relief mission
Emergency aid operation
A relief mission is an organized effort to provide aid—food, medical care, shelter, or supplies—to people affected by disaster, war, or extreme poverty.
The term applies both to the operation itself and to the group carrying it out: The relief mission arrived three days after the earthquake.
Relief missions may be military, governmental, or humanitarian in nature.
- humanitarianHelper of suffering people
- aidSupport given freely
- aid workersPeople providing humanitarian assistance
- rescueSave from harm
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
supplies · care packages · disaster · disaster zone · volunteers · boots on the ground · convoy · emergency · emergency response · refugees · refugee camp · evacuation · safe passage · food · water · shelter · crisis · trucks
- airdropsairdrop, parachute drop, supply drops, food drops, supply drop
- military servicemilitary service, active duty, deployment, tour of duty, combat duty
- missionschurch planting, apostle, convert, apostleship, evangelization
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Hostile or attacking behavior
ethnic cleansing · bombing raid · bombing campaign · raid · combat operation
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Official prohibition on trade
abandonment · withdrawal · resource extraction · neglect · exploitation
relief missionabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
neglect · desertion · non-intervention · forced displacement · deportation
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