Middle East Emergency

Families have lost homes, safety, and security. Your support can provide urgent food, shelter, and life-saving aid.

Intensified conflict in the Middle East has damaged residential areas and essential infrastructure in Lebanon, forcing families to flee their homes with little to no belongings.

Many households are currently sheltering in overcrowded spaces, informal
settlements, or partially damaged buildings. Access to food, bedding, and basic
household items remains critically limited.

Hospitals and local responders are overwhelmed, and vulnerable populations –
including children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities – are facing heightened
risks due to shortages of food and safe sleeping materials.

A History of The Zahra Trust Emergency Response

2026: Ground teams in Pakistan responded within hours of attack in Islamabad, providing emergency medical support, trauma support, essentials, and support for families of the deceased.

2025: Responding often within 24 hours to new emergencies in core areas of operations and community. Helping families rebuild, restart, and succeed with their homes and businesses. 

2024: Following the targeted bombing of a public vehicle in Dasht-e-Barchi, Kabul, Afghanistan, leaving 13 injured and one dead, we provided critical support to the affected Shia community. 

2024: In response to ongoing violence in Parachinar, Pakistan, where 42 have been martyred and over 164 injured, we have delivered urgent relief to families enduring unimaginable suffering. 

2024: After the brutal attack on a Shia mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, which claimed six lives, including a three-year-old, we provided emergency aid and support to the grieving community. 

2024: As Lebanon endured a severe humanitarian emergency, we delivered vital aid, including medical supplies, food, and shelter, to support the overstretched healthcare system and affected communities. 

2023: Following the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan on Saturday, 7th October 2023, which claimed over 2,000 lives, leaving thousands injured, and destroying many homes, we responded by providing emergency aid, including critical supplies and rebuilding efforts in the Herat region. 

2023: In response to a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Turkiye and Syria, we provided food parcels, shelter, water, medical aid and other essentials for the families affected. 

2022: Responded to extreme flooding in Pakistan & Afghanistan that affected over 33 million people, providing shelter, water, food and hygiene kits. 

2022: In response to a devastating 6.1 magnitude earthquake killing over one thousand, our team quickly deployed to provide emergency assistance to those impacted by the natural disaster. 

2022: Responded to deadly attack on worshipers at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan; as the first NGO on the scene, we provided both immediate and long-term assistance to those affected. 

2021: Responded to the deadly new variant of COVID-19 in India that left the nation struggling to cope, providing hospitals with hundreds of oxygen tanks, oximeters and concentrators. 

2020: Built homes for victims of the maternity hospital blast in Kabul and repaired homes of the victims of the devastating Beirut blast. 

2019: In response to Europe’s migrant crisis, The Zahra Trust held medical camps at two locations in Greece to treat acutely and chronically injured displaced people, with each clinic serving up to 100 patients per day. 

2018: Provided 400 families with food and financial support in Yemen amidst the famine. 

2017: Distributed 500 food parcels to Rohingya families in Myanmar. 

2016: The Zahra Trust constructed 27 tents and distributed emergency aid to 135 Syrian refugees in Lebanon.