Herrnhuter Missionshilfe has an emergency aid fund from which help can be provided quickly and unbureaucratically when needed. It often takes a long time for sufficient donations to be collected in Germany for an emergency situation in other parts of the world. However, people need immediate help such as food or tents, for example, after an earthquake or a hurricane. In order to be able to help quickly, Herrnhuter Missionshilfe has set up an emergency aid fund. This fund is used to provide aid directly after a disaster. Donations are then solicited for this disaster and, if possible, the direct aid from the emergency aid fund is refinanced by the donations. 

Only when the emergency fund is well filled can we provide emergency aid at short notice. Helping the poorest of the poor and helping people to help themselves always have priority.

The following is an excerpt of the disasters and catastrophes that have been supported in recent years with the help of the Emergency Aid Fund of Herrnhuter Missionshilfe:

• Support for local clinics in the cholera epidemic in Zambia in 2024 to improve medical care and prevention.
• Reconstruction and supply of food and medicine to the victims of hurricane Eta which reached the coast of Nicaragua in November 2020. Many people refused to leave their homes - also for fear of contracting the Covid 19 virus in the confines of the emergency shelters.
• Series of earthquakes in Albania in November 2019. In a joint effort with the Evangelical Alliance in Albania, which operates one of the relief collection centers in the country, needy families were located and provided with relief supplies.
• In a major fire during the night of December 30-31, 2018, the entire historic interior of the mission settlement of Wupperthal, South Africa in the Cedar Mountains, about 150 km north of Cape Town, burned down. The buildings of the Red Cedar company, from which Herrnhuter Missionshilfe purchased its rooibos products, were also destroyed.
• In September 2017, hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged large parts of the Caribbean. Homes, churches and school buildings of the Moravian Church on the islands of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix were also affected.
• Almost every year there are extreme floods in Malawi, in which sometimes the precipitation of an entire year pours down within a few days. Huge areas are then under water, and hundreds of people die every year in such disasters. The fields and the houses of about countless people are destroyed and the entire power supply is paralyzed. With temporary shelters and basic foodstuffs, initial emergency aid can be provided.