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Turn local experience into local resilience
When catastrophic floods or bushfires strike in Australia, nobody knows what’s best for their community more than the people who live there.
Your donation today will support Australian Red Cross volunteers like Kerry. In the wake of Cyclone Jasper, she connected the local community with vital services while providing a place of safety and support at the recovery centre – offering much-needed hope and care to those affected by the disaster.
You can help locals like Kerry in QLD respond to an emergency.
Together we can be there for people during and after disasters and emergencies across Australia.
Donate to the Australian Emergency Fund today and help impacted communities access vital care and support in times of crisis.
How your gift today makes a difference
$35
can provide a wellbeing check for someone who’s isolated or been through an emergency.
$115
can equip five families in regional Australia with their own ready-to-go emergency plan.
$150
can help us deliver a door-to-door support service, checking on residents in the aftermath of an emergency.
About the Australian Emergency Fund
Donations to the Australian Emergency Fund power the work of Australian Red Cross emergency teams in Australia, so that they can help the most vulnerable people in our communities before, during and after emergencies. This includes:
- training and equipping our emergency response teams and volunteers
- supporting our work to prepare communities for disasters or other emergencies
- powering our response and recovery work when emergencies strike whether it’s floods, fires, storms or cyclones.
Our emergency teams are experts. Many of them have lived through emergencies themselves. With your support, we can continue making sure that Australian Red Cross can be there, helping people through the most challenging moments of their lives.
At least 80% per cent of money raised goes directly to the purposes of this fund. No more than 20 cents in every dollar is spent on support costs so we can run our organisation as efficiently and effectively as possible. This includes secure systems to manage donations, advice on delivering humanitarian aid, supporting volunteer networks and investing in our fundraising so we can help even more people in need.
Donations above $2 are tax-deductible in Australia. You will receive a receipt in your name in an email when you donate online.
In the unlikely event that funds raised exceed the cost of our emergency services work, the excess will be used to support our everyday work with other people experiencing vulnerability in Australia.
Australian Red Cross takes your privacy seriously and handles your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. If you do not want to receive marketing materials from us, you can email contactus@redcross.org.au or call 1800 RED CROSS (733 276).
We really appreciate the generosity but we’re unable to distribute donated goods, especially overseas. There are several good reasons for this. Every item has to be checked, cleaned, sorted, packed, transported, stored and distributed, which hugely increases the cost of the relief effort and diverts from work that may be needed on the ground.
When we provide relief supplies, they are carefully selected, packed for quick distribution and customs clearance, and checked to ensure they are what people really need.
Unwanted boxes of donated goods can clog ports and post offices and actually prevent the delivery of essential items like medicines and relief supplies.
The website DonateResponsibly.org has a great explanation of what can go wrong.
But if you have good-quality clothes or household items, our Australian Red Cross Shops would gratefully accept them, to on-sell in Australia and raise funds for our vital work.
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