When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on February 6th, it killed tens of thousands and left millions homeless.

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The COVID-19 pandemic is unlike anything we’ve faced in our lifetimes, upending every aspect of normal life and inflicting hundreds of thousands of deaths all over the world.

The Jewish Coalition for Rohingya Relief formed in December 2017, as the situation for the Rohingya community worsened. Currently, 615,500 Rohingya have been forced across the border to Bangladesh due to fleeing conflict in their native land. 

JCDR has been responding to the largest refugee crisis since WWII for three years and has provided humanitarian relief to tens of thousands refugees and displaced persons to meet their most basic needs.

Food insecurity has become an emergent crisis in East Africa and the surrounding areas. Currently 30 million people are living on the brink of starvation due to persistent drought and conflict in the region.

The Jewish Coalition for Haiti Relief was formed by 21 Coalition members immediately following the devastating earthquake that hit the country on January 12, 2010.

The Coalition provided support for quake victims’ immediate needs as well as assistance for the country’s long-term recovery.

In 2011, the Horn of Africa was hit by a major food crisis that affected millions of people in drought-stricken areas of Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. Somalia was the worst-hit country in the region and the United Nations declared a famine in two of its southern areas in July 2011. Tens of thousands of Somalis fled the drought and conflict-fraught country to neighboring Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti seeking food and refuge.

In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011, 26 North American Jewish organizations came together to form the Jewish Coalition for Japan Relief.

The Coalition’s response included:

In the wake of the deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated Nepal, the Coalition for Earthquake in Nepal was created as a partnership of primarily North American Jewish organizations that seek to assist victims of natural or man-made disasters outside of North America on a non-sectarian basis.

Super Typhoon Haiyan was one of the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall in recorded history and resulted in widespread damage to the Philippines, especially in the central city of Tacloban.