As part of it's Programmatic Partnership with the European Union, ACTED launched the #WhatHomeMeans campaign to give a voice to the most vulnerable displaced by conflict, disasters and persecution.
In fragile countries plagued by conflict, instability, crisis, persecution, and climatic disasters, thousands of people no longer have a home, not even a shelter, not even a place to live in safety with their families.
Having to leave one’s home, one’s village, one’s land, leaving everything behind to escape the worst is the dramatic reality of hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
Displaced people find themselves in a very vulnerable situation, with limited access to basic services such as water, food, hygiene, health care and education. Their prospects for employment and income generation are compromised, as are their prospects for return. Forced to live in precarious conditions, they are among the most vulnerable to Covid-19, other diseases and epidemics, climatic hazards and disasters. Women, children, the elderly and the disabled are particularly vulnerable and need special support.
For many of them, a camp, a displacement site or a makeshift shelter on the outskirts of a city is synonym to their survival and life.
