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humedica headlines December 2018
2018/12/31+++ travellunch for humedica EMT +++ New Apostolic Church donates 10.000 Euro for Indonesia +++ Gartencenter Gilg sells mulled wine for the benefit of humed...read more - Breaking News:
Tsunami wave: humedica sends out aides to Indonesia
Number of victims increases – intervention team will assist medical helpers from local partner Karya Alpha Omega Foundation2018/12/23Some hours ago, the eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcano and the subsequent underwater landslide have caused a powerful tsunami, which, without warning, hi...read more - Video:
Merry Christmas – Season´s Greetings from Wolfgang Groß
2018/12/212018 was an eventful, moving, by all means challenging year, in which we were once again able to support people undergoing various, often life-threatening h...read more - Video:
TEAMS training: How humedica experienced the disaster training
2018/12/19The TEAMS pilot training in September 2018 was a great challenge with regard to many aspects – logistic and organisational, but especially personal for ou...read more - Project Stories:
Help for the Yemen
humedica sends out second relief goods transport including important cholera medicine2018/12/18After the first relief goods supply covering of 17.5 tons of important medicine, infusion devices and solutions in July 2017, humedica has send out another ...read more - Video:
TEAMS training: a review
2018/12/13For many people the end of the year is the time to review the last months and to range in all what has been said and done. In 2018 for humedica the focus ha...read more - Get involved:
Your christmas donation: Give Sensibly
Give SensiblyÜberraschen Sie Ihre Mitarbeiter und Geschäftspartner oder auch Ihre Familie und Freunde zu diesem Weihnachtsfest mit einem Geschenk der besonderen Art: S...read more - Get involved:
Time to say "Thank You"
Engaged for the good cause all the time: the volunteers of humedica2018/12/05The 5th of December is the world day of Volunteering. Honestly: Could you imaging humedica without the many volunteers – here in the Kaufbeuren headquarte...read more - Interview:
"Wind of Change" in Pakistan
3 questions to … humedica corporate communications manager Heinke Rauscher2018/12/04Pakistan and its inhabitants have to meet many challenges in various fields – developmentally as well as with regard to the extreme consequences of the gl...read more - Headlines:
humedica headlines November 2018
2018/10/02+++ Little ones acting big +++ Gospel Works sings for humedica +++ Sparkasse piggy bank for humedica +++ Flee market for paintings +++ Team building with Al...read more - Event:
FC Bayern Women: Free admission for parcel packers
FC Bayern Munich women´s teams support the Christmas parcel campaign „Present from the heart“2018/11/30This year again the FC Bayern München soccer players support the humedica campaign „Present from the heart“. Together with the second team and both U17...read more - Project Stories:
Prison mission in Sudan
Field report of humedica doctor Ruth Weber2018/11/22Field report of humedica doctor Ruth Weber who traveled to Sudan with a team of doctors and nurses to provide medical assistance in prisons.read more - Project Stories:
Sicily: help right from the heart
Project visit to the humedica refugee aid in ItalyAlthough at the moment hardly any new refugees arrive in Europe, the situation remains tense and insecure for the people, who have mastered the dangerous ro...read more - Video:
"Present from the heart" in the Christmas parcel city of Deggendorf
Big family party at the "Obere Stadtplatz"2018/11/12At the „Obere Stadtplatz“ in Deggendorf, Germany, hundreds of people have celebrated with humedica the start of the parcel collection for „Present fro...read more - Video:
Words of consolation and gratitude in Indonesia
2018/11/09Non Rawung, head of our Indonesian partner organization Karya Alpha Omega Foundation, is visiting the disaster region in Sulawesi. She is very moved by the ...read more - Interview:
Update Indonesia: How are the people in Sulawesi doing?
Three questions to… humedica project coordinator and intervention team member Yvonne Michel2018/11/08Two heavy earthquakes measuring more than 7.0 on the Richter scale and a subsequent tsunami have caused massive havoc by the end of September within very sh...read more - Project Stories:
Reconstruction support after earthquake in Iran: the houses are getting ready!
humedica employee Johanna Bischoff reports about her project visit2018/11/07The 12th of November 2017 a heavy earthquake hit the North West of Iran. Along the Iraqi border the city Sarpol-e Zahab and its surrounding area was particu...read more - Video:
Medical help for women and children in the Niger
An important contact point for people living around Kollo: the humedica hospital2018/11/05Yacouba Seydou, head of Hosanna Institut du Sahel in the Niger, has recently visited our humedica headquarters in Kaufbeuren, Germany. In the following inte...read more - Headlines:
humedica headlines October 2018
2018/10/02+++ Finally packing gifts again: "Present from the heart" ready to start +++ Dancing for humedica +++ A visit of the „Herzensmenschen” +++ A lot of hope...read more - Video:
Update Indonesia: Medical care and trauma relief
2018/10/08Together with the aides of our partner organization Karya Alpha Omega Foundation our intervention team members Yvonne Michel, Daniel Warkentin and Dr. Marku...read more - Video:
Update Indonesia: Moving impressions from Palu
Speechlessness and hope2018/10/04From a mixture of speechlessness and hope derives determination. With every hour the overview of the situation in the disaster area is improving – as well...read more - Breaking News:
Update Indonesia: the region is in shambles
Massive destruction and great challenges2018/10/03Our three brave intervention team members Yvonne Michel, Daniel Warkentin and Dr. Markus Hohlweck have already passed their first day in the disaster area. ...read more - Article:
humedica headlines September 2018
2018/10/02+++ Johannesbad Gruppe donates 2.500 Euro for hospital sponsorship in Haiti +++ #nichtvergesser exhibition at Kreis- und Stadtsparkasse Kaufbeuren +++ Guest...read more - Interview:
3rd Golf Cup Open for the benefit of humedica
Three questions to Dr. med. Astrid Offer2018/09/28For the third time already the 52-year-old medical specialist Dr. Astrid Offer from Cologne in Germany, a longstanding supporter of our work and founder of ...read more - Event:
Guest at the WHO: Wolfgang Groß receives EMT certificate
2018/09/26In June already the humedica team had been certified as member of the international World Health Organisation initiative. Now Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...read more - Video:
Typhoon "Mangkhut": How are the people in the Philippines?
2018/09/25For the people in the Philippine province Benguet, who long for a rest after the typhoon “Mangkhut”, there is no end in sight yet. After a landslide had...read more - Video:
Typhoon "Mangkhut": devastating effects in Benguet
2018/09/24Together with our partner organization PHILRADS the humedica intervention team members Christiane Bähr and Felix Mittag are on site in the Benguet region. ...read more - Background:
Typhoon "Mangkhut": humedica intervention team reports from the Philippines
2018/09/21Only one week ago the super typhoon "Mangkhut" has hit the Philippines with wind velocities of more than 250 kilometres. The experienced intervention team m...read more - Breaking News:
Typhoon "Mangkhut" in the Philippines: help is on the way
Focus on distribution and reconstruction2018/09/17It is hurricane season and they have got the lot, this year again: this time of the year the USA are usually prone to heavy storms. But they often hit the n...read more - Article:
TEAMS training: Goodbye Montyland
2018/09/13Shortly before the end of the TEAMS training, our six-person intervention team was challenged one last time: following a last incident the scenario required...read more - Press Releases:
Kreis- und Stadtsparkasse Kaufbeuren hosts #nichtvergesser exhibition
2018/09/12A thick knot in a no less thick rope – this is the symbol of the fascinating photo exhibition at foyer of the Kreis- und Stadtsparkasse Kaufbeuren: an out...read more - Event:
Neugablonz street party 2018
2018/09/12Last Sunday it happened once again: for the 11th time already humedica took part in the Neugablonz street party. Thanks to the great commitment of our volun...read more - Video:
TEAMS training: our intervention team practices the real case
2018/09/06Near the humedica intervention camp an earthquake caused the collapse of a three-storey building. Light and severely injured people, partly panicking, are l...read more - Video:
TEAMS training: and the earth trembles again
2018/09/05The second day of the training brought on new challenges: following some theoretical courses and the installation of the camp yesterday (Tuesday), our inter...read more - Video:
TEAMS training: arrival in Montyland
2018/09/04Following an exciting first day, in the course of which they had got to know each other and the planned agenda of the event, the participants of the interna...read more - Video:
Flood relief India: Intervention report by the medical team of humedica in Kerala
It is raining again in the South Indian state of Kerala. But the situation after the massive floodings is calming down steadily. The people now start to sor...read more - Press Releases:
humedica hosts the international TEAMS trainings
Humanitarian workers from all over the world come to IrseeThis year in June humedica was the third German organisation to be certified by the World Health Organization (WHO). Now the Kaufbeuren employees have to fa...read more - Background:
humedica India intervention team reaches Vandiperiyar
Our five-person humedica India intervention team has arrived safely in Vandiperiyar. „The situation here in the village has already stabilized a bit“, r...read more - Breaking News:
humedica India sends out medical team to help flood victims in Kerala
2018/08/20humedica India sends out an intervention team to the South Indian state of Kerala, where more than 800.000 people had to be evacuated due to massive floodin...read more - Background:
Update from Lombok: Help continues
In the meanwhile our partner organization Karya Alpha Omega Foundation is operating with two medical teams in the East of the island. Last Thursday, the pra...read more - Background:
Earthquake relief intervention Indonesia: Update by our partner organization
Even so the medical humedica team has in the meanwhile safely returned to Germany due to the directive of the Indonesian government that international teams...read more - Blog:
Intervention blog Indonesia
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At work for the humedica disaster relief intervention: arrival in Indonesia
Our intervention team members do an unbelievable job in the course of the humedica disaster relief interventions. Like Sonja Diekmann from Peißenberg, Germ...read more - Video:
Update earthquake emergency aid intervention in Indonesia: our team is on its way
In the evening of the 6th of August already our humedica intervention team set off for Indonesia. The travel of our helpers started from Düsseldorf, Hambur...read more - Breaking News:
humedica sends out medical team to the Indonesian island Lombok
Emergency relief intervention after earthquakes measuring 7,0 on the Richter scale2018/08/06humedica e.V. sends a six-person intervention team to the Indonesian island Lombok, which was hit by massive earthquakes measuring 7,0 on the Richter scale....read more - Press Releases:
Hockey for Hope supports children´s day care centre Campo do Coelho in Brazil
Hockey for Hope chairman Alexander Uhrle hands over in-kind donations at Nova Friburgo in personBy organizing the charity inline tournament in the „Erdgas Schwaben Arena“ at Kaufbeuren, Germany, for the second time the club Hockey for Hope supporte...read more - Video:
Emergency Medical Team – what does that mean in practical terms?
humedica now is the latest member of the EMT family and was certified as Emergency Medical Team 1 fixed.What that means in practical terms for humedica, e...read more - Video:
Original sound of the EMT certification
WHO mentor Dr. Ian Norton and humedica general manager Wolfgang Groß talk about the certification as Emergency Medical TeamThree years humedica prepared for the successful certification as „Emergency Medical Team 1 fixed“. Three years, which challenged the international reli...read more - Breaking News:
humedica: the third German organization certified by the WHO
Successfully completed examination after three-year trainingThese days humedica can announce a remarkable achievement: We are the third German relief organization to pass successfully the examination by the World Hea...read more - Project Stories:
Visiting Sister Gratias
Help for the people in Albania„Do you like Albania?“ asks Nrek while driving me in his car through the evening rush hour of Tirana. Since three days I am in Albania to visit the part...read more - Headlines:
humedica headlines June 2018
+++ Hockey for Hope charity tournament for the benefit of humedica +++ humedica: third German organization certified as Emergency Medical Team +++ Visit by ...read more - Project Stories:
Prison relief intervention in Benin
Report by humedica practitioner Tobias Schadeck„Lassa fever outbreak in Berlin“ my wife read aloud from our Sunday journal at breakfast. „That´s far away from the Bavarian Forest, and, on top, I a...read more - Event:
The humedica Sponsors´ Day 2018
Without the great support of our donors and sponsors we would not be able to implement our worldwide relief projects the way we do at the moment. We cannot ...read more - Video:
How humedica helps refugees in the Lebanon
The situation must be desperate if you decide to escape overnight and leave behind everything you own for an uncertain future. And yet in these times many p...read more - Video:
Pyrenees Mountain Bike Challenge
Humedica employee Heinke Rauscher cycles for the good causeThe Emergency Medical Team (EMT) certification by the World Health Organization WHO is a milestone for our organization. It enforces our core competency, th...read more - Event:
That was b2ORG with TV journalist Christof Lang
For the first meeting of the event series „b2ORG - small circle talks with added value“ in 2018 the internationally operating relief organization humedi...read more - Project Stories:
The children in Kazanchis have to move house!
Your help allows us to provide them also in the future with a secure place to play and learnToday we visit the humedica child day care centre. Together with „Bild hilft e.V. – Ein Herz für Kinder“ we have opened the small kindergarten after ...read more - Headlines:
humedica headlines May 2018
+++ V-Hardware Store in-kind donation worth 2.732,84 Euro +++ Set-up training for EMT camp +++ Licence donation of the EDV-Buchversand Delf Michel e.K. +++read more - Video:
Intervention training at humedica India
14 participants pass the humedica intervention training in IndiaFor the second time now humedica India organizes a training for potential intervention team members in the Southern federal state of Karnataka. In the cours...read more - Blog:
Project visit at humedica Lanka
Our colleague Heinke Rauscher is visiting humedica Lanka. Next to our Sri Lankan colleagues she also gets to know the different projects on the island. What...read more - Background:
Midwifes at work for humedica
2018/05/05In order to allow children a good, healthy start in life and to offer mothers advice and support around the clock, midwives work day for day – also in man...read more - Article:
humedica headlines April 2018
2018/04/30+++ Donating knowledge: rhetoric seminar with Dr. Peter Heigl +++ 5.000 Euro anniversary donation instead of presents +++ Doubled donation of HypoVereinsban...read more - Video:
For mothers and their children in Niger
How the humedica hospital in Kollo worksIn the second poorest state of the world, humedica runs together with its partner Hosanna Institut du Sahel a clinic, which focusses on the health of mothe...read more - Background:
World Malaria Day 2018
The mosquito - the most dangerous animal in the world? In fact it is: each year more people die from its bite than of the bites of sharks or venomous snakes...read more - Breaking News:
Somalia: Help for the horn of hunger
Containers of SOS-Children´s Village and humedica arrive at MogadishuDue to a devastating drought the situation of the Somalian people is extremely serious. For the second time since January containers with urgently needed su...read more - Project Stories:
Haiti: Help in the Hospital of Hope
A review by Dr. Michael ScholtenThe 12th of January 2010 Haiti was hit by the strongest earthquake in its history. Only several hours later was the first humedica intervention team on its ...read more - Headlines:
humedica headlines March 2018
+++ Airbus Foundation donates 1.950 Euro +++ Support from the Kiwanis Club Oberallgäu +++ CSU Ortsverband Obermeitingen collects 230 Euro for humedica +++ ...read more - Get involved:
Bottle deposit projects: urgent need for volunteers
Since April 2016 a special donation campaign for the benefit of humedica is running at the Memmingen Airport: air passengers can throw their deposit bottles...read more - Event:
That was the humedica Team Day 2018
That was the humedica Team Day 2018A lot was going on the 17th of March in the Allgäu! This year´s Team Day lured many of our humanitarian workers to Kaufbeuren, Germany. Under the motto ...read more - Video:
Three questions to Dr. Ian Norton, EMT mentor at WHO
Three questions to Dr. Ian Norton, EMT mentor at WHOAt the moment humedica is being certified for EMT1. On this occasion Dr. Ian Norton visited our headquarters Kaufbeuren, Germany. In the following interview...read more - Headlines:
humedica headlines February 2018
+++ Alois Berger Präzisionsdrehteile GmbH & Co.KG company donates 4.000 EUR +++ 3rd empties donation campaign of V-Markt Neugablonz +++ Dance gala "Belly B...read more - Blog:
African Adventure – project visit in Niger.
humedica employee Sebastian Zausch blogs about his first African assignment. It leads him to West Africa, Niger.read more - Project Stories:
humedica helps in the Philippines
After severe storms that reached their peak with typhoon Kai Tak at the end of 2017, humedica together with its partner organization PHILRADS provides assis...read more - Headlines:
Humedica headlines January 2018
+++ ESV Kaufbeuren Christmas match – jerseys for the benefit of humedica +++ Airport Memmingen and V-Markt support humedica +++ Student nurses collect fun...read more - Article:
Obituary on Dr. Walter Roepert
Deeply moved we have to say goodbye to our committed intervention team member, our true supporter and long-time friend Dr. Walter Roepert from Aalen, German...read more - Video:
„By the grace of God humedica came to us“
How a partner sees humedica2018/01/03"humedica sees the people, for them you are not just another number.", says Gladys Thomas after our interview. She knows what she is talking about as she an...read more