EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Few things are as traumatic as living through a natural disaster or seeing one’s community implode as a result of violent conflict. In addition to the immediate loss of life and property, emergencies have many other detrimental effects, including the devastation of critical infrastructure and municipal services, the destruction of markets and businesses needed for livelihoods and economic health, and, in the case of conflict, the frequent dissolution of community cohesion and trust.

Understanding that survivors of such emergencies have a wide range of immediate and longer-term needs, CHF International works not only to transition communities out of crisis, but assists them in moving forward as quickly as possible into longer-term economic development and reconstruction.

When people have lost loved ones and property, the last thing they need is to be deprived of their sense of agency in rebuilding their own lives. As a result, working with and through community structures is imperative to the success of our work. We bring communities together to prioritize the needs of individuals and the group at-large to design locally-appropriate, economically viable projects that will help them to build back better than before, while training them to mitigate the impact of future crises going forward.

To learn more please read our Humanitarian Assistance Fact Sheet.