News, Stories, Experiences in 2013
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2013/01/07
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“People suffer and I want to help”
2014/01/04Those who know the transit camp Bubukwanga in Uganda, where thousands of Congolese refugees live in transit, doesn’t talk about prospects. Because people do...read more - Article:
humedica press review
Dezember 20132014/01/01The humedica teams on-site as well as at the headquarters endeavor to make their news coverage as transparent and intensive as possible.read more - Article:
humedica headlines December 2013
2013/12/29+++ humedica nurse on “Ein Herz für Kinder” fundraising gala +++ Moving for the Philippines +++ Support from Oberallgäu +++ Primary school organizes fundr...read more - Article:
humedica knows about the many volunteers’ indispensability
2013/12/26If one had to find a symbolic description for the volunteers’ work, it would probably be man’s breath, while his heart would be the projects and his body th...read more - Article:
The story of Louidonne and Masila
2013/12/23Time and again, the 26-year-old student Daria Napieraj from Duisburg has taken a break from her student’s life, in order to work as a media coordinator for ...read more - Article:
Children of the humedica daycare start primary school
2013/12/20A new satchel, pencils and exercise books, a gym bag, as well as the many books – their children’s school enrolment is often quite expensive for the parents...read more - Article:
Congolese refugees in Western Uganda
2013/12/19In the small country Uganda as well, you will find people wearing a red humedica vest. In this East-African State, this relief organization supplies medical...read more - Article:
A real hope home
2013/12/17Time and again, the 26-year-old student Daria Napieraj from Duisburg has taken a break from her student’s life, in order to work as a media coordinator for ...read more - Article:
Lust for life despite a prosthesis
2013/12/14Time and again, the 26-year-old student Daria Napieraj from Duisburg has taken a break from her student’s life, in order to work as a media coordinator for ...read more - Article:
“Every single story is touching!”
2013/12/1227-year-old Judith Kühl has already travelled several times as a humedica coordinator to acute catastrophe regions, in order to manage and organize field un...read more - Article:
A new house for Orphelia
2013/12/11Time and again, the 26-year-old student Daria Napieraj from Duisburg has taken a break from her student’s life, in order to work as a media coordinator for ...read more - Article:
“That is no marketing strategy!”
An interview with Thomas Düll, chairman of the Bezirkskliniken Schwaben2013/12/09Being, from time to time, confronted with human fates, which cannot be relieved by large scale relief measures and which need individual help and care seems...read more - Article:
Many tents and a flat tyre
2013/12/06Time and again, the 26-year-old student Daria Napieraj from Duisburg has taken a break from her student’s life, in order to work as a media coordinator for ...read more - Article:
“The children suffer most!”
2013/12/03On November 8th, super-typhoon “Haiyan” hit the Philippian islands Leyte and Samar with unimaginable power and changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of...read more - Article:
humedica headlines November 2013
2013/11/28+++ association “Münchner helfen” donates 50,000 € +++ humedica managing director Wolfgang Groß receives Federal Cross of Merit +++ a little bit of Vietnam ...read more - Article:
Team of doctors helps thousands of victims
2013/11/25Unimaginable images of the catastrophe were the first impressions Dr. Margrit Wille from Dreisbach saw on November 10th in Tacloban on the Philippian island...read more - Article:
Many patients for humedica doctors
Organization has taken over “Mother of Mercy” hospital – Mobile team reaches surrounding area – Supply situation improved2013/11/18Meanwhile, 14 medically trained people, amongst them eleven doctors, and seven coordinators are working for the humedica disaster operation on the Philippin...read more - Article:
Medical ultrasonics training by German radiologist
2013/11/17In Germany, the ultrasonic device has for long currently been used by medical staff. In an Ethiopian refugee camp, however, it may appear irritating for the...read more - Article:
humedica doctors take over hospital in Tacloban
Situation in Tacloban is still serious – Relief items transport flight starting from Hamburg today2013/11/15This news represent a turning point in this disaster operation, which started last Saturday and which has already covered five days of treatment in Tacloban...read more - Article:
Third humedica team accompanies relief items transport flight
Help reaches Tacloban – Situation still tense – humedica charges Airbus A321 with urgently needed items2013/11/14During the last hours, the airlift between Manila and Tacloban, put into action by the Philippian and US army, has shown some effects: help has finally arri...read more - Article:
+++ First news coverage from Tacloban +++
Media coordinator Margret Müller reports2013/11/13Together with a humedica medical team, media coordinator Margret Müller from Berlin has been in Tacloban for three days now. This town has almost been razed...read more - Article:
BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: Forces of nature
2013/11/12It is nighttime in Germany when Typhoon “Haiyan” hits land in South East Asia for the first time. In the course of November, 8th 2013 the news will reach th...read more - Article:
humedica team of doctors treating without interruption
Terrible damage in Tacloban – Countless injured people, many casualties – “People need help urgently” – No supply with water and food2013/11/12It was the view out of the helicopter of the Philippian army which really upset the humedica field unit. They had feared the worst, but the degree of destru...read more - Article:
humedica sends team of doctors to the Philippines
Immense damage expected – First team is taking plane in a few hours2013/11/08Wind at a top speed of unimaginable 380 kilometers per hour. Sources talk about the strongest typhoon which has ever hit land. About half of the population ...read more - Article:
Food parcels distributed
2013/11/06Two kilograms of sugar, four kilos of rice, a big piece of cheese and some tuna. These things and more are in the food parcels, which humedica has been dist...read more - Article:
First-aid training in Melkadida
2013/11/04Traffic accidents, circulatory collapses, sports injuries – nearly all kinds of everyday situation are likely to confront us with a medical emergency. Corre...read more - Article:
humedica headlines October 2013
2013/10/30+++ Kollo hospital receives new ambulance +++ humedica greets students +++ new trainees in the headquarters +++ a feast for voluntary helpers ++read more - Article:
Medical aid in the Kurdish North of Iraq
2013/10/28humedica wants to extend its already intensive help for Syrian refugees. The teams with the red vests are also going to provide medical aid and organize the...read more - Article:
The war is over – the pain remains
2013/10/16The world is magnetized by Syria. The pictures in the evening TV news seem to be showing a never ending flow of suffering and destruction. Images of a civil...read more - Article:
Syrian refugees in the Bekaa valley struggle to survive
2013/10/18These days, the first snow of the year has changed the landscape into white, glittering splendor. A view which recalls us cozy evenings in front of the chim...read more - Article:
The urgency of all-round help
2013/10/14A refugee’s life is marked by lack and deprivation. The people suffer from lacking security, inexistent medical care and difficulties in food supply. A life...read more - Article:
“Geschenke mit Herz" for children in Syria
A spark of hope in the middle of war and violence2013/10/11For more than two years now, there has been a state of emergency in Syria, a terrible and cruel civil war has left its mark: more than 100,000 died, countle...read more - Article:
Armash Nalbandian, Bishop of Damascus writes open letter
2013/10/09He stayed in Germany for some days, in order to beg for help for his home country Syria, which has been torn apart by a brutal civil war. During his stay in...read more - Article:
Cheerful celebrations for the New Year in Ethiopia
2013/10/08To spend some time with the family, to eat together, to laugh together. On holidays many people look forward to a having a break from their hectic everyday ...read more - Article:
After the tragedy of Lampedusa: humedica planning to continue their help
2013/10/04Up to this day, official statements talk of 114 dead persons, among them many women and children. This is the worse catastrophe, since people have tried to ...read more - Article:
humedica headlines
September 20132013/10/02+++ last field training 2013 +++ Christmas parcels and our campaign partner BAYERN 3 +++ current blogs on humedica.org +++ firm’s outing to Munich ++read more - Article:
Three years after the flood, Charsadda is looking forward again
2013/09/27Unimaginable deluges of water. Thousands of accomodations razed. People faced with ruin. The 2010 monsoon flood in Pakistan has led to one of the worst huma...read more - Article:
“Precious work in the lives of individuals”
An interview with Steven Hofmann2013/09/21Steven Hofmann has been working for the humedica sponsorship program in Ethiopia for more than a year now. Together with his family, the 32 year-old visited...read more - Article:
Training of local staff in the refugee camp Bubukwanga
2013/09/19For the rescue teams, medical help in a refugee camp does not always mean direct treatment of the patients. Sometimes, local staff must be trained concernin...read more - Article:
BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: Disease patterns
2013/09/17Every year, 3.1 million children die as a result of malnutrition. These are shocking statistics. This number is so high that we cannot even imagine it. Some...read more - Article:
Cheerful colors at the outside
The day-care center Krushe e Vogel is gleaming in new splendor2013/09/14In the context of the yearly maintenance and reparation work, which had become necessary in the outdoor area of the humedica day-care center Krushe e Vogel,...read more - Article:
Companies sponsoring humedica: backgrounds and information
Hintergründe und Informationen2013/09/12Do something good. Help others. Show commitment. More and more companies show social responsibility and plead against poverty and need. There are many ways ...read more - Article:
Enormous generosity in Lower Saxony
2013/09/10There are many possibilities of supporting humedica. In Ankum, in Lower Saxony a Tai-Chi course took place for the benefit of the aid organization from Kauf...read more - Article:
Medical team starts work in the refugee camp Bubukwanga
2013/09/07The history of the Democratic Republic of Congo seems to be recurring: violence and fear again and again. People fleeing again and again. During the past ye...read more - Article:
The story behind the picture: Yellow boxes for the future
2013/09/05Our life is full of special moments, which stay in mind, which leave traces in our everyday lives. These may be present moments or those moments, which conc...read more - Article:
humedica teams are helping again in Uganda – “ten thousands of people are fleeing”
2013/08/29These days, the whole world is looking eagerly towards Syria, but humedica medical teams regard other regions in the world, too. Thanks to generous support ...read more - Article:
humedica headlines
August 20132013/08/28+++ another support from Kassel +++ three pallets of aid +++ secondary school in Günzburg gains 2,500 € by running for humedica +++ company Kemapack from La...read more - Article:
New friendships and a surprise
2013/08/26For two months, Heide Weishaar has been working as assisting coordinator in Lebanon in the context of the humedica help measures for Syrian refugees. In the...read more - Article:
They are laughing and thanking to make their need disappear
2013/08/23Someone who talks about his birthday in Germany mostly tells us about a relaxed day celebrated among the family with coffee and cakes. For Heide Weishaar, h...read more - Article:
Fortunate coincidence in the supermarket
2013/08/21For many people, going to the supermarket is a necessary evil. You try to push some bulky caddy and probably also your whining kids through too narrow hallw...read more - Article:
International Day of Humanitarian Aid
2013/08/19In 2008, the International Day of Humanitarian Aid was launched by the UN. This is the day, to honor the difficult work of the helpers worldwide and to make...read more - Article:
humedica is realizing help for those who escaped the collapse of the textile factory
2013/08/15The debris has long been removed, everyday life has gone back to normal. Yet, thousands of families are still suffering from the consequences of April 24, 2...read more - Article:
humedica is sending another relief shipment – support by organization action medeor e.V.
Medicine and bandaging material on the way to Syria2013/08/13This project is a big challenge for humedica: It is difficult to organize help in Syria and it is even more difficult to implement it. Moreover, there is th...read more - Article:
From the heart of Africa
An interview with Consul Liliane Balle2013/08/10Without anyone else in the world noticing it, the government of the Central African Republic has been overthrown. Presently, the country in the heart of Afr...read more - Article:
BACKGROUND: Disease Patterns
2013/08/08The number of death cases due to malaria is decreasing but that is no reason to gasp of relief. According to a survey led by the American University of Wash...read more - Article:
A new tent thanks to efficient teamwork
A report of our coordinator Steffi Gentner2013/07/29Until recently, Steffi Gentner has been working as a coordinator in the east of Lebanon where she organized medical aid for Syrian refugees on behalf of hum...read more - Article:
Cooperative partnership – an important part of humanitarian aid
A report of our coordinator Steffi Gentner2013/07/27Who else if not a participant herself knows about what is most important for on-site operations? The young postgraduate student Steffi Gentner from Konstan...read more - Article:
What’s going on in Sri Lanka?
2013/07/25“Whatever you do, do it with a smile”, that’s a well-known Sri Lankan saying. For the 20 million inhabitants of the island – state that is, most of the time...read more - Article:
Ibrahim’s wish
2013/07/22Our project coordinator Steven Hofmann’s report from Ethiopia shows us, how you can find different kinds of wishes all over the world. It’s Ibrahim’s story...read more - Article:
People like Vitaly, Tamara and Olga make the difference
2013/07/19The Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in South East Europe, which borders on Romania and the Ukraine. Its population mainly lives off farming and ...read more - Article:
humedica distributes 3.000 new kitchen sets
2013/07/17Resources available in the Ethiopian refugee camp of Melkadida are scarce and most people do not have the financial means to acquire these resources either....read more - Article:
humedica participates in large-scale vaccination campaign
2013/07/15The World Health Organisation intends to eradicate the infectious disease polio by 2018, yet two new cases of infantile paralysis in the Horn of Africa curr...read more - Article:
Students and teachers from Bad Wörishofen donate blood and do good
2013/07/11“People as well-off as we are should help others.” With these words, Ernst Schönhaar, headmaster of the association of vocational schools in Bad Wörishofen,...read more - Article:
humedica-Individual help in Serbia
Support from a Kaufbeuren orthopaedist2013/07/10How much suffering can a man endure before he collapses? Or is it the fact that suffering leads us human beings to a physical and above all emotional streng...read more - Article:
humedica staffer visits clinic in Kollo
2013/07/08The Republic of Niger ranks last on the United Nations Human Development Index. The West African desert state is among the poorest and least developed count...read more - Article:
World Refugee Day in Melkadida
2013/07/03Some days ago, we reported on the dimension of the global refugee situation, on the occasion of International World Refugee Day. Assistant coordinator Linda...read more - Article:
Light and practical help in dark times
2013/07/01Every year, humedica asks its registered volunteers for their support of a special kind of mission abroad. A kind of mission for people who, living in under...read more - Article:
humedica headlines
June 20132013/06/26+++ Brazil: Food for the body, dancing for the soul +++ 72 hours for a good cause +++ 20 pallets of dressing material for worldwide use +++ Financial suppor...read more - Article:
BACKGROUND: Diseases
2013/06/24Within our series of background articles about diseases that are common in developing countries, we would like to present you today with information about a...read more - Article:
On International World Refugee Day
2013/06/20A new UN report confirms what humedica volunteers have been describing for a long time: The number of refugees worldwide has been and still is alarming. Acc...read more - Article:
Participants from all parts of Germany
humedica disaster relief training very popular2013/06/19About 30 participants from different parts of Germany and even from Switzerland spent the past week in Kaufbeuren. The reason for their stay, during which t...read more - Article:
Talking to the managing director of humedica in Ethiopia, Motbainor Abera
2013/06/17During his stay in Germany, Motbainor Abera, humedica managing director in Ethiopia, also visited the head office in Kaufbeuren to talk to the staff there a...read more - Article:
humedica at the 116th German Medical Assembly in Hannover
Talking to Dr. Christian Scholber: “An enriching experience”2013/06/13The German Medical Assembly is one of the highlights in a physician’s annual calendar. humedica was among the organizations which had an information stand a...read more - Article:
In memory of our country director in Sudan
2013/06/12Four years have passed since our country director in Sudan, Polycarp Onsongo, died in a tragic traffic accident. For his wife Agnes and their two sons Leo a...read more - Article:
Two hands full of peas
2013/06/10Almost every day, the members of the humedica team in Lebanon visit refugee camps where they provide medical treatment for Syrian children and adults and, i...read more - Article:
“Oriental boil”: A rare diagnosis, even for experienced physicians
2013/06/06Dr. Elke Göhre is an experienced physician from Berlin. Apart from her work in Germany, she has been on several medical missions abroad with humedica. Each ...read more - Article:
BACKGROUND: Diseases
2013/06/04Cholera, malaria, meningitis, HIV – to name just a few of the diseases that occur frequently in Third and Fourth World countries. All of us have already he...read more - Article:
“Remarkable help from Kaufbeuren”
2013/06/03The supermarket company Georg Jos. Kaes GmbH, better known under the brand name V-Markt, has been involved with humedica for many years. In most cases, the ...read more - Article:
humedica headlines
May 20132013/05/31+++ "Onlooker” gets active +++ HypoVereinsbank doubles financial support +++ “Nick“ goes travelling – caps warm heads and hearts +++ An extraordinary clothe...read more - Article:
From A to Z: Antibiotics, bandaging material, canned food and more
Das Hilfsgüterlager von humedica2013/05/29They are the basic prerequisite, the core of the work of humedica: the relief supplies in the humedica storehouse. Medical aid missions could not be carried...read more - Article:
Dr. Margrit Wille about a totally “normal” day of treatment in Lebanon
2013/05/27Everyday life is marked by familiar sights, a more or less regular course of action and a particular way of living. Dr. Margit Wille worked as a medical vol...read more - Article:
Progress and new developments at the children’s day care centre
2013/05/24The positive development is obvious: New developments, tangible joy and motivation characterise almost all areas of our family sponsorship programme in Kaza...read more - Article:
A special fate receives the support of the humedica team
A report by assistant coordinator Ole Hengelbrock2013/05/22The day of action for Syria themed “Stop. Don’t look away!“ is over by now, but the situation of the civil war-stricken Syrians is still alarming. Ole Henge...read more - Article:
humedica supports Syria campaign
28 German organisations initiate “Stop. Don’t look away!”2013/05/16There is hardly any other subject with such a large, obvious and painful discrepancy between the media attention on the one hand and the almost indifferent ...read more - Article:
The importance of torch-bearers against the loss of childlike innocence
A report by assistant coordinator Ole Hengelbrock2013/05/16As an assistant coordinator, Ole Hengelbrock is involved in a humedica aid project in Lebanon where voluntary doctors give medical treatment to Syrian refug...read more - Article:
About eyes, ears and love
A report by assistant coordinator Ole Hengelbrock2013/05/15“Just two weeks ago, I was sitting in my favourite café in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg and diligently working on my bachelor thesis. When writing the last...read more - Article:
“Now I have hope that the wound will heal”
Skin graft in the desert2013/05/13A skin graft in a refugee camp is not an easy undertaking. Scorching heat, simple medical equipment and poor sanitary conditions pose a challenge to the hum...read more - Article:
Water - Elixir of Life
2013/05/10A lot of digging is going on in Ethiopia. But no, humedica has not gone treasure hunting. The purpose of all the digging is to make drinking water available...read more - Article:
What an igloo is for some, a well might be for others
2013/05/08While people in Germany meet each other at the market square, in an urban park or in the privacy of their own homes, the Inuit – the indigenous peoples of a...read more - Article:
humedica headlines
April 20132013/05/01+++ New faces in the humedica team +++ Selflessly serving their fellow-men +++ Haiti: Medical supply company Dambek donates wheelchair +++ Japan: Great prog...read more - Article:
Between emotional support and physical suffering
2013/04/29Still, the devastating civil war in Syria causes millions of people to flee to the neighbour country of Lebanon. In the terribly overcrowded refugee camps, ...read more - Article:
Women’s group knits on for a good cause
2013/04/26For more than 30 years already, 25 women from Krumbach and the surroundings meet every second Wednesday at the parish house of St. Michael’s in order to kni...read more - Article:
humedica continues to hand out solar lamps to refugees in Melkadida
2013/04/25People in Melkadida face a lack of many everyday items. They have gone through experiences like civil war, drought and fleeing over the Somali border to Eth...read more - Article:
“Thank God that fewer lives were lost than five years ago”
2013/04/23Pictures like these appear after every earthquake and yet they never lose their sadness and always call for our compassion: People who dare not return into...read more - Article:
After severe earthquake in China: humedica is planning relief efforts
2013/04/22On April 20th, the south-west of China was hit by a devastating earthquake. Since then, more than 2.000 aftershocks have repeatedly scared the population of...read more - Article:
Children’s day-care centre in Mercato has moved to a new location
2013/04/22A normal street scene in the quarter of Mercato in Addis Abeba, the capital of Ethiopia, is characterised by clay and tin houses and narrow streets. In this...read more - Article:
Extra tuition and sewing courses create new opportunities
2013/04/19In German schools it is not uncommon nowadays that extra tuition and homework assistance are offered in addition to the regular classes. Apart from that, th...read more - Article:
Deeds as a sign of charity
2013/04/17The civil war is still smouldering in the Democratic Republic of Congo although it was officially ended in 2003. Its consequences, such as more than two mil...read more - Article:
Tablets cannot alleviate all suffering
2013/04/10Political tensions have increased significantly in Lebanon since November last year. Every day, fighting rages in the area around Tripoli in the north of th...read more - Article:
Last distribution of special soup carried out successfully
2013/04/06Big, sturdy plastic buckets have become a natural part of the normal street scene in Melkadida. What happened? Soup has been handed out in the largest of th...read more - Article:
Medical treatment and distributions of relief supplies: Help was given where it was needed
2013/04/04Two severe earthquakes with a magnitude of 6 and 6.2 struck the northwest of Iran on August 11th, 2012. According to official figures published by the Red C...read more - Article:
Special donation: goats for Jijiga
2013/04/03On a regular basis, humedica coordinator Steven Hofmann visits the family sponsorship location in Jijiga to assist the local team with their questions, put ...read more - Article:
The seed is growing and budding
2013/03/28When on New Year’s Eve, we say farewell to the old year and welcome the new one, this is often accompanied by lots of resolutions and wishes. Resolutions ab...read more - Article:
humedica sends physicians to Lebanon
Aid is resumed2013/03/22There are many news reports about the brutal conflict in Syria. About government supporters and opponents. About potential attacks with chemical weapons and...read more - Article:
Imagine it is World Water Day and millions are thirsty
2013/03/21In Germany, people have quite a strange habit: when they talk about bad weather, they often mean rain. In our part of the world, rain is seen as a grumpy tr...read more - Article:
2013: The International Year of Water Cooperation
2013/03/19For the Greek philosopher and mathematician Thales of Milet it was the “principle of all things”, Leonardo da Vinci called it the “blood of the planet” and ...read more - Article:
Four years have passed since the opening of the humedica clinic
More than 70.000 people have found relief from their sufferings2013/03/15Most news regarding Western Africa currently deal with the military intervention in Mali. Mali is a country with 14.5 million inhabitants. According to UN f...read more - Article:
Opening ceremony for multipurpose building in Pooneryn
2013/03/13Pooneryn is a small town in the north of Sri Lanka. At first glance, the town is situated idyllically, surrounded by rice fields, vegetable gardens and wild...read more - Article:
Two years after the disaster the relief efforts continue
humedica supports local partners2013/03/11Two years ago, the northeast of Japan was not only hit by one, but by several disasters. On March 11th, 2011, about 130 kilometres off the Japanese coast, t...read more - Article:
Looking at the positive in life with optimism and becoming aware of the invisible
2013/03/09When sitting with Antoine de Saint Exupéry in the Sahara, under the starry sky, the little prince said: “What makes the desert beautiful […] is that it hide...read more - Article:
Individual fates in Pakistan – Against silence and oblivion
Villages in the area of Khori2013/03/08When disasters shake a country and its inhabitants, what remains is often a large number of people in need of help. Yet this totality of people is made up o...read more - Article:
humedica headlines
February 20132013/03/05+++ Teddy bears on ice – a very special free skate +++ “humedica helps us to help“ +++ humedica team day 2013: “We all pull together “ +++ Ethiopia: Larger ...read more - Article:
Individual fates in Pakistan – Let us look closely where others don’t look at all
Villages in the area of Hathango2013/03/04You are welcome to accompany us again to the life situations of some people our coordinator Dr. Toni Großhauser and Hannah Janvarious from PMS (Pak Mission ...read more - Article:
Aid for individuals paves way to a new life
Beninese nun has spine operation2013/03/01Sister Catherine Bokini is from Cotonou, the economic centre and seat of government of the West African country of Benin. The 37-year-old woman is a profess...read more - Article:
Individual fates in Pakistan illustrate need for help
Villages in the area of Hathango2013/02/25The paediatrician Dr. Toni Großhauser has been the humedica project coordinator for Pakistan for almost three years. On his missions, he has experienced a l...read more - Article:
Dental education in East Africa instead of Christmas at home
2013/02/21Together with his assistant Ute Benz, Dr. Dieter Bischofsberger, a dentist from Freiburg, went to Ethiopia to provide dental education to the families of th...read more - Article:
The diary of the humedica coordinator for Pakistan
2013/02/18Dr. Toni Großhauser ist the humedica coordinator in charge of the projects in Pakistan. Some extracts of his diary can give you an impression of the conditi...read more - Article:
Strategies are adapted to the security situation
Patrick Khamadi gives an up-to-date report on their mission to Syria2013/02/16The distributions by Patrick Khamadi and Klaus Ruhrmann in Syria are over now, both of them have returned safe and sound to Germany. Coordinator Patrick Kha...read more - Article:
This country needs our help
An update by Patrick Khamadi2013/02/15After one distribution is done, the next is lying ahead: this is the motto of our staffers Klaus Ruhrmann and Patrick Khamadi in Syria – in spite of the uns...read more - Article:
Distribution successful so far – security situation still tense
Patrick Khamadi reports from Syria2013/02/12The humedica staffers Patrick Khamadi and Klaus Ruhrmann set out for Syria last Wednesday in order to hand out the blankets and other relief supplies like w...read more - Article:
“Can you help me please?”
2013/02/11Kenneth Paul Dakat is one of the committed volunteers who went on an aid and supply mission for refugees in Sicily with humedica and Youth with a Mission (H...read more - Article:
Being able to hear is a blessing
After individual aid in Lebanon: Bashar and his family say thank you2013/02/08Till a few weeks ago, Bashar had to live almost without hearing. For a long time, no help was available for the son of a Syrian refugee family in Lebanon, b...read more - Article:
“Humanitarian aid can change people’s thinking permanently”
2013/02/04At the end of 2012, the flow of refugees from Northern Africa is unrelenting in Sicily and the effects of the economic crisis are becoming more and more obv...read more - Article:
“We promised to come back”
Soon, life-saving warmth will reach the refugees2013/02/0115.4 tons: This is the considerable weight of 9.000 warm blankets that we have been able to collect so far for the campaign “Blankets for Syria”, thanks to ...read more - Article:
Bus destination: fun
2013/01/30Addis Abeba is a very big city with many attractions for young and old. One of the highlights for the little ones is an amusement park, where we recently we...read more - Article:
Though the mourning is not over, Polycarp’s family keeps looking ahead
2013/01/28Since mid-January, Julie Lanquillon, a student of European Studies has been a trainee at the humedica department of fundraising. One of her first tasks curr...read more - Article:
Varied aid programmes thanks to the support of BILD hilft e. V. – “Ein Herz für Kinder“
2013/01/25Large aid projects normally consist of many little parts that together make up a whole. The main focus of the humedica aid project in the refugee camp of Me...read more - Article:
humedica headlines
January 20132013/01/23+++ A double thank you to the celebrating Franconians +++ Syria: “I hope to be able to come again” +++ “What should I wear?!“ +++read more - Article:
„Your presence shows the children that they are never forgotten“
2013/01/22At Christmas 2012, our local organiser, “Lin” (Indrawati Kunawi) coordinated the distribution of our “gifts from the heart” in the Indonesian town of Nias. ...read more - Article:
humedica will continue to help in Haiti
2013/01/21The fourth year after the severe earthquake in Haiti has started, so we would like to look back on what has happened in the severely-damaged paradise since ...read more - Article:
Many touching moments
A Christmas celebration in Lebanese Damour2013/01/15Jihad Nasr reports on the Christmas celebration in the Lebanese town of Damour, where many Syrian refugee children were happy about a great programme, many ...read more - Article:
Life in the destroyed paradise goes on
Three years after the disaster: humedica managing director Wolfgang Groß reports2013/01/12Three years after the massive earthquake disaster in Haiti, which on January 12th, 2010, shortly before 5 pm local time, left 330.000 dead and more than thr...read more - Article:
Interim result brings confidence: 7.780 blankets ordered
2013/01/10It has been a warm Christmas in 2012 and yet, after spending some time outside, in the winter cold, most people in Germany were probably happy about being a...read more - Article:
Gifts that sow seed of hope
2013/01/08The last piece of roast has long since been eaten. The presents have been distributed. Christmas has passed too quickly, as always. Yet although it may have...read more - Article:
About normal abnormal workdays and their challenges
2013/01/07While in Germany, at the end of November, people had to face the sudden onset of winter, the physician Sabine Kirchner found herself in Central Africa in ma...read more