CAAP’s Disaster Relief Fund
Our Disaster Relief Fund was created as a response to global humanitarian and environmental crises. This fund has supported a variety of international and domestic campaigns for disaster relief and recovery. Some of our larger campaigns have reacted to crises in Syria, Haiti, Lebanon, Gaza, and Japan, and not only focus on immediate relief but also aid with long-term recovery.
For families in Lebanon, life changed overnight. Communities are grieving loved ones as countless families are forced from their homes with only what they can carry. Many, including young children and the elderly, are left with no choice but to sleep on the streets.
We must urgently do what we can to offer relief.
100% of your donation to the Center for Arab American Philanthropy’s (CAAP) Disaster Relief Fund will support the emergency relief efforts of your choice of three on-the-ground organizations:
- Amel Association (عامل): A long-standing nonsectarian, nonpartisan organization that has launched an emergency response effort providing urgent medical support, hygiene kits, food assistance, mental health care, and support for elderly people.
- Ajialouna: Has served vulnerable communities in Lebanon for 30 years. Their urgent response is providing emergency life-saving resources, including food, water and other relief to displaced families.
- 1for3: Established in 2013, this nonprofit recently expanded its work to southern Lebanon. Through its urgent response efforts, it is providing medical care and essential resources to hard-to-reach communities through on-staff nurses and community health workers.
With the needs of displaced families growing more urgent by the minute, timely support can make the difference between life and death. Please join us in ensuring they are not left to face this alone.
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Escalating violence in Sudan is forcing millions from their homes and tearing families apart. Tens of thousands of these families are fleeing mass killings in El Fasher and seeking safety in neighboring Tawila. They are arriving with nothing. Together, we can offer support.
100% of your donation to the Center for Arab American Philanthropy’s (CAAP) Disaster Relief Fund, with a 50-cent match for every dollar from CAAP, will directly support the on-the-ground efforts of the Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA), which is providing emergency medical care, food, clean water and shelter:
- $50 provides emergency food for one family
- $100 treats three malnourished children
- $250 provides clean water for 25 families
- $500 supports one SAPA medical clinic for a day
SAPA’s mobile clinics, emergency aid stations and central kitchens are stretched beyond capacity. Your support can deliver life-saving aid to families who have lost everything.
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100% of your donation to our Gaza relief efforts will support your choice of:
- Food and Water: Distributing hot meals, food parcels, formula milk and clean drinking water to families.
- Medical Response: Deploying lifesaving medical supplies and support to overstretched health facilities. UPA’s Fortifying the Palestinian Medical Sector (FPMS) initiative is refurbishing, operationalizing and equipping medical centers in Gaza.
- Essential Resources: Delivering hygiene kits, sleeping bags and other resources to displaced families.
- Medical Response: Continuing to provide medical and health support through four remaining health centers and 92 mobile medical teams. UNRWA is also expanding services in the South to respond to the growing needs of displaced families from Gaza City.
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH): Supplying clean water through wells, desalination systems, water trucks and bottled water. UNRWA also maintains hygiene in shelters with cleaning supplies, community-based solid waste management and pest control.
- Psychosocial Support: Offering psychological first aid, case management and psychosocial services. To date, 237,736 displaced persons have been reached with these services.
- Education: Providing learning opportunities for children through 455 Temporary Learning Spaces (TLSs).
- Medical Response: Operating primary healthcare centers in Khan Younis, Deir Al Balah and Gaza City, providing pediatrics, internal medicine, wound care and surgery.
- Food: Distributing fresh produce and food baskets to displaced families in Khan Younis and central Gaza.
- Water: Delivering truckloads of safe drinking water to shelters and neighborhoods cut off from the regular supply in Gaza City, Deir Al Balah and Khan Younis.
- Psychosocial Support: Offering programs that help children learn, heal and cope during crisis.
- Local Farmers: Supporting farmers in Gaza with seeds, tools and other resources to restart food production.
- Water: Providing safe water and sanitation services
- Psychosocial Support: Delivering psychological first aid and related support, including counseling to survivors of violence.