Crisis Alert: Urgent Call for Refugee Relief

Refugees at the border of Turkey desperately need food and clean water to survive

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Charity Number: 184.201.34

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Have you seen the harrowing life of refugees at the Turkish border?

Life for refugee populations in the Afrin district and Azaz corridor at the border of Turkey has been a relentless struggle.

The region, home to over 6 million people, is grappling with a severe water shortage and widespread food insecurity. Among them, 1.7 million are living in makeshift refugee camps, where basic necessities are scarce.

Food is scarce for millions of refugee children and families.

The reduction in aid from the World Food Programme (WFP) has only worsened the crisis, leaving over 3 million refugees without essential support, while just 2.5 million receive limited assistance. This cutback has intensified poverty and hunger, pushing already vulnerable populations further into desperation.

These are people who once lived in homes filled with the warmth of family and the comfort of routine—jobs, schools, and the places that held their memories. Now, they struggle to get something as simple as bread and water.

Can you imagine if your life and home suddenly turned into this?

A refugee walks with her children at a refugee camp on the Turkish border.

No food, no water, no future: Beyond the hunger crisis

Food insecurity and extreme poverty across these refugee communities is more than just an empty stomach.

The hidden toll affects nearly every aspect of life. The constant struggle to secure their next meal takes away their time to build a livelihood and leaves them with little resources to spend on anything other than food.

This leaves millions of refugees being forced to sacrifice medical care, hygiene essentials, and other basic living items. Women and children are left to walk long distances daily to fetch water, taking time away from education and other livelihood activities.

Walking long distances to collect water is a common daily task for refugee children.

To make things even worse, the lack of sanitation infrastructure and the use of contaminated water have led to a rise in skin diseases, diarrhea, and cholera, especially among the elderly and children.

Bottom line: Without food security and access to basic water and sanitation, refugee populations are left stuck—vulnerable to preventable diseases and unable to rebuild their lives.

A refugee mother holds her young baby.

Together, we can help them rebuild their lives

ELVEFA has stepped in to rebuild the foundations of daily life, providing essential supplies like food baskets, bread and water to restore stability and offer a sense of normalcy to rebuild their lives.

#1: The Food Basket & Bread Project
ELVEFA’s bread campaign provides families with nutrient-rich bread, ensuring they have access to basic, life-sustaining food and improving the community’s overall health.

Together with your support, ELVEFA’s Food Basket & Bread Project can achieve three key goals:

💠 Achieving Food Security
Providing food baskets and daily bread to 3,000 families on the northern Turkish border.

💠 Alleviating Financial Burdens
Alleviate the burden on families by providing free food baskets and nutritious bread, allowing them to allocate their limited resources to other critical needs.

💠 Supporting Local Employment
Creating job opportunities for individuals involved in bread production and distribution.

An ELVEFA team member distributing bread to displaced families in refugee camps.

#2: Water Before Medicine Project
ELVEFA is on-ground distributing clean water for 500 families daily. Access to clean and safe water also significantly reduces the risk of disease.

Together with your support, ELVEFA’s Water before Medicine Project can achieve three key goals:

💠 Enhancing Food Security
Ensure access to clean water for 500 families, each receiving 10 liters daily for 60 days.

💠 Reducing Financial and Psychological Burdens
Reduces the costs and stress of securing water. This will reduce the burden on women and children and allow them to focus on livelihood opportunities and education.

💠 Minimizing Health Risks
Reduce the spread of waterborne diseases by providing safe drinking water.

ELVEFA’s efforts have provided refugee children with access to clean water, relieving them of the burden of walking long distances to get water.

How your support helps ELVEFA create an impact

Providing bread and access to clean water to the most needy refugee communities in war-torn areas involves many steps. Your donation will help ELVEFA achieve this mission by directly helping them:

✅ Collaborate with authorities to update data on the targeted families.

✅ Work with local authorities to ensure smooth project implementation.

✅ Research and contract suppliers for flour and other necessary materials.

✅ Hire bakery workers to prepare and pack the bread.

✅ Arrange for transportation to distribute bread to beneficiaries.

✅ Contract a water tanker to deliver water daily to the bakery.

✅ Establish monitoring standards and ensure quality.

✅ Submit narrative and financial reports to donors.

✅ Measure the project’s impact on beneficiaries.

An ELVEFA team member distributing bread to refugee populations, including the disabled, elderly, widowed, and orphaned.

You can make a world of difference

By donating to ELVEFA’s Food Basket & Bread Project and the Water Before Medicine Project, you’ll provide life-saving essentials to refugee populations and displaced families who need them most.

Your donations are more than just a financial transaction—they instill hope in the hearts of children, empower refugee communities with dignity, and create caring communities. Every contribution, no matter the size, will also be an opportunity of reward and blessing for you.

“O people, spread peace (greet others with salam), feed the hungry, and pray at night when others are asleep, and you will enter Paradise in peace.”(Tirmidhi)

Sa’id reported Sa’d came to the Prophet (SWAS) and asked him Which sadaqah do you like most? He replied Water.
(Al-Albani)

Join us in making a real impact. Donate generously and help ELVEFA create caring communities through the power of food, bread and clean water.

With the support of donations from kind people like you, ELVEFA can provide a refugee child and his family with essential food and delicious, warm, nutritious bread.

With the support of donations from kind people like you, ELVEFA can provide a refugee child and her family with clean water and keep them safe from diseases.

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Our Work

Elvefa Association for Relief and Development (ELVEFA) is a non-governmental organization registered in Turkey on March 12, 2014. Founded in Istanbul under registration number 184.201.34, our organization is dedicated to relief and development projects. We have three offices in Turkey.

We are committed to confidently advancing our vision, mission, and goals. Our vision is to elevate the standards of managing and executing charitable projects to achieve the highest levels of efficiency through meticulous and highly professional planning.

Our goals encompass supporting the needy and deserving individuals, providing developmental and social support to individuals and families, offering medical and psychological assistance to the sick and injured, and providing scientific and cultural support to the community.

In the sectors we operate, the scope of our work and the beneficiaries served within the year 2022 are as follows:

💠 Shelter aided: 55,000 individuals

💠 Education supported: 9,414 children

💠 Food security reached: 360,414 people

💠 Non-food security assisted: 416,876 people

💠 Sponsorships benefited: 2,333 people

💠 Developmental projects impacted: 661 individuals.

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