Today is Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday, the Tuesday directly following Thanksgiving, marks the beginning of the winter season and is an opportunity to bring attention to the global refugee crisis and how you can help out those in need this season.

This time of the year is always a time when the most vulnerable are left even more vulnerable as temperatures drop and they’re left exposed to the harsh realities of winter. I’m thinking of refugee families who have been forced to flee with little more than the clothes on their backs. Now is the time, more than ever, that they need our help in order to survive and hopefully get to a place where they can resettle and start a new life.

This Giving Tuesday, I’m joining USA for UNHCR in helping support displaced families through the harsh winter ahead. As families brace for freezing cold temperatures and heavy snow, winter survival kits can provide the warmth, safety and hope that they need. If you are able to help in even the slightest, your compassionate gift will be matched $1-for-$1 to provide comfort, warmth and peace during a displaced family’s greatest time of need.

If you can, please click here to donate and help give the gift of hope and warmth by raising enough to provide 3,200 winter survival kits. Together we can help those who are battling a crisis they didn’t have a hand in starting; who are left defenseless and fighting for their lives and the lives of their family in order to make it through the winter months; who have the same rights as we all do and deserve the chance to make a better life for themselves.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and for doing what you can. And as always, thank you to USA for UNHCR for constantly fighting for those who need it most.

(above photo courtesy of USA for UNHCR)