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Direct Relief

Thematic Focus Areas

Disaster Relief
Global Health
Refugees
Improves the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergency situations by mobilizing and providing essential medical resources needed for their care.

Website

EIN

95-1831116

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A woman and child standing in front of a destroyed house.
In the wake of disaster, every effort shapes the path to recovery. Whether it’s a sudden earthquake or an ongoing humanitarian crisis, communities in need rely on coordinated responses to survive and rebuild. Around the world, these six nonprofits are providing life-changing support in places where traditional systems have collapsed, offering medical care, clean water, and shelter. Your workplace giving campaign can make an impact for these lifesaving nonprofits. Every contribution to these organizations helps ensure that relief reaches those impacted when disaster strikes.  Direct ReliefOn November 3, 2023, a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck western Nepal, killing 153 people and injuring...

Charity Photos

  • Charity: Direct Relief
  • Country: USA
  • Photo Credit: Direct Relief

  • Charity: Direct Relief
  • Country: Syria
  • Photo Credit: Boraq Albsha for Syria Relief and Development

  • Title: Mobile Health in Nepal
  • Charity: Direct Relief
  • Country: Nepal
  • Photo Credit: Photo courtesy of Mountain Heart Nepal

Charity Videos

Charity Impact

Danish organization Levitate hosted a prosthetics sports event along with Unbroken Rehabilitaion Center (both partner organizations of Direct Relief). Levitate specializes in creating prosthetics sports gear that’s affordable, durable, and easy to use; and now Levitate will be able to help Ukrainian amputees get on their feet. With funding from Direct Relief, their team will supply running blades and other prostheses to patients at the country’s largest rehabilitation centers, Unbroken and Superhumans, as well as other partners identified throughout the program. The Levitate team will also personally do the training, fitting, and adjusting of prosthetics for the patients in Ukraine. The founder of Levitate, Lasse Madsen, is an amputee himself and had to overcome a considerable series of financial and emotional hurdles to get the gear he needed, including time-consuming appointments and costly equipment that often failed to deliver on quality. He and his team are determined to make the...
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