In this unprecedented time of crisis for refugees looking for a better life, here are a few different ways you can make a difference. These organizations all focus on improving the lives of people around the world that are fleeing from war, oppression, poverty, or natural disasters.
The IRC focuses on the urgent needs of families caught in this unprecedented crisis. Your support can help expand and deepen their emergency response in Europe; strengthen long-term programs in the Middle East and other regions; focus international political attention on the refugee crisis; and provide critical support to families being resettled in the U.S.
Doctors Without Borders help people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care. For Doctors Without Borders, the ability to respond quickly to medical humanitarian emergencies is crucial to saving more lives. Unrestricted funds allow us to allocate our resources most efficiently and where the needs are greatest.
Save the Children helps refugees in several ways, by providing emergency aid and health care and rebuilding damaged classrooms and supporting schools, inside Syria and in neighboring countries. The organization supports 55 schools in northern Syria. It also supports six health-care facilities that provide medical services and 24-hour emergency care for pregnant women inside Syria. It runs child-friendly spaces for children affected by the conflict as well, which provide a sense of normalcy.” New York Times, Dec 25, 2015
For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country. Whether it’s achieving full equality for LGBT people, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age of widespread government surveillance, ending mass incarceration, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach.
The Immigrant Defense Project works to secure fairness and justice for immigrants in the United States. They aim to strengthen immigrant defense through training and expert advice; challenging unfair laws through impact litigation; shaping just policies through advocacy; and empowering communities and advocates through alliance building and education, and changing negative perceptions about immigrants through communications and messaging.