Humanitarian Response
When conflict or disaster strikes, we respond immediately through local partners with lifesaving assistance. Our response prioritises the needs of women and girls and marginalised communities.
World Jewish Relief USA EIN-874022962
Inspired by our Jewish values, we provide life-saving and life-changing action to support and empower people in crisis around the world.
What We Do
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Climate Resilience
The communities least responsible for climate change are often the worst affected. We work with those worst impacted by changing weather conditions and climate-related disasters.
Employment and Livelihood Assistance
We help people suffering the economic impacts of conflict, climate change and migration to transform their earning potential through employment and livelihood recovery.
Support for Older People
We provide life-saving assistance and care to older Jews of the Survivor generation, focussing particular attention on those affected by the conflict in Ukraine.
Archives – Your Family History
World Jewish Relief was established as the Central British Fund for German Jewry in 1933 to help refugees from Nazi-Europe, and we succeeded in bringing around 65,000 Jewish refugees to safety.
Support for Ukraine
World Jewish Relief’s 30 year history in Ukraine, our extensive network of local partners and our understanding of the context gives us unparalleled access and capability to respond to evolving needs.
Ukraine Crisis Appeal
We are responding to the most urgent humanitarian needs as they arise, prioritising food, cash, medical, material, and psychological support for the worst affected.
Major Giving
If you would like to make a significant personal donation, or provide a grant through a charitable Trust or Foundation, your support will help World Jewish Relief provide life-saving and life-changing action.
Featured News
Life in a Ukrainian Ghost Town
9th May 2023,
Humanitarian Response
The situation in Kherson is nightmarish. The region, home to 330,000 people before the war, is now a ghost-town with less than 60,000 inhabitants.
Women Refugees: Barriers to Integration
8th Mar 2023,
Refugee Employment
Often traumatised from fleeing disaster and unimaginable violence, refugees arriving in the UK have been forced to leave their culture and their support systems behind.
On the Ground in Turkey
7th Mar 2023,
Emergency Appeals
4.17am. It’s a time I hear again and again. 4.17am. A time that usually comes and goes, quietly and unnoticed. But this 4.17am was different, this 4.17am left its indelible mark, in every sense.
Our Turkey-Syria Earthquake Response
7th Mar 2023,
Emergency Appeals
On Monday 6th February 2023, two deadly earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria.
