“Humanitarian aid is designed to save lives and alleviate suffering during and in the immediate aftermath of emergencies”.
Source: Humanitarian Coalition. n.d. “From humanitarian to development aid”. Humanitarian Coalition. <https://www.humanitariancoalition.ca/from-humanitarian-to-development-aid>. Accessed 16 October 2020.
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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 lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity. - Wikipedia definition
Also, Humanitarian Assistance:
Human assistance is intended to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintain human dignity during and after man-made crises and disasters caused by natural hazards, as well as to prevent and strengthen preparedness for when such situations occur. Humanitarian assistance should be governed by the key humanitarian principles of: humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence. These are the fundamental principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (RCRC), which are reaffirmed in UN General Assembly resolutions and enshrined in numerous humanitarian standards and guidelines. In this report, when used in the context of financing data, humanitarian assistance refers to the financial resources for humanitarian action.
"Defining Humanitarian Assistance." Global Humanitarian Assistance - A Development Initiative. N.p., 2017. Web. 08 May 2017.