News, Stories, Experiences in 2015
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humedica headlines December 2015 - Part 2
Part 22015/12/28+++ Gold turns into money for people in need +++ Commitment out of conviction +++read more - Headlines:
humedica headlines December 2015 - Part 1
Part 12015/12/25+++ Pictures from Nepal auctioned off for the benefit of humedica +++ Christmas donation of the Caverion Deutschland GmbH Competence Center for Large Scale ...read more - Interview:
Three questions to … Dr. Markus Hohlweck
2015/12/22The refugee camps in the Lebanon, the typhoon on the Philippines or the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal: in the course of the last years the internist Markus...read more - Project Stories:
Haiti: Time for new colours
humedica finisheds reconstruction of school in Meyer2015/12/17„Time does not heal everything, but eventually it withdrawals the incurable from the centre.“ This quotation of the German philosopher and author Ludwig...read more - Project Stories:
Hamburgian pupils ran and collected 37.000 Euro for humedica
Hamburgian pupils ran and collected 37.000 Euro for humedica2015/12/15There are many possibilities and ways to help people in need and so humedica helpers regularly enjoy inventive and elaborate fundraising campaigns, which su...read more - Project Stories:
Uganda: Mzungu, how are you?
A review by humedica volunteer Martin Sellesk2015/12/11A new scope of duties, resourcefulness and adventurous excursions – the first intervention of humedica volunteer Marin Sellesk took him to Uganda. He summ...read more - Article:
Ethiopia: The story behind the picture
2015/12/08„This time I went along with humedica to Melkadida in Ethiopia, where a local team treats the 40.000 refugees, who come for the main part from Somalia, in...read more - Article:
humedica headlines November 2015
2015/11/27+++ joinery with a heart +++ donation instead of gifts: Johannes Kiehl KG realises Christmas donation +++ sheepworld AG once more supports „Present from t...read more - Article:
Togo: When sleeping becomes unbearable
A review by humedica volunteer Susanne Hausmann2015/11/25In the prisons of many developing countries fair jurisdiction and optimistic future prospects are rare. Desperately overcrowded penal institutions force peo...read more - Article:
Give a donation instead of a gift!
Help now by making a Christmas donation!2015/11/19The further the year moves ahead, the more companies have to think about how to thank clients, employees or business partners and to give them a special tre...read more - Article:
Lebanon: „The best I could do“
A review by humedica physician Matthias Schweikhart2015/11/10For four weeks Matthias Schweikhardt, a medic from Kiel in Germany, voluntarily assisted the humedica refugee relief team in the Lebanon. In his personal re...read more - Article:
Philippines: Two years after typhoon „Haiyan“
Step by step back to normality2015/11/06Two years ago, typhoon "Haiyan" raged over the Philippines. His disastrous outcomes affect the people until today. But reconstruction goes on and new hope i...read more - Article:
humedica Headlines October 2015
2015/10/29+++ Full commitment in Eastern Allgäu +++ New playground for the Kosovo +++ Flying pets for humedica +++ Support from the Baleares +++read more - Article:
Comment: Higher? Faster? Farther? Scared!
Why do we refuse to make full use of our performance potential in the current situation?2015/10/22The call reached us at Berlin in the middle of keynotes, cookies and a surely valuable exchange. The “Humanitarian Convention”, deeply rooted in the cap...read more - Breaking News:
BREAKING: humedica intensifies support for refugees
Focus on Serbian border area - situation changes daily – new team starts on Tuesday2015/10/19Since about five weeks humedica medical teams engage on the socalled Western Balkan route. After field employments in Hungary, Serbia and Croatia, for ten d...read more - Article:
Inconceivable situation at the Serbian-Macedonian border
Inconceivable situation at the Serbian-Macedonian border - Registration of the refugees causes bottleneck – desperate help forces - supply situation extremely strained2015/10/13Since the middle of September humedica rescue teams working within mobile clinics take care of refugees at several points of the so called Western Balkan ro...read more - Article:
The Dillinger Franciscan Sisters and humedica
The Dillinger Franciscan Sisters and humedica2015/10/13If you take a closer look at humedica´s history, you will find certain partners and players, who stand out and play a key role in the development of the re...read more - Article:
Nepal: Supporting traumatized children
2015/10/07Laughing children running across a school yard, happy faces watching a puppet show, boys and girls singing and dancing out of joy – these are not pictures...read more - Article:
+++ Breaking: humedica sends doctors to Serbia +++
2015/09/17Because of the worsening situation, the conclusions made by a reconnaissance team and a precise demand by the UNHCR, humedica has decided to send an experie...read more - Article:
Five times Paul in Nepal
2015/09/22Also five months after the heavy earthquake in Nepal, the situation of many victims of this catastrophe improves only slowly. The government and many nation...read more - Article:
Refugee aid in Italy
2015/09/08While thousands of refugees have reached safe ground in Germany these days and have finally, after sometimes months of a veritable odyssey, found shelter ag...read more - Article:
humedica opens health center in the Ethiopian refugee camp Kobe
Medical help for East Africa2015/09/01humedica has expanded its activities at the Horn of Africa and has opened a new health center in the big refugee camp Kobe, near the Ethiopian – Somalian ...read more - Article:
humedica headlines August 2015
2015/08/20+++ Looking for family sponsors in Nepal! +++ Still free places at the humedica field staff training 2016 +++ Refugee help at a hotspot +++ 34 tons of help ...read more - Article:
Lebanon: Routine in a state of emergency – Part 2
2015/08/24After her five-week-long help commitment for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, our coordinator, Nora Parasie looks back and remembers one day in camp number 15. A...read more - Article:
Lebanon: Routine in a state of emergency - Part 1
2015/08/21Normally, Nora Parasie from Hamburg works as a teacher at a primary school. But instead of relaxing from the everyday life at school during the summer holid...read more - Article:
World Humanitarian Day
World Humanitarian Day2015/08/19Be it in Syria, Nigeria, Ukraine or in Yemen: These days, more and more countries and regions in the world have descended into a downward spiral of distress...read more - Article:
Philippines: New houses for a new life
20 new accommodations handed over to victims of typhoon “Haiyan”2015/08/14Like so many other things, you will probably really appreciate the value of a home, a place where you can return to after a long working day and find privac...read more - Article:
Ethiopia: Those who heal are right
One day in the refugee camp Melkadida2015/08/11The work as a coordinator in a remote refugee camp holds several unexpected experiences and challenges. Our coordinator in the Ethiopian – Somali refugee ...read more - Article:
Interview: “Tuberculosis is an illness that goes along with poverty”
An interview with Tuberculosis expert, Prof. Timo Ulrichs2015/08/07More than nine million people contract tuberculosis every year, about 1.5 million of them died of this illness, which in fact is curable, in 2003. That’s ...read more - Article:
“Facets of war:” What remains?
2015/07/31In the fifth and last part of our series about the civil war in Syria and its victims, we focus on the inevitable question about the future development for ...read more - Article:
humedica headlines July 2015
2015/07/28+++ Donations instead of gifts in Augsburg +++ Collecting 12,000 Euros by running for Nepal +++ Zimbabwe: a new start for the “Mt. Mellary" orphanage +++ ...read more - Article:
Kosovo: "The biggest problems are the traumata"
A review by humedica doctor Caterina Schulte-Eversum2015/07/21The distress of the people in Kosovo is not always visible at first sight. After all, this small Balkan state is situated in the middle of Southern Europe a...read more - Article:
“Facets of war”: Keeping the focus
2015/07/14For four years already, the Syrian conflict, which is getting ever more brutal and desperate, has forced its population to flee the country. Far away from t...read more - Article:
Returnable bottles for the good cause
Ladies’ Circle 19 Kempten supports humedica2015/07/10Not long ago, the management of Ladies’ Circle 19 from Kempten with its president, Karin Steybe has been able to hand over the sum of 500 Euros to Cecilia...read more - Article:
Help for individual cases: Alena’s story
Current help for individual cases2015/07/09Fast, sustainable and comprehensive help for as many people as possible. This is the objective for which the full-time as well as the voluntary humedica fie...read more - Article:
Chad: Variegated help
2015/07/07For two months, the student of medicine and children’s nurse, Anna Traunspurger from Munich has left back her everyday life and has supported the humedica...read more - Article:
Lebanon: Do you want to be my new mum?
2015/07/03As a coordinator, Carolin Gißibl has been committed at our various projects in Lebanon. She has brought many touching experiences back home to Germany. One...read more - Article:
Nepal: An unexpected commitment
2015/06/29The nurse Annette Weiberle from Stuttgart hadn’t expected any longer going on an operation with a medical team, when she received another call from the hu...read more - Article:
humedica headlines June 2015
2015/06/26+++ Once again the Lions from Rheda-Ems have helped +++ Württembergische Versicherung AG supports humedica +++ Thank you from Liberia +++ Refreshing help ...read more - Article:
Two months after the earthquake: humedica continues its aid
2015/06/25Exactly two months after the big earthquake in Nepal, the different kinds of help have developed: catastrophe help is becoming projects in the field of deve...read more - Article:
“Facets of war”: No way back
2015/06/19In the third part of our series, we are looking at the adult refugees in Lebanon. At parents, who have lost their children in the confusion of the war and o...read more - Article:
Ukraine: Help on the margins of society
2015/06/17After providing comprehensive catastrophe help on the Philippines and in Liberia, humedica doctor Sabine Kirchner has now gone on a humanitarian interventio...read more - Article:
Nepal: And then everything turned out differently
2015/06/09Initially, humedica doctor Thomas Katzenbach wanted to travel to Romania in the mid of May, in order to treat needy persons in prisons and children’s home...read more - Article:
Interview: “The bad situation takes away all the hope!”
An interview with humedica doctor Armond Ghazari2015/06/05Some weeks ago, the sudden flow of refugees from Kosovo to Western Europe caused some headlines. The reasons of the Kosovars were analyzed and fast deportat...read more - Article:
Nepal: “A correct and important operation!”
2015/06/03As the earthquake in Nepal had caused great distress and destruction, it has been immediately clear to surgeon Hansi Sobez that she wanted to help the peopl...read more - Article:
“Facets of war”: Braving distress with a smile
2015/06/01In the second part of our series we focus on the youngest members of the Syrian refugee population: the children. According to UNICEF information, 7.5 milli...read more - Article:
humedica headlines May 2015 – Part 2
Part 22015/05/28+++ “Give back helpfulness” +++ From Allgäu to Orient: 7,777 km for a good cause +++ “It is our obligation to help” +++ Company Knestel Elektronik ...read more - Article:
humedica headlines May 2015 – Part 1
Part 12015/05/26+++ Tents as a safe shelter: Intersport Hofmann supports earthquake help +++ Doubled help: HypoVereinsbank staff gives donation for humedica +++ Doing good...read more - Article:
Nepal: “The ground beneath my feet trembled!”
2015/05/21In order to help the people concerned by the earthquake during the hard days after the catastrophe, the nurse Linda Holzhausen has travelled to Nepal togeth...read more - Article:
“Facets of war”: A country at the edge of a breakdown
2015/05/19For four years already, the Syrian conflict, which is getting ever more brutal and desperate, has forced its population to flee the country. Far away from t...read more - Article:
Nepal: Earth shakes again
“Must be seen as another catastrophe” – humedica team strongly involved in Nepal2015/05/12On Tuesday morning the earth in Nepal shook again. With a strength of 7.3 on the Richter scale this new quake was immensely intense must thus be regarded as...read more - Article:
humedica-Schlagzeilen April 2015
2015/05/04+++ Valuable help from Hessen +++ pupils show a heart of gold +++ company Hotelwäsche Erwin Müller from Wertingen supports humedica +++ SCA donates hygien...read more - Article:
Nepal: humedica field team starts emergency relief
Second team is following with aid supplies – enormous destruction in the earthquake zone2015/04/28They had reached the airspace over Kathmandu already in the night of Sunday to Monday, but couldn’t land because of too much air traffic. After a second v...read more - Article:
Nepal: humedica sends help
Number of victims increasing – important destructions2015/04/25After a heavy earthquake has happened in the metropolis region Kathmandu, Nepal, humedica is sending a medical field team, which is starting from Frankfurt ...read more - Article:
Ethiopia: At the Kara’s in Omo valley
A review of humedica doctor Eva Scharf-Hofner2015/04/25Along the Omo river, in the south-west of Ethiopia, lives the small ethnic group Kara. Isolated and nearly untouched by civilization, they have hardly any a...read more - Article:
Ethiopia: Fighting against a cruel tradition
2015/04/23These are frightening data: According to official declarations, there are 125 million girls and women suffering from the consequences of female genital muti...read more - Article:
Help for individual cases: Janelle’s new life
Current help for individual cases2015/04/20Fast, sustainable and comprehensive help for as many people as possible. This is the objective for which the full-time as well as the voluntary humedica fie...read more - Article:
Malawi: A catastrophe off the public view
2015/04/16For more than three weeks, humedica field staff member, Tobias Dolpp has coordinated the distribution of aid supplies in Malawi, after heavy rains had flood...read more - Article:
Niger: Solar energy plant assures electricity supply for humedica clinic
2015/04/14Thinking about Niger is surely also thinking about the climate of this West African country, which can mainly be characterized by two attributes: hot and dr...read more - Article:
Philippines: New health centers for Leyte and Samar
2015/04/09When a catastrophe like a tsunami or an earthquake hits a country, we often think about the immediate consequences: How many victims and injured persons are...read more - Article:
Brazil: Carnival and maniocs
2015/04/07For one year now Rebecca Groß, the daughter of humedica managing director Wolfgang Groß has lived in the Brazilian town Nova Friburgo, in order to work fo...read more - Article:
humedica headlines March 2015
2015/04/01+++ successful help after floods in Malawi +++ company orochemie donates 7,000 Euro worth of disinfectants +++ Georg Jos. Kaes GmbH supports humedica proj...read more - Article:
Vanuatu: Water and food are lacking
humedica commitment after cyclone “Pam” – Vanuatu in distress2015/03/20Nearly one week after the devastating cyclone “Pam” has hit the group of islands Vanuatu in the South Pacific, there are still big problems with the sup...read more - Article:
Albania: The story behind the picture
The story behind the picture2015/03/18There are moments in life which stay in our memory. Images, which influence us sometimes in a pleasing and sometimes in a depressing way and which make us t...read more - Article:
Vanuatu: humedica sends team of doctors
2015/03/15The destructions are immense, the number of dead people is still not clear. Large parts of the infrastructure in the archipelago Vanuatu have been destroyed...read more - Article:
Pakistan: Landmark help to help themselves
2015/03/12For nearly five years now, humedica coordinator and pediatrician, Dr. Toni Großhauser has been responsible for the different help projects in Pakistan. In ...read more - Article:
Malawi: A sign of hope
2015/03/09The heavy floods in Malawi at the beginning of this year needed quick action and directed help. humedica has reacted immediately and, with Heinz Horsch, has...read more - Article:
Interview: Hopeless and desperate
An interview with the head of the humedica daycare center in Kosovo, Alban Bytyqi2015/03/06In Kosovo more and more people are packing their belongings and leave their country, heading for Western Europe. They are also carrying with them the hope f...read more - Article:
humedica headlines February 2015
2015/03/02+++ Big help thanks to small delicacies +++ Donor of warmth from Füssen +++ Interest and readiness to help others in Marktoberdorf +++read more - Article:
Kosovo: Escape in vain
2015/02/27Kosovo has been an independent state for seven years now. An independence which has also meant an end to the violent conflicts, a martyr lasting for years, ...read more - Article:
Albania: Flood catastrophe after long-lasting rain
2015/02/25Unrecognized of the world public, an enormous flood catastrophe has happened in Albania these days. After long-lasting heavy rains during the last weeks, la...read more - Article:
Ethiopia: New outlooks in Melkadida
2015/02/16We choose its form and color according to our personal taste, perhaps we own more than one and from time to time we swap them for contact lenses. Obviously,...read more - Article:
humedica comment: Why the Ebola catastrophe has not yet been overcome
2015/02/12Turning point, gasp of relief, all clear. The words we currently hear in media reports on the Ebola subject are predominantly conveying a positive connotati...read more - Article:
Geschenk mit Herz: More Christmas parcels than ever before
2015/02/10For eleven years already humedica has brought Bavarian Christmas joy to needy children in Eastern Europe and in chosen project countries with its campaign ...read more - Article:
Philippines: One meal for sure
2015/02/09When typhoon “Hagupit” was heading towards the east coast of the Philippines at the beginning of December 2014, the fear was great. The devastating supe...read more - Article:
Sicily: Help for a new start
2015/02/06Day after day refugees in overcrowded boats reach the Italian border. They arrive at the end of a long odyssey across the Mediterranean. For those who manag...read more - Article:
Malawi: Rain continues falling
2015/02/04The rain in Malawi won’t stop. Since the beginning of the yearly rain period, the inhabitants of the landlocked African country have suffered unusually he...read more - Article:
humedica headlines January 2015 – part 1
Part 12015/01/29+++ Together for one objective: Crossing the Alps by bike +++ New Apostolic church South Germany supports humedica +++ Making party and doing good: the Lud...read more - Article:
Malawi: Help for the flood victims
Massive floods in the south of the country – distribution of aid supplies for affected persons2015/01/26Disaster alarm in Malawi: Continuing heavy rain has led to big floods in many parts of the south-east African country. Ten thousands of people had to leave ...read more - Article:
PFI Sudan: Medical care and an open ear
2015/01/24humedica has been related to the north-African country Sudan by one of the longest and most comprehensive projects in its history. As a reaction to the year...read more - Article:
Zimbabwe: The right to a safe home
2015/01/22According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child each child has the right to a family, parental care and a safe home. Principles which seem normal ...read more - Article:
Hunting for scores and doing good
2015/01/19By organizing a big fund raising campaign for the fight against Ebola in October last year, the responsible persons at the Eissportverein Kaufbeuren e.V. (i...read more - Article:
Help for individual cases: Senait and breast cancer
Current help for individual cases2015/01/16Fast, sustainable and comprehensive help for as many people as possible. This is the objective for which the full-time as well as the voluntary humedica fie...read more - Article:
Haiti: Five years after the earthquake
Then and now2015/01/12On January 12th, 2010 the earth shook on Haiti, as it had never done before in America’s history. With a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale, the earthq...read more - Article:
Development cooperation: Eight objectives for the future
2015/01/092015 will be an important year for international development cooperation, a field of activity which is becoming more and more important for the work of hume...read more