A History of The Zahra Trust Emergency Response 

2026: As the humanitarian crisis across the Middle East continues to escalate, with an estimated over 1.3 million displaced and families lacking access to basic necessities, we are delivering urgent, life-saving support. This includes food parcels and hot meals, mattresses and blankets for shelter, heating supplies, medical aid and other essential items such as baby milk and diapers to help vulnerable families cope with ongoing hardship. 

2026: Ground teams in Pakistan responded within hours of attack in Islamabad, providing emergency medical support, trauma support, essentials and support for families of the wounded and deceased. 

2025: In response to severe flooding across Southern Punjab, Pakistan and wider parts of Asia, which displaced hundreds of thousands of people and devastated homes and livelihoods, we delivered rapid relief through temporary shelter and housing reconstruction, food distribution and winter support to help families recover and rebuild. 

2025: As parts of the Middle East faced a prolonged humanitarian emergency, leaving families displaced and struggling with poor nutrition and limited access to essentials, we implemented targeted health support. This included distributing multivitamins to women and children in addition to hygiene kits to improve wellbeing and reduce the risk of illness. 

2024: Following the targeted bombing of a public vehicle in Dasht-e-Barchi, Kabul, Afghanistan, leaving 13 injured and one dead, we provided critical support to the affected Shia community.

2024: In response to ongoing violence in Parachinar, Pakistan, where 42 have been martyred and over 164 injured, we have delivered urgent relief to families enduring unimaginable suffering.

2024: After the brutal attack on a Shia mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, which claimed six lives, including a three-year-old, we provided emergency aid and support to the grieving community.

2024: As Lebanon endured a severe humanitarian emergency, we delivered vital aid, including medical supplies, food, and shelter, to support the overstretched healthcare system and affected communities.

2023: Following the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan on Saturday, 7th October 2023, which claimed over 2,000 lives, leaving thousands injured, and destroying many homes, we responded by providing emergency aid, including critical supplies and rebuilding efforts in the Herat region.

2023: In response to a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Turkiye and Syria, we provided food parcels, shelter, water, medical aid and other essentials for the families affected.

2022: Responded to extreme flooding in Pakistan & Afghanistan that affected over 33 million people, providing shelter, water, food and hygiene kits.

2022: In response to a devastating 6.1 magnitude earthquake killing over one thousand, our team quickly deployed to provide emergency assistance to those impacted by the natural disaster.

2022: Responded to deadly attack on worshipers at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan; as the first NGO on the scene, we provided both immediate and long-term assistance to those affected.

2021: Responded to the deadly new variant of COVID-19 in India that left the nation struggling to cope, providing hospitals with hundreds of oxygen tanks, oximeters and concentrators.

2020: Built homes for victims of the maternity hospital blast in Kabul and repaired homes of the victims of the devastating Beirut blast.

2019: In response to Europe’s migrant crisis, The Zahra Trust held medical camps at two locations in Greece to treat acutely and chronically injured displaced people, with each clinic serving up to 100 patients per day.

2018: Provided 400 families with food and financial support in Yemen amidst the famine.

2017: Distributed 500 food parcels to Rohingya families in Myanmar.

2016: The Zahra Trust constructed 27 tents and distributed emergency aid to 135 Syrian refugees in Lebanon.