Report from the Field: Humanitarian Aid Projects
How You’re Saving Lives Around the World
How You’re Saving Lives Around the World
When a disaster strikes, Project HOPE responds — through your generous support — by rushing emergency medicine and medical supplies into the hot zone. Each $1 you give sends $105 worth of supplies to save lives.
Case File 1: The Philippines. When Typhoon Hagupit hit the Philippines a few months ago, massive waves crashed into coastal villages, tearing buildings apart, driving people from their homes and leaving them vulnerable to landslides, contaminated water, diseases and injuries.
To save lives, you helped send tens of thousands of dollars in emergency medicine and medical supplies. Items like bandages, test equipment, exam gloves, gauze sponges, portable generators and much more.
This was the second major typhoon to hit the Philippines in just over a year. In November 2013, when Typhoon Haiyan struck, you helped then, too. Since that time, you’ve enabled us to send a total of $24 million in medicine and supplies, and you helped more than 270,000 victims get treatment and care.
Case File 2: Syrian Refugee Crisis. It’s one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Syrian people have been driven from their homes, and have been forced to cross borders into neighboring countries. They’re fleeing for their lives, desperately trying to reach refugee camps.
But in the camps, children come down with measles and polio. Even worse, diseases like cholera and other illnesses from sewage and bad water spread fast and turn deadly.
Your generous support has enabled Project HOPE to be one of the organizations responding to this vast need. So far, you have helped to send $107 million in medicine and medical supplies to 147 refugee camps. To this point, some 217,000 refugees have gotten help, but there is much more to do in this growing crisis.
