World Refugee Day: How to help?

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With more than 100 million refugees and displaced people in the world, the ACNUR Argentina Foundation launches its Blue Ponchos for Peace initiative.

In the world, more than 100 million people they were forced to flee their homes to save their lives. Armed conflicts and violence are the main reasons why they flee. How to help in a context that is getting worse minute by minute? Signing for peace.

Thus, the UNHCR Argentina Foundation launches its initiative “Blue Ponchos for Peace”, with an urgent call to become aware of the unsustainable situation that exists worldwide and understanding that peace is the only answer and the only possible path.

In 2001, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 20 as World Refugee Daywith the purpose of give visibility to this problem.

It is in this framework that the ACNUR Argentina Foundation launches the “Blue Ponchos for Peace” initiative; an open call to all Argentine society to unite in a call for peace for a world in which more than 1% of the population is displaced.

The initiative seeks to bring together one million signatures to make visible this urgent request for peace. To join you can go to ponchosazules.org and leave your signature.

Why blue ponchos?

Fundación ACNUR Argentina chose the Poncho as a distinctive element of this cause because shelter, hug and protect.

Blue ponchos, a campaign for refugees. from UNHCR Argentina Foundation

“We are already more than 380,000 Blue Ponchos in the country who act in the face of this reality, transforming pain into opportunity. Being a Blue Poncho is to be an agent of change, a representative in everyday life of solidarity and empathy for those who were forced to flee to save their lives, their family, their dignity”, he says Alfredo Botti, Executive Director of the ACNUR Argentina Foundation.

“A Blue Poncho gives shelter, gives support, gives love, but above all tirelessly embraces the hope of a world in Peace,” he adds.

With this initiative, Fundación ACNUR Argentina seeks to collect one million Blue Ponchos for Peace.

Blue Ponchos for Peace.

Blue Ponchos for Peace.

It is thanks to the support of millions of people around the world that UNHCR is able to provide protection, food, shelter, health, education and assistance to millions of refugees and displaced people. For more information, you can go to fundacionacnur.org, or to the following social networks: Instagram @acnurargentinaFacebook UNHCR Argentina Foundation y Twitter @ACNURargentina.

​The current situation

There are many emergencies in the world. The crisis in Syria has been going on for more than 11 years and half of its population has been forced to leave their homes. 6.7 million people are displaced within the territory, while 6.6 million crossed the borders in search of a safe place.

7 years after the start of the conflict in yemen, more than 20 million people require humanitarian aid. There, displaced families face four times the risk of hunger than the rest of the Yemeni population.

Three internally displaced brothers and their father walk through the rubble of their neighborhood in Homs, Syria.  Photo: UNHCR - Vivian Tou'meh

Three internally displaced brothers and their father walk through the rubble of their neighborhood in Homs, Syria. Photo: UNHCR – Vivian Tou’meh

This year the war forced more than 14 million people from Ukraine to flee for their lives, it is the fastest growing displacement in history. These, like so many other large-scale humanitarian emergencies around the world, highlight the urgent need to call for peace.

What is UNHCR

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agencyis a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for people forced to flee their homes due to conflict and persecution.

It provides life-saving assistance such as shelter, food and water, helps safeguard fundamental human rights, and develops solutions that ensure people have a safe place to call home. It works in more than 130 countries.

In Tiszabecs, Hungary, a young refugee carries her children after being forced to leave her husband behind while fleeing Ukraine.  Photo: UNHCR - Zsolt Balla.

In Tiszabecs, Hungary, a young refugee carries her children after being forced to leave her husband behind while fleeing Ukraine. Photo: UNHCR – Zsolt Balla.

The UNHCR Argentina Foundation works to inform and raise awareness among the population about the needs and challenges faced by refugees.

The organization alsoraise funds to support UNHCR’s work around the world and bring direct aid to refugees and thousands of families who, forced to flee their homes, have lost everything.

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