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Emergency Relief & Rapid Response

When crisis strikes, immediate needs cannot wait.

Drought, flooding, conflict, and displacement can leave families without the essentials they depend on from one day to the next.

HARO responds with food, clean water, hot meals, cash assistance, and other urgent support based on what communities need most.

Your gift helps HARO move quickly when a crisis happens and get essential support to families when they need it most.

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HARO presents $974,710 in relief raised by the Somali diaspora in the USA to traders affected by the Waaheen market fire, Hargeisa, 2022

What your gift becomes

Every amount meets a specific need on the ground. Choose one to see how it helps.

Choose how you want to help.

From a single hot meal to a full water tanker, every gift below meets a specific need. Not sure where to give? The Rapid Response Fund lets HARO direct your gift to the most urgent need as it emerges.

HARO staff hand relief packages to families at a rapid-response distribution in MogadishuMost flexible gift

Rapid Response Fund

From $25

Be there when the next emergency happens.

When drought, flooding, displacement, or another crisis strikes, the first hours and days matter.

HARO's Rapid Response Fund gives our team the flexibility to act quickly, directing support toward the most urgent needs as they emerge.

Your gift helps HARO be ready to respond with food, water, cash assistance, and other essential support when families cannot afford to wait.

Choose an amount and help HARO respond when it matters most
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Families seated together at a HARO emergency food distribution

Hot Meals

From $10

A hot meal when there's no time to wait.

During an emergency, families may be displaced or unable to prepare food for themselves. HARO provides freshly prepared meals that are ready to eat and distributed directly to people affected by crisis.

For $10, you can provide one hot meal. $50 can provide 5. $100 can provide 10.

Choose how many meals you'd like to provide
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Every gift helps get food into someone's hands when they need it most.

Sacks of rice and jugs of cooking oil stacked in a HARO warehouse, ready for emergency distribution

Emergency Food Parcels

From $25

Put essential food in a family's hands.

When drought, displacement, flooding, or another crisis leaves families without enough food, HARO distributes Emergency Food Parcels to help meet immediate food needs.

With $25, you can provide one Emergency Food Parcel to a family facing crisis.

Choose an amount and put food in a family's hands
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Your gift helps HARO get essential food to families when they need it most.

A HARO water tanker carrying a Ramadan Relief 2025 banner delivers emergency water

Emergency Water Relief

From $25

Help get water to families when they can't wait.

When drought, displacement, or crisis cuts off reliable access to water, HARO mobilizes emergency water deliveries to communities facing urgent need.

Every gift helps deliver emergency water. With $500, you can fund a full Water Tanker delivery and help get thousands of liters of water to a community facing urgent need.

Choose an amount and help HARO get water where it's needed most
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Families supported through HARO cash assistance gather for a group photo

Cash Assistance

From $100

Help a family meet their most urgent needs.

During a crisis, families can face different and rapidly changing needs. HARO's Cash Assistance program provides financial support to eligible families so they can address essential household needs based on their circumstances.

With $100, you can help provide cash assistance for one family facing crisis. $500 can support 5 families. $1,000 can support 10.

Choose how many families to support
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Your gift helps families meet immediate needs with greater flexibility and dignity during difficult times.

From the archive

Responding when communities need us most.

For nearly two decades, HARO has responded to drought, flooding, displacement, food insecurity, conflict, and other humanitarian emergencies across the Horn of Africa.

  1. 2011Famine response: 20 emergency staff and 10 volunteers deployed across Mogadishu and southern Somalia, feeding hundreds of displaced families with partners.
  2. 2012Joint flood response with the American Refugee Committee for 21,000 people displaced by the Shabelle river in Beledweyne — relief items, a medical post and child-safe spaces.
  3. 2013Cyclone relief across Puntland after the Minnesota Somali community raised $80,000 and handed HARO $60,000 to deliver directly.
  4. 2014Gedo drought: water trucked to nine villages and food rations for 850 families.
  5. 2017Drought response across Sool, Sanaag, Mudug, Bay, Bakool and Gedo — 90+ water tankers in Sool alone, food for 400 families in Xudur and 2,000+ in Mudug — plus relief for victims of the Mogadishu bombing.
  6. 2018Gu-season floods: tents and mosquito nets for 1,000+ families in Beledweyne, food in Baardheere and Dolow; food for 250+ families in Awdal after Cyclone Sagar.
  7. 2020Relief kits of blankets, mosquito nets and insect spray for families displaced when floods submerged 75% of Afgooye.
  8. 2021Drought emergency appeals for Gedo and eastern Somaliland, and COVID-19 equipment for De Martino Hospital.
  9. 2022After fire destroyed the Waaheen market in Hargeisa on April 1, HARO delivered $974,710 in relief from the Somali diaspora in the USA to affected traders, and responded to families hit by the October KM5 bombing in Mogadishu.
  10. 2023Medicines and supplies delivered to hospitals across Sool region — Laascaanood, Garagar, Fayo and others — as conflict displaced thousands.
HARO delegation with officials at the site of the Waaheen market fire, Hargeisa, 2022
Waaheen market fire relief — Hargeisa, 2022
A HARO worker fills jerrycans from a water tanker during Ramadan relief, 2025
Emergency water relief — Ramadan 2025
Families seated with rice sacks and cooking oil under a Somalia Drought Response banner in Banadir, 2017
Drought response distribution — Banadir, 2017
HARO staff stack relief bundles during the Beledweyne flood response, May 2018
Flood crisis NFI distribution — Beledweyne, 2018
A HARO team fills tarpaulin water ponds from a tanker truck outside Balad Hawo, Gedo, 2017
Water trucking — Balad Hawo, 2017
A HARO worker lays out relief kits for flood-displaced families in Afgooye, 2020
Flood relief kits — Afgooye, 2020
A fleet of HARO-hired water tanker trucks during the Sool drought response, 2017
Tanker fleet — Sool, 2017
From the field

Hear it from HARO's founder.

On April 1, 2022, fire destroyed the Waaheen market in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Ali Abdinur, HARO's founder and CEO, explains how the Somali community in the United States raised relief funds and how the HARO team delivered them to the traders who lost everything.

Ali Abdinur on the Waaheen market fire response · HARO's founder and CEO on the relief funds raised by the Somali community in the United States and delivered by the HARO team to Hargeisa after the April 1, 2022 fire · 2:33

Beyond the emergency

Respond today. Build for tomorrow.

HARO responds when immediate needs cannot wait. As communities recover, our work continues through longer term solutions that strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to future crises.

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Your gift helps HARO move quickly when a crisis happens and get essential support to families when they need it most.

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How we use funds

Your gift delivers food, clean water, healthcare and orphan care across the Horn of Africa — with almost nothing lost along the way.

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From HARO's 2025 IRS Form 990 — $1.68M of $1.73M in expenses went directly to programs, with no fundraising costs.

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