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Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance to people in need.

It is usually short-term help until the long-term help by government and other institutions replaces it.

A report published by the network of European Universities on Professionalization of Humanitarian Action noted that humanitarian aid is a "fundamental expression of the universal value of solidarity between people and a moral imperative." Among the people in need belong homeless, refugees, victims of natural disasters, wars and famines.

The primary purpose of humanitarian aid is to save lives, reduce suffering and respect to human dignity.

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.

It may therefore be distinguished from development aid, which seeks to address the underlying socioeconomic factors which may have led to a crisis or emergency.

Poverty is general scarcity or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.

It is a multifaceted concept, which includes social, economic, and political elements.

Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the lack of means necessary to meet basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter.

Absolute poverty is meant to be about the same independent of location.

Relative poverty occurs when people in a country do not enjoy a certain minimum level of living standards as compared to the rest of the population and so would vary from country to country, sometimes within the same country.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States.

Founded in 1943 by the United States Council of Catholic Bishops, the agency provides assistance to 130 million people in more than 90 countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Vulnerability refers to the inability (of a system or a unit) to withstand the effects of a hostile environment.

A window of vulnerability (WoV) is a time frame within which defensive measures are diminished, compromised or lacking.

A society is a group of people involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members.

In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups.