Humanitarian aid
"Succour" redirects here. For the album, see Succour (album). Humanitarian aid arriving by C-130 Hercules at Rinas Airport in Albania in the summer of 2000. Many organizations engaged in assisting refugees fleeing Kosovo. A soldier gives a young Pakistani girl a drink of water as they are airlifted from Muzaffarabad to Islamabad. A young Afghan girl clenches her teddy bear that she received at a medical clinic at Camp Clark in Khost Province. Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance to people who need help. It is usually short-term help until the long-term help by government and other institutions replaces it. Among the people in need are the homeless, refugees, and victims of natural disasters, wars and famines. Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises including natural disasters and man-made disaster. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save...