Pacific Emergency Fund
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In response to the earthquake in Vanuatu on 17 December 2024, Australian Red Cross is working closely with Vanuatu Red Cross Society and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), who are monitoring the situation and exploring response options. Trained and experienced Red Cross teams are on the ground and ready to assist affected communities with pre-positioned relief items.
Australian Red Cross will continue to monitor the situation closely alongside our Movement partners and stands ready to support as and when required.
Turn local knowledge into resilience when disasters strike
Across the Pacific, extreme weather events such as storms and cyclones are becoming increasingly frequent and severe due to climate change.
Each time a disaster strikes, communities are the first to feel the impacts and the first to respond. With your help, they can better prepare and respond to more needs and save more lives.
Your donation powers teams on the ground in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu to train up locals to prepare for and anticipate disasters before they happen, provide life-saving assistance during emergencies, and help people recover safely and with dignity.
Every emergency impacts people locally – whether they are individuals or communities. By supporting training, providing emergency kits and helping local Red Cross teams mobilise quickly to respond, you are giving communities their best chance of surviving when disasters strike and recovering afterwards.
You can help people like Hilda from Vanuatu respond to an emergency.
Together, we can be there for people in disasters across the Pacific. Red Cross teams are on the ground in countries like Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu to build resilience and offer life-saving support when disasters like cyclones strike.
From 20 December all donations to the Pacific Emergency Fund will support our response to the 2024 Vanuatu Earthquake.
Your donation helps Red Cross be there to support people affected by the earthquakes in Vanuatu. It enables us and our partners to provide life-saving assistance, and help people recover safely and with dignity.
That support may include:
- emergency relief assistance including health and first aid, shelter, water and sanitation, and protection initiatives
- specialist aid workers to assist local teams to respond
- provision of relief supplies to support affected communities
- working in affected areas to strengthen resilience and deliver effective relief and recovery services
Donate to the Pacific Emergency Fund today and help build community resilience from the ground up.
How your gift today makes a difference
$51
can provide a family of five with a month’s supply of hygiene items and jerry cans for collecting and storing water.
$270
can provide essentials for a family of five: a mosquito net, a kitchen set, two buckets, two jerry cans, two tarpaulins, a shelter tool kit, two lanterns and a hygiene kit.
About the Pacific Emergency Fund
Your donation means Red Cross can be there for people in disasters and crises in the Pacific region. It enables us and our partners to prepare for crises before they happen, provide life-saving assistance, and help people recover safely and with dignity.
Your donations support life-changing work with our Pacific neighbours and may include:
- ensuring Pacific National Societies have the standing capacity (people, skills and assets) to ensure their communities are prepared for, anticipate, respond to and recover from disasters and crises
- emergency relief assistance including shelter, health, water and sanitation, and protection initiatives
- specialist aid workers to assist local teams to respond
- working in affected areas to strengthen resilience and deliver effective relief and recovery services.
Our emergency teams are experts in their field and based in communities. Many of them have lived through emergencies themselves. With your support, we can continue making sure that Australian Red Cross can show solidarity and provide additional support, 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.
Final support costs cannot be fully determined until the appeal and response has concluded. However, in previous emergency responses, Australian Red Cross's support costs have equated to roughly 20% of funds raised. These support costs include costs associated with the overall operational capacity of Australian Red Cross, such as:
- supporting program delivery, including ensuring our compliance and safeguarding obligations are met, and necessary program management infrastructure
- workers, volunteers and employees, including IT, HR, Finance, Legal, WH&S, etc.
- finance, audit and accounting
- technology and communication infrastructure.
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 and communities across the Pacific region who are in need.
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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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