So for the past five years the ARDC has provided this hope, working to empower these refugees and asylum seekers in Israel with education, community development, housing assistance and basic health needs.
In times of conflict, children and families cannot access the humanitarian assistance and basic social services - like vaccines, health care, clean water and sanitation that they so desperately need.
Over 100,000 have been dislocated from their homes in Mozambique including some 22,000 children under 5. Urgency is pervasive as the need for tents and shelter, health assistance and basic survival supplies remains acute.
Many City Council members and immigrant groups had criticized the mayor's policy as a step backward and asserted that it would discourage illegal immigrants from seeking medical assistance and other basic city services.
"The government of Chad has sent a mission and medical teams to the area and is providing food assistance and other basic supplies," a UN statement said, adding that humanitarian agencies are currently their assessing needs.
The limited number interviews conducted in certain highly affected areas, such as Aleppo and Homs, and the inability to access areas not under government control and close to the fighting lines, which are likely to have less access to humanitarian assistance and other basic services is an important limitation of the needs assessment.
World Vision brings clean water, hygiene kits, basic household items, cash assistance and other critical basic needs to families in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq to help prevent them from having to make the dangerous journey to Europe.
Other NGOs and agencies running appeals include Islamic Relief, which is fundraising for medical assistance, food parcels and basic supplies, such as blankets, for those living within and outside Syria.
Several programs have provided financial assistance in different ways e.g. Every Child Matters - tax credits to cover childcare costs, First 5 California - health insurance enrolment assistance and provision of basic family needs (food, clothing and housing).
Attacks on essential public facilities such as hospitals and schools are frequent, and the denial of humanitarian assistance and disruption of basic services such as water and electricity have been employed as a weapon of war.
In both groups, the need for assistance in basic and instrumental ADL and the performance of a self-chosen daily living task remained stable up to 6 months after baseline.
