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.  

Help meet the emergency needs of families struggling to survive in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Honduras.

Help surviving families in Myanmar rebuild their lives.

Prevent starvation among children in Ethiopia.

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.

For over thirty-eight 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.