The number of people affected by humanitarian crises who urgently need a place to shelter, It is more than double what it was five years ago.warns the NGO Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), which warns that Current funding is not sufficient to meet these growing needs.
According to a study published this Tuesday by the organization, Shelter needs are already more than double what they were in 2019when 37.5 million people needed a place to protect themselves, have privacy and feel safe.
If urgent solutions are not offered, the NGO estimates that By 2025 there will be 91 million people who will need shelter, after being affected by the different humanitarian crises active around the world.
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One of these crises is that of Sudanwhere the conflict that since 2023 has faced the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR) has already forced more than 14 million people to flee the countrymany of whom, NRC warns, have lost their homes and remain overcrowded in infrastructure “not designed for prolonged human stay.”
“Shelter is more than four walls and a roof,” recalled in this sense the global head of shelter and settlement at NRC, Amelia Rule, who highlighted that these places provide not only “greater security” to people, but also “dignity and a safe place to recover from trauma.”
To ensure access to these shelters, NRC teams They are working on the ground in several of these emergencies to reach affected people.
However, they warn that, although the number of people in need of shelter has not stopped growing in the last five years, the same has not happened with the financing to care for them, which, for example, This year it has only been covered by 27% of the total requested for 2024.
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Faced with this situation, NRC called for increasing aid “urgently”, especially to provide emergency shelter to people who are unprotected before winter arrives, as well as to provide them with “long-term” solutions afterwards.
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