Sufia Begum (22) with her children inside their tent at Balukhali, Coxsbazar.

Coronavirus emergency appeal

The coronavirus pandemic is devastating lives around the world, pushing healthcare services to their limits. In developing countries, the situation grows more critical every day.

Many communities across the world are already living in hunger, poverty and ill health. With limited health services, communal living and lack of basic hygiene facilities – it’s a race against time to protect and save lives.

VSO refuses to leave anyone behind. That's why our volunteers are on the front line of this crisis, sharing life-saving information to protect some of the world's most remote and vulnerable communities.

Please donate today to help save lives.

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The coronavirus will reach the poorest and hit them the hardest - please act now to help save lives

As coronavirus is beginning to take hold across Africa and Asia, the situation grows more critical every day. Reports show numbers of infections rising at an alarming rate and lockdown restrictions are causing severe disruption to people's lives.

Many of the families and communities we work with around the world, including refugees displaced by conflict or those in slum communities, live in incredibly vulnerable conditions.

With the pandemic forcing schools to close, pushing health services to their limits and stopping people from making a daily living, the impact of coronavirus is already devastating lives.

It is more important than ever that we stand side-by-side with these communities and help them through this crisis.

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On the ground

Ayesha Alam * (22) with her child in front of her cousins's tent where they are staying now. — Ayesha Alam* (22) with her child in front of her cousins's tent in Bangladesh, where they are staying now.

Through our network of local partners and community volunteers, VSO is reaching the most at risk, including the elderly, people with disabilities and marginalised communities. But we need your help.

VSO volunteers - youth, community, national and international - will be key to helping us to safely deliver support to the communities who need it most.

With your support, VSO volunteers can continue to share life-saving information, via radio and on the ground - helping people understand the symptoms of coronavirus and how to keep themselves safe.

Your support could help protect vulnerable girls and keep them learning whilst they can't go to school. It could even help to train a small business owner to make face masks and hand sanitiser, so that they can continue to make a living whilst helping to protect their communities.

The scale and pace of this crisis means we need to urgently increase our support to those who need it most. We must act now and act fast.

Please give what you can today to help us train and mobilise more volunteers and save lives.

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