Succor

To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city.

Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.

The person or thing that brings relief.

assistance in time of difficulty; "the contributions provided some relief for the victims"