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For World Humanitarian Day, we are shining a spotlight on 5 organizations doing incredible work and committed to making a difference.

Today is World Humanitarian Day, a day designated by the United Nations to recognize the heroes who have lost their lives facing danger to help others and to celebrate the spirit that inspires humanitarian work. Thousands of people are working around the world at this very moment in war-torn countries, to assist those in need and sometimes paying the ultimate price.

This year the United Nations and its humanitarian partners have a campaign called “The world needs more…” which is a unique project that turns words into aid.

What do you think #theworldneedsmore of? Tweet it at @UN_WHD!

We wish we could individually thank all the Humanitarian Heroes but since we can’t, we are shining the spotlight on five organizations that are doing incredible work and are committed to make a difference:

Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders helps people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from health care.

Each year over 2,000 volunteer doctors representing 45 nationalities work worldwide in front-line hospitals, refugee camps, disaster sites, towns and villages providing primary health care, performing surgery, vaccinating children, operating emergency nutrition and sanitation programs and training local medical staff.

Refugees International

Refugees International generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced people around the world and works to end the conditions that create displacement. The organization advocates for refugees through diplomacy and the press.

Each year, it conducts approximately twelve field missions to identify displaced people’s needs for basic services such as food, water, health care, housing, access to education and protection from harm.

Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger | ACF International is a global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger, saving the lives of malnourished children and providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.

The organization develops and runs emergency programs in nutrition, health, water and food security for countries in need. It also provides disaster preparedness programs with the goal of anticipating and preventing humanitarian crises.

UNICEF

UNICEF works to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child’s path by ensuring the survival, protection and development of children and advocating a high priority for them in the allocation of resources at all times.

The organization also gives relief and rehabilitation assistance in emergencies. It responds to more than two hundred emergencies every year, informing and shaping these interventions as a global leader for children.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian network that reaches 150 million people in 189 National Societies through the work of over 13 million volunteers.

The agency acts before, during and after disasters and health emergencies to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people.