Coronavirus
Appeal
Coronavirus
Appeal
Covid-19 is spiraling out of control in India,
with the health system unable to cope. Help the
most vulnerable face this devastating surge.
A family member looks on as funeral pyres of coronavirus patients burn during a mass cremation in New Delhi. Image: Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Key facts
414,000
confirmed new cases of Covid-19 in India yesterday, a global record
234,000
total confirmed coronavirus deaths in India, although the actual figure may be higher
DEC charities are responding to the crisis in India by providing medical supplies, treatment facilities and logistics support to overwhelmed health services.
With your help, we can do more to help the most vulnerable communities as they face a life-or-death situation. Find out more.
Healthcare workers in PPE attend to Covid-19 patients in a makeshift isolation ward in a banquet hall in New Delhi. Image: Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
We need your help to:
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support India’s health system with PPE, equipment, and isolation and medical care facilities
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give vulnerable families the means to protect themselves with water, soap, handwashing stations and information
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ensure that the Covid-19 crisis doesn’t mean people go hungry and children become malnourished.
Farid* stands at the entrance to his tent in a displacement camp in Syria. Image: Karam Almasri/DEC
Coronavirus in fragile states
Launched in July 2020, the DEC Coronavirus Appeal has been funding work in six of the world's most fragile states - Afghanistan, DR Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen - as well as the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Our Breaking Point report looks at how the pandemic is pushing these places towards catastrophe and how DEC charities have been using donations to help people affected.
Aid workers unload equipment after the earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi, Indonesia in 2018. Image: Hariandi Hafid/British Red Cross
ABOUT THE DEC
When large-scale disasters hit countries without the capacity to respond, the DEC brings together 14 leading aid charities to raise funds quickly and efficiently. In these times of crisis, people in life-and-death situations need our help and our mission is to save, protect and rebuild lives through effective humanitarian response.
Pooling our resources to work as one, we are pivotal in co-ordinating the UK public's response to overseas disasters. In collaboration with our Rapid Response Network of national media and corporate partners, we raise the alarm to the UK public and set up easy ways for them to donate.
And we have immediate impact, getting aid to people who need it, fast.
Since our launch in 1963
73
appeals launched for major disasters overseas
£1.7 billion
raised, saving millions of lives and rebuilding communities
