Committed to the sustainable development of deprived families and communities

Families Relief believes that Disasters don’t just affect individuals but they affect families and communities.

We empower, enable and strengthen the family unit, as an important entity of the social structure, and engage positively in community development in the UK and elsewhere. Our primary objective is to support the family unit as well as individual, by helping them to build a sustainable future

Our work has taken us across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East serving thousands of families with project from emergency aid to medical centres, from individual tailored schemes like school uniforms, equipment, meals and education development.

Our income generation projects ensure that individuals and families have access to the right skills which will amount to them having a sustainable economic and social development. Allowing them to develop and improve their ability to generate an income so that they are no longer dependent on aid agencies for their food and shelter.

The charity for Families around the world.

Our Mission

• To help and support the family unit to acquire basic needs such as food, water, shelter and sanitation
• To promote citizenship and positive living through teaching and training
• To engage in community development and capacity building initiatives benefiting the family unit through focusing on the positive aspects of its culture
• To encourage environmentally friendly initiatives and commit through collecting used clothing, furniture and household items for recycling and reuse
• To collaborate and cooperate with similar projects in the UK and elsewhere

Major Achievement of the past 15 years

Families Relief is a small charity with a big heart over the past 15 years we have helped many thousands of families across the world. Some of our achievements to date:

• In Bangladesh we have successfully built a school which caters for over 230 students
• Families Relief was the first charity to built a presence in Gaza since 1995, and built on this with a permanent office opened in 2004
• We have helped the Palestinians during the major crisis in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2009.
• We provide hundreds of Families with clean water on a monthly basis in Gaza, and have built water fountains in schools.
• Families Relief was one of the first charities to help the people of Faluja and has maintain a presence in Iraq helping the families and community.
• We have successfully constructed a deep well in Niger, which now provides clean water for over 2,000 villagers
• We were one of the few people in Kosovo helping over 1,000 families with food parcels
• We have successfully implement self sustained projects in Sri Lanka helping them recover after the Tsunami and return to their normal lives providing for their families.
• Families Relief reacted quickly to the earthquake in Pakistan and provided over 700 tents for families affected by the earthquake
• We pride ourselves by remaining in these countries after disasters helping the families and communities return to a life as normal as possible.

But all this would not have been achieved if you the donors had not supported Families Relief over the past 15 years. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the donors, mosques and radio stations who have continually supported us.