Conflict is the number one driver of hunger around the world.

Millions of people in places like Sudan, Gaza and Ukraine have been forced to leave their homes because of war.

When armed conflict escalates, families are driven into poverty and struggle to access even the most basic necessities.

Food prices soar, livelihoods are ruined, and humanitarian aid is often blocked, leaving people even more vulnerable to hunger.

By donating today, you could help families access:

  • emergency food and clean water
  • cash vouchers to buy urgently-needed items
  • hygiene, dignity and menstrual kits
  • safe shelter, including mattresses and blankets
  • life-saving mental health support
  • protection for women and girls facing gender-based violence.

Your donation will help support all areas of our work, wherever the need is greatest.

Please give what you can today to help more people affected by war and violence.
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How you can help families fleeing war

For many of us, being forced to leave our home to escape violence is unimaginable. But it’s the reality for thousands of families around the world today.

Your donation now can help us reach more families in crisis with life-saving aid like water, food, safe shelter and protection for women and girls.

Help supply clean water

Action Against Hunger team delivering clean water aid to Sudanese refugees.

When conflicts escalate, more and more people lose access to clean water - an essential to survival. We try and reach as many people as possible in emergencies, trucking clean water directly to communities.

Donating £21 could help buy a 5,000 litre water tank we can deliver directly to people in need.

Deliver food to refugees

147.4 million people faced conflict-induced hunger in 2025. We're committed to providing emergency food to people living in displacement camps and are providing food baskets and hot meals right now for refugees across the world.

Donating £37 could provide 37 hot meals for refugees escaping conflict.

Send a survival package

Millions of people around the world are living in make-shift shelters with little access to life-sustaining essentials, with displaced women and girls are especially vulnerable.

Donating £85 could buy a complete survival package for a refugee including shelter, food, water, hygiene kits and menstrual kits.

How your donation helps us assist women and girls

During conflict, women and girls experience more gender-based violence - often when trying to access the aid they need to survive.

We recognise women and girls need specialist support when they're displaced due to conflict.

Our teams offer individual and group psychological support to help survivors coping with the trauma of gender-based violence and war. We reached 119,000 women and girls through our mental health programmes in 2025.

Your gift today could provide psychological support and protection services to vulnerable women living in some of the most volatile places on earth.
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An Action Against Hunger worker with refugees

Spotlight on Sudan: The worst humanitarian crisis in the world

More than 21 million people are going hungry and 14 million have fled their homes since the start of the war in Sudan.

Since the start of the conflict, we have supported nearly two million people in Sudan with food, water and medical care.

Our food kitchens and medical workers have helped to save thousands of lives. But many more need our help.

Your support can help us reach more families living through crises in Sudan and around the world.
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How your donation supports communities living through conflict

When action is needed to save lives, we’re there working to get the right food and support to communities at the right time.

Your donations help us in responding to conflicts around the world, including in:

  • Sudan: Our assistance reached over 645,000 people last year, including in neighbouring countries like Chad and South Sudan, where many Sudanese people have fled.
  • Gaza: We’ve delivered over 900,000 hot meals and helped over 30,000 women and children receive therapeutic food in Gaza, continuing to find ways to support Palestinian communities through ongoing conflict.
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo: We’re providing emergency sanitation services, hygiene kits and nutrition support for pregnant women and new mothers alongside psychological support and reproductive health services in the DRC.
  • Ukraine: Four years on from the start of the war in Ukraine, our teams are still reaching vulnerable people and hard-to-reach areas with medical support, cash assistance and nutrition programmes.

You can help us reach more communities with this life-saving work by making an emergency donation today.
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The displacement crisis: why families need support

  • 41.6 million

    At the end of 2025, there were 41.6 million refugees in the world requiring humanitarian support.

  • 4 in 5

    A staggering 80% of the global population facing famine or catastrophic levels of hunger are located in Gaza.

  • 80%

    The UN estimates that 80% of humanitarian funding is needed to help people affected by conflict.