Helping people forced to flee

Our 16,000 colleagues in 35 countries assisted almost 10 million displaced people in 2021. There are more people fleeing their homes than ever before. Around the world, more than 90 million people have been forced to flee because of violence, conflict or persecution. And the Covid-19 pandemic has affected these vulnerable people more than most.

Since the Covid-19 alarm went off in the spring of 2020, our colleagues have worked hard to provide assistance to displaced people while also preventing the spread of infection. In 2021, we assisted a total of 9.8 million people.

NRC is grateful that the support we receive from our donors enables us to increase our efforts as the need increases. 

One example of how NRC is helping those who are displaced, is through our shelter and settlements work. 

NRC provides physical safety, an identity and a foundation for recovery through our shelter and settlement programming. Working hand-in-hand with other NRC activities in the field through an integrated approach, we aim to create homes and build communities to protect people from the risks of displacement and enable them to live in dignity.

We believe that reaching our collective impact of protection and dignity is a process. This starts with saving lives by facilitating access to temporary shelter during the emergency phase, and continues even in protracted displacement, and for durable solutions. The shelter and settlements response is based on learning from displaced people what makes a shelter a home and how to transform a settlement into a community.

Last year, 1,570,478 people benefitted from our shelter and settlements work. 

Thank you for helping those who are forced to flee!  

Links:

• We assisted nearly 10 million people in 2021
• Find out more about our work here