated to honouring humanitarian workers and celebrating the incredible work they do across the world. It is also a moment to pay tribute to aid workers who have lost their lives trying to help others.

In the last 60 years the DEC has raised £2.4 billion to respond to earthquakes and tsunamis, hunger and drought, the impacts of conflict and climate change and reached millions of people in humanitarian need.