Human Aid Now is a small grassroots charity with anbi-status registered in the Netherlands. Originally called Human Aid Now Greece, it was founded in September 2016 with the aim of supporting refugees in Northern Greece. We have since expanded to running projects throughout Greece, Serbia, France, Bosnia, Belgium and the Netherlands.

As our mission expanded, the name was changed to Human Aid Now in 2019 and projects were run throughout Greece, Serbia, France, Bosnia, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Human Aid Now has worked passionately to ensure that refugees in transit throughout Europe have access to essential products and services: food, clothing, shelter, safety, healthcare, information and education. We specialized in supporting grassroot organisations which intervene where they are most needed, both quickly and efficiently in times of crisis.

In 2024, we realized that the ngo’s in the field were evolving and often mainly requested funds or access to fundraising networks, rather than the modest amounts, hands-on support and in-kind donations we were providing. Human Aid Now therefore transferred its Grassroot Accelerator Program to a sister Dutch charity, Haella Foundation with a dedicated professional staff hoping to grow this program.

In Amsterdam, since March 2020, we support families in need – mainly without papers – who do not have access to the regular social services by providing weekly food packages and hygiene articles.

As we were addressing the hunger, energy prices soared, and we realized cold was another big problem for our beneficiaries during the winter. This led to the project ‘No Cold in the City’.

Several private donors volunteered support, leading to the projects ‘Schoolbags for children’ and ‘Clothes for children’.

We set up a small fund for activities for vulnerable 55+ beneficiaries and an Emergency Fund.

Human Aid Now is a purely humanitarian organisation. We do not take any political standpoint about the migration crisis. We work with passion and respect and we endeavour to preserve the dignity of the people we help as much as we can, and act in the most sustainable manner possible. To increase our impact, we often work in collaboration with like-minded NGOs.

Transparency is a key word for Human Aid Now. We raise money -our donors include the municipality of Amsterdam, Dutch charity funds, companies and private individuals- and we commit to funding projects in the field only if we have secured the funds to do so, usually evaluating every half year and as the situation requires. For the large Amsterdam project we are controlled by an accountant. For all projects, we report on each cent that is spent and we are always happy to answer questions and provide information on the impact of our projects.

We are committed to keep our acquisition costs and overheads below ten percent of incoming funds. Actually, we are very proud that so far we managed to keep those costs under 1%, which means that more than 99% of donations are spent on-site for the refugees. There is no remuneration or other financial incentives for the board members, nor for the director and other people involved.

All our annual reports are publicly available:

In accordance with the ANBI requirements, we publish our strategy plan. The current plan was drawn up in 2025 and is valid until 2028.
And also in accordance with the ANBI requirements, we publish our results of the last year in the ‘Standaardformulier publicatieplicht ANBI algemeen’.