2015 Christmas Appeal

A gift of this kind can buy five jerry cans that enable a refugee to collect clean water. Clean water is often in short supply in refugee camps, so it’s important that refugees can safely collect and store water for drinking, cooking and bathing. Jerry cans are essential for good health and sanitation.

A gift of this kind can provide 10 life-saving Clean Delivery Kits. These kits contain an instruction sheet, cotton baby wrap, soap, plastic sheeting, a clean blade and string for the umbilical cord. These kits are proven to save the lives of women and girls during the onset of an emergency. This low cost intervention can reduce newborn deaths by up to 70% and more than double a mother's chance of survival.

Malaria is a constant risk and a leading cause of death in refugee camps, especially for children who are particularly vulnerable. These rapid, effective treatments can save the lives of 15 people.

Simple sports equipment can make a huge difference to refugee children just by giving them the opportunity to play and learn. Sport and recreation are vital for their healthy development.

A gift of this kind can give a child a desk, chair and a year’s supply of school books and stationery. Many refugee children are unable to attend school for many years as a result of leaving their homes. Education is the key to a brighter future for these children and for their whole communities when they return home.

A gift of this kind can provide drugs, sterile dressings and other supplies for midwives. Midwife packs including drugs, sterile dressings and medical supplies are essential for clean, safe delivery. Each pack can be used to help 10 refugee mothers.

Pay a teacher’s salary for one month. For refugee children, education is the key to a better future – but in order to learn, they need good teachers. Paying a teacher’s salary gives many children the opportunity to learn.

Items like seeds and tools assist refugees to grow food for their families, improving their nutrition and helping them to become more self-sufficient.

A gift of this kind can purchase a New Mother's Pack containing nutritional food for infants, baby blankets, baby clothes and soap. The pack can provide all of these things for 20 pregnant women. Such simple gifts drastically improve the chances of survival for mothers and their newborns.

Most refugee families are forced to flee with nothing, and when they finally reach safety, they need basic items to survive. The Emergency Survival Kit contains sleeping mats, plastic sheeting, mosquito nets, a kitchen set and a stove.

A gift of this kind can supply a water distribution point with six taps. Children can walk up to 5km each day to collect water for them and their families. Right now, refugees in one settlement live on 15L per person per day. The agency standard is 20L per person per day, and the average Australian consumes 285L of water each day.

A light-weight tent for a family of five. A basic need for all refugee families, Tents shelter millions of refugee families from the harsh sun, wind and rain.

A gift of this kind can provide a therapeutic feeding kit for 50 malnourished children. Refugees are often forced to travel long distances to reach safety, and can go for weeks with little food. Children are especially vulnerable. The refugee agency's therapeutic feeding kits can restore 50 malnourished children to health.

A gift of this kind can purchase an Emergency Health Kit to meet the complete medical needs of up to 5000 refugees for one month. Refugees frequently arrive at camps malnourished or with serious injuries due to long journeys fleeing conflict and violence. Help improve their chances of survival and ensure they have access to adequate health services.

A gift of this kind can supply a midwife and a midwife kit, saving the lives of women in childbirth. Thousands of refugee women give birth in poor conditions, without any medical assistance, and as a result many women and their babies die in childbirth. A trained midwife and a kit of medical supplies can save hundreds of lives.