By Sarah Kruger | Executive Director
As a first responder and direct service provider, Fuel Relief Fund has been very successful achieving our mission of distributing free fuel to survivors in the wake of devastating disasters. In 2017 alone, we deployed to 3 large-scale emergencies in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico and serviced tens of thousands of impacted people, as well as humanitarian aid agencies and public facilities. Because of our hard-working staff, our committed volunteers, and especially, our generous donors, we know that when a disaster strikes we’ll be on the ground and ready to help within days.
But what does Fuel Relief Fund do in between disaster deployments? Since returning from our deployment to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, Fuel Relief Fund has been focused on developing our organizational capacities to resolve fuel challenges, not only in sudden-onset natural disasters, but also in other types of humanitarian crises such as large-scale conflicts and complex emergencies. On any given day, there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world who are suffering because they don’t have access to the fuel they need to prepare food, sanitize drinking water, heat or light their homes, or power the cars, phones and other equipment that they rely on. Fuel Relief Fund wants to change that.
In February, we forged a formal partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme, allowing us to deploy and provide expert technical support to their operations all over the world. As a result of this partnership, Fuel Relief Fund is now working alongside humanitarian partners in Yemen, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, where over 22 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. For months, the raging conflict has impeded the transport of critical aid, including fuel, to civilians across the country. The World Food Programme has called upon Fuel Relief Fund to help open up the fuel supply chain and facilitate the distribution of fuel to those who need it most.
Among other things, your donations to the FRF Core Fund are currently going to support Fuel Relief Fund's efforts to assist the World Food Programme, UNICEF and the World Health Organization in providing over 5 million liters of diesel per month to 138 hospitals and clinics and 15 water treatment plants in Yemen. This diesel will keep this critical infrastructure running so that Yemeni civilians have access to clean water and the medical care they so desperately need.
With Fuel Relief Fund’s help, this project is projected to reach between 5 and 6 million people.
We couldn’t do this without you. So, from our family to yours, thank you.
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