Save Lives: Your Support, Their Survival

Save Lives: Your Support, Their Survival is Catholic Relief Services’ urgent response to an unprecedented global funding crisis that threatens millions. As humanitarian aid declines, CRS is mobilizing private support to sustain lifesaving programs that provide food, water, shelter and health care to vulnerable communities. Save Lives calls for compassion, courage and action—empowering individuals to stand in solidarity with our most vulnerable sisters and brothers around the world.

Millions of people are at risk.

Children are starving.

Families are fleeing conflict.

Entire communities are being cut off from the aid they need to survive. 

As government support declines, your compassion becomes essential. 

CRS is already on the ground—responding through trusted Church partnerships in some of the world’s most fragile places. But we cannot meet the growing need alone. 

Your generosity fills the gap.

It provides food for a hungry child, shelter for a displaced family, and clean water and medical care for communities in crisis.

You help CRS reach those in greatest need, even when other resources fall away. 

This is a moment for courage and compassion. 

This is your moment to save lives.

A rigorous study published in The Lancet estimates that more than 14 million lives could be lost over the next five years due to cuts in U.S. assistance — including 4.5 million children under age 5.

At least 95 million people are projected to lose access to lifesaving nutrition, maternal care, vaccinations, and treatment for diseases like malaria and HIV.

88 deaths every hour. That’s the current pace, according to Boston University’s analysis.

Without urgent action, the toll will keep rising. Families displaced by conflict, children facing hunger, and communities recovering from disaster are all at risk.