News, Stories, Experiences in 2013
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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 ...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...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 bod...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 fo...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 par...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 fo...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 fo...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 u...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 fo...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 fo...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 thousand...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 ...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 raze...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 reac...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. Cor...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 li...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...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 ...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...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 Wöris...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...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 ...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 extraordinar...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...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 l...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...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 k...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 ...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...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...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 “ +++ Ethiopi...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 ...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 condit...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 u...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...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 o...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