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A Small Bear with a Big Dream: Bring Hope Home🧸💛

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A Small Bear with a Big Dream: Bring Hope Home🧸💛

Start a monthly donation from RM60 and receive Hope, a bear handmade with love by refugee communities in Malaysia. Your sustainable support helps families forced to flee find safety, protection, and a brighter tomorrow.
25 May 2026
Hope bear static visual

Hi, I’m Hope 🧸💛​

"I may be small, but I carry a big dream:​
A world without war.​
A world where every refugee feels safe.​
A world where kindness always wins.​

I was made with love by refugee communities in Malaysia, stitched carefully by hands filled with strength, resilience, and hope for a brighter tomorrow.

When you welcome me home, you're also supporting families forced to flee their homes and helping provide hope away from home."

Skills Are a Lifeline: Together As One

When refugees flee their homes, they often carry nothing but their memories, hopes, and skills.

In a world divided by conflict, every single Hope Bear is made to connect us. UNHCR Malaysia supports refugee communities to practice their heritage craft, preserve their deep connection to culture, and build self-reliance.

By showing your solidarity and supporting refugee-made crafts, you provide these artisans with a sustainable income, help them rebuild their livelihoods, and establish true independence while living in displacement.

How Your Journey of Impact Works

Step 1: Start Your Monthly Pledge

Choose to stand with refugees by starting a monthly donation from RM60. Your ongoing support gives UNHCR the predictability needed to protect families year-round.

Step 2: Welcome Hope Home

Upon three (3) consecutive successful monthly donations, your handmade Hope Bear will be delivered to your doorstep as a symbol of your shared resilience and kindness.

Step 3: Unlock Mystery Gifts

Your journey doesn't end there! For each subsequent set of three (3) consecutive successful monthly donations, you will unlock a special mystery gift (up to a maximum of 4 gifts total, including your bear).

Your RM60 Monthly Impact

Destroyed buildings and rubble fill a residential neighborhood in Tyre, southern Lebanon, on 31 May 2026 following an Israeli airstrike.

EMERGENCY RELIEF WITHIN 72 HOURS

UNHCR can reach the heart of a crisis within 72 hours. Your support helps us deliver life-saving aid exactly where the need is greatest.

Together COBEM (Coalition of Burma Ethnics Malaysia) and Refuge for the Refugees support refugees from Myanmar with livelihoods programmes

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS

Directly funds community craft initiatives, giving refugee artisans the tools, materials, and fair wages needed to support their families with dignity.

Sudanese refugee woman and her children in Gaga settlement

PROTECTION & REBUILDING

Provides critical legal protection, safe shelter, education, and healthcare access to individuals and families forced to flee conflict and persecution.

Campaign Terms & Conditions

  • The bear gift is awarded upon three (3) consecutive successful monthly donations.

  • A mystery gift is awarded upon each subsequent set of three (3) consecutive successful monthly donations, up to a maximum of four (4) gifts including the bear, per donor.

  • Failed, cancelled, or skipped debits will reset the qualification period.

  • Gifts are subject to availability and while stocks last.

  • Applicable to new monthly donors who sign up during the campaign period.

  • Campaign ends December 2026.

  • The organisation reserves the right to substitute gifts with items of similar value.