Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake has devastated huge areas of Myanmar. People urgently need help to survive.

Hundreds of people are still missing. Many more have no access to the safe shelter, clean water, food and medical care they need to survive.

Countless roads and buildings have been destroyed, including hospitals, schools and water supplies. Network and power lines are down. People are cut off from vital services.

Myanmar was already facing a severe humanitarian crisis with a third of the population in need of humanitarian aid. Now the situation is catastrophic.

DEC charities are already on the ground in affected communities and are working hard to access remote areas. They urgently need more funds to scale up their work and reach the most vulnerable.

Start fundraising today.

DEC charities are providing lifesaving aid in Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and Syria but urgently need more funds.

Millions of people are in urgent need. DEC charities and their local partners have been working throughout the conflict to reach people with food, shelter and medical support, including scaling up their work during periods of ceasefire.

In Gaza, where many people have been displaced multiple times, DEC charities are working to support families on the move. Food and clean water remain desperately scarce. More than 48,000 people have been killed in the conflict. Many have lost everything.

In Lebanon, more than a million people fled their homes after violence escalated. People are now moving back to their communities, and DEC charities are supporting those returning and those who have nowhere to go.

But they urgently need more funds to meet the huge levels of need. Start fundraising today.