Fondation de France stepped up and organized fundraising, as well as assisting the victims. Prompt and effective action in the face of emergencies is the result of experience accumulated since the 1970s, which has been reinforced over time. It provides assistance during the Sahel drought in 1973, in the refugee camps in Thailand in 1980, at the chemical plant explosion in France in 2001, during the earthquakes in Haiti in 2010 and in Nepal in 2015, in the wake of hurricane Irma in the Caribbean in 2017, the floods in France in 2018 and recently the explosion that ripped through Beirut in Lebanon in 2020.
