Humanitarian aid facts for kids

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RAF C-130 airdropping food during 1985 famine

Humanitarian aid is aid given with respect of human dignity with a spirit of human nature to people in war, disaster including natural disaster and to refugees according to laws of war and international human rights law. To this end International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs exist.

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  • Madras famine 1877

    A contemporary print showing the distribution of relief in Bellary, Madras Presidency. From the Illustrated London News (1877)

  • UNICEF pallets 02

    UNICEF humanitarian aid, ready for deploying. This can be food like Plumpy'nuts or water purification tablets.

  • US Navy 071204-M-1226J-016 Bangladeshi Citizens, offload food rations from a Marine CH-46E assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 166 (REIN), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC)

    Bangladeshi citizens offload food rations from a US Marine CH-46E helicopter of 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit after Tropical Cyclone Sidr in 2007

  • Durres airport supplies

    Humanitarian aid arriving by C-130 Hercules at Rinas Airport in Albania in the summer of 2000. Many organizations engaged in assisting refugees fleeing Kosovo.

  • Humanitarian aid OCPA-2005-10-28-090517a

    A soldier gives a young Pakistani girl a drink of water as they are airlifted from Muzaffarabad to Islamabad.


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