We are on the front lines of the world’s most serious refugee crises. We work with refugees and displaced people-along with the communities hosting them.
Donate Now How Action Against Hunger Helps Refugees Support refugees with clean water, food, and health care. However, the IOM-the UN’s Migration Agency-acknowledges that recent years have seen increased migration and displacement due to conflict, persecution, environmental degradation and change, and deficits in human security and opportunity. Migration is a term that covers a wide variety of movements and situations involving individuals from all backgrounds and walks of life.Īs globalization increases, so too does migration-and many instances of migration occur in positive circumstances. Refugees and internally displaced people also fall under the umbrella of migrants. Many find shelter in large settlements, often called refugee camps, run by the United Nations and humanitarian aid groups. Seeking safety and a more secure life, people become refugees. Their lives may be at risk, jobs and incomes can be destroyed, food can become scarce or prohibitively expensive, and access to education may be cut off for children. Manmade and natural disasters alike can make life extremely unsafe for whole families and communities. Some refugees have contended with more than one of these factors at once. Individuals and families seek asylum and safe refuge because they have fled violence, persecution, war, or natural disaster. Why are people displaced from their homes? Stay up to date on all the latest information from Action Against Hunger. In its traditional definition, a refugee refers to a person who has been forced to flee their home country and sought safety beyond its borders.Īt Action Against Hunger, our programs focus on an even broader definition of displaced people, including refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons (individuals who flee their homes but seek to settle elsewhere within their home country) and stateless people.
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