Featured Charities

UNICEF

UNICEF was founded on December, 1946, when the United Nations voted to establish the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). The organization was founded to help provide relief and support to children living in countries devastated by war. As of now, 70 years later, UNICEF has helped save more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organization by providing health care and immunizations, clean water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief. To learn about how UNICEF is helping the Syrian children, click here.

THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) was founded on July, 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the Noble Prize winning physicist, humanitarian---and refugee. Its mission was to assist Germans suffering from the policies of Nazi Germany. After World War Two, IRC volunteers were among the first to offer aid to Europe’s displaced peoples.

Today, 83 years later, the IRC responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well-being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. To learn about how the IRC is helping Syrian children—both inside and outside Syria, please click on these links: click here, For information about how the IRC is helping to resettle Syrian refugee families in America, click here.

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS

Photo: Michael Gottleib, Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders was founded in France on December, 1971. At the time, 300 volunteers—including doctors, nurses and other staff—came together because they believed that all people have the right to medical care regardless of race, gender, religion or creed or where they live.

Doctors Without Borders was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, in recognition of the organization’s “pioneering humanitarian work on several continents”. To learn about how Doctors Without Borders is helping Syrian children and their families, click here.

SAVE THE CHILDREN

Photo: Save The Children

Save the Children was originally founded in England, on April,1919 by Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton to help the starving children in Germany and Austria Hungary in the aftermath of World War One. In 1932 a group of Americans were inspired by the Jebb sisters’ vision and established Save the Children, in the United States. The organization’s mission is to “inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives”. To learn more about how Save the Children is helping Syrian children, click here.