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Although HOPE International Development Agency focuses primarily on long-term solutions to poverty, emergency relief can be quickly delivered in response to a natural disaster.

Emergencies And Rehabilitation

HOPE International Development Agency initiatives throughout the developing world are community-driven and serve as the starting point for comprehensive transformation that reaches beyond the initial initiative. Here are a few examples specific to emergencies and rehabilitation:

• Medicines and medical supplies for hospitals and mobile medical clinics in Haiti
• Earthquake relief in Haiti, including clean water, shelter, emergency food rations, and many other necessities
• Emergency storm relief in Honduras
• Hurricane relief in the Philippines
• Emergency relief for displaced families in Sudan
• Emergency flood relief in Pakistan
• Tsunami rehabilitation in Sri Lanka

Read about some of our emergency and rehabilitation initiatives:

Helping Haitians Recover
Emergency Care Packages
Helping Sri Lankans Rebuild

See a list of countries where we are working

We are helping the children, the often overlooked victims of this deadly disease. In many cases, they are left parentless, hopeless, and are often ill themselves.

In recent years, earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters have wreaked havoc in various countries around the world. While terrible in their own right, these catastrophic events are particularly devastating when they occur in a developing nation where people are already struggling with poverty. When crisis situations arise in these regions, the lack of infrastructure and scarcity of resources can hamper efforts to bring affected people adequate relief. When an emergency occurs, we are able to react quickly and efficiently by connecting people affected by the disaster with those in a position to help. As such, we are able to channel the compassion and generosity of supporters to those who need it most, in an immediate, cost effective, and appropriate manner. With generous support from HOPE donors, many people who have been thrown unexpectedly into hopeless situations are given hope for the future. For over 36 years, HOPE International Development Agency has provided emergency relief to people in the developing world. With generous support from donors, we are able to offer immediate relief when families need it most.

Long-term development work always follows our emergency relief efforts.

The shift from a relief effort to an ongoing commitment to the people affected by a disaster is in keeping with HOPE’s aim to create self-sustaining communities. A similar transition from relief to development work took place after HOPE provided relief services for Ethiopian people during the famine in the early 1980’s. After supplying immediate relief for the people living in Southern Ethiopian villages, HOPE partnered with local communities to create a permanent clean water supply and has continued this work today.