World Humanitarian Day 2025: Wishes, Quotes, Status, Images, WhatsApp Status, Messages

World Humanitarian Day History

• August 19 marks the day on which the then Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Iraq, Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 22 of his colleagues were killed in the bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad. The day had been

Humanitarian Day Significance

• World Humanitarian Day aims to advocate for the survival, well-being and dignity of people affected by crises, and for the safety and security of aid workers.

World Humanitarian Day 2025 theme

• The theme of Humanitarian Day this year is #TheHumanRace. The theme highlights the immediate human cost of the climate crisis by pressuring world leaders to take meaningful climate action for the world’s most vulnerable people.
• “The climate emergency is wreaking havoc across the world at a scale that people on the front lines and in the humanitarian community cannot manage. Time is already running out for the world’s most vulnerable people — those who have contributed least to the global climate emergency yet are hit the hardest — and millions of others that are already losing their homes, their livelihoods, and their lives,” the UN website says.

Humanitarian Day quotes

• “Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love. The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.” – Mother Teresa
• “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” – Martin Luther King Jr
• “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.” – Norman Borlaug