UNHCR and the EFL launch the Stronger Communities Cup, supporting refugee girls through football
UNHCR and the EFL launch the Stronger Communities Cup, supporting refugee girls through football
![Stronger Communities Cup two girls play football](/uk/sites/uk/files/2024-05/enas_and_retaj_-_stronger_communities_-_preston_2.jpg)
The Stronger Communities cup will showcase the inclusion and integration programmes of clubs across the UK.
UNHCR helps to save lives and build better futures for the millions of people forced to flee their homes.
Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.
We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.
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![The community of Sarandi in Porto Alegre hosts several families of Venezuelan refugees and migrants. Parts of this neighborhood were completely devastated by unprecedented floods in May. The Venezuelan families were evacuated, and while there were no fatalities, they now have no place to return to. Their community has become a ghost town, resembling a war zone.UNHCR is supporting Brazil's response to those affected by heavy and unprecedented floods in southern Brazil, including 43,000 refugees and others in need of international protection. UNHCR has donated 208 RHUs, among other items, to equip public shelters. Andrew Harper, UNHCR’s Special Advisor on Climate Action, visited a community devastated by unprecedented floods in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil.](/uk/sites/uk/files/RF1360867_23.jpg)
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Climate emergency
This El Nino season has caused global heavy rains, flooding, and landslides. From the East and Horn of Africa to Brazil, families have been flooded out of their homes, with nowhere else to go.
Sadly, disasters like flooding are only going to become more common, as the climate crisis creates more extreme weather patterns and drives more people to flee their homes.
UNCHR is on the ground responding to these climate emergencies, helping people rebuild after losing everything. But we don’t stop there. UNHCR is also working with affected communities to better prepare and adapt to extreme climate conditions.
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![Neziya Nsananikiye sits on the ground A woman sits on the ground in a flooded neighbourhood.](/uk/sites/uk/files/RF1348622_94.jpg)
The climate crisis is no longer a distant threat. It’s happening right now, and those forced to flee conflict are being hit the hardest.
could provide a tent as emergency shelter for families displaced by flooding in Kenya
could provide 10 mattresses so people displaced by the floods do not have to sleep on the ground
could provide five hygiene kits to help prevent the spread of waterborne diseases
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UNHCR annual Global Trends report 2021
UNHCR's Global Trends report presents key statistical trends and the latest numbers of refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless persons.
If ongoing conflicts remain unresolved and the risks of new ones erupting are not reined in, one aspect that will define the twenty-first century will be the continuously growing numbers of people forced to flee and the increasingly dire options available to them.