2019
Everything we care about
2019/01/08
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Yemen – a country caught between war and humanitarian disaster
2019/12/17Yemen, the second largest country of the Arabian Peninsula, is torn by war and terrorism. Away from the streets and paths thousands of mines worsen the suff...read more - Article:
Bye bye humedica bus
wie der blaue Bus Leben verändertThe earth trembles. Deep cracks appear in the walls. Rubble falls down. An unbearably loud sound starts to spread. People get injured, buried and trapped un...read more - Video:
Merry Christmas – Christmas greetings from Heinke Rauscher and Johannes Peter
2019/12/232019 was a busy, moving as well challenging year. Once again, we were able to assist many people in various, partly existential crises. Many thanks to all, ...read more - Report:
You are never too young to do good
Pupils from the Pfarrer-Kneipp-Schule raised 8,839.05 Euro by runningWhen 466 pupils run together for the good cause, this is an outstanding project. The Pfarrer-Kneipp-Schule in Bad Wörishofen, Germany, has organized this ve...read more - Article:
Earthquake relief work in Albania
Before the onset of winter people need mainly protection against the coldThere was a four-person family. It found refuge in a car: the parents and their children have been sleeping there for days. It is their new home now since a...read more - Article:
„Involved with heart and soul“
humedica in conversation with our volunteer Uwe RichterUwe Richter is married with a daughter. He is born in Bayreuth, Germany. Retired, the former chemist and his wife now live in Buchloe, approximately 10 kilo...read more - Article:
„Pack it like Bayern“ – Parcel packing like a professional
THE FC BAYERN WOMEN´S SOCCER TEAM ENGAGES FOR “PRESENT FROM THE HEART”The „Present from the heart“ team is always looking forward to one date in particular: when the women players of FC Bayern invite them to come to Munich to ...read more - Breaking News:
Earthquake in Albania – humedica sends out intervention team
Team to start tomorrow from Munichhumedica e.V. sends out a three-person intervention team to Albania, which has been shook by massive quakes. The number of victims after the earthquakes mea...read more - Video:
Rains in Kenya continue
„Help is needed urgently“2019/11/26„It is good that we are here. People need help urgently“, says Natascha Gegg. She works as coordinator for our intervention team, which is currently assisti...read more - Interview:
Half a year after the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka
Interview with country director Dr. Prithiviraj on the occasion of the Day of Tolerance2019/11/15Six months ago Sri Lanka´s breath was taken away. The attacks on three Christian churches on Easter Sunday this year has deeply shaken the country. On the m...read more - Article:
Every girl has unlimited potential
Worldwide countless girls are oppressed every day. But everywhere in the world resistance is growing in order to disrupt old power structures to create, in ...read more - Article:
Humedica headlines November 2019
Humedica headlines November 2019+++Hans Söllner and the tumbler deposit+++The Lions on the green+++GRUMA and the smiling logistician+++A plaster for all cases+++Donation cheque and tea cak...read more - Article:
humedica sends out intervention team to Kenya to provide flood relief assistance
Eastern Africa: Floods and their consequences threaten peopleGreat need after persistent rainfall in the East African countries. humedica sends out medical intervention team. Partners on site currentl...read more - Article:
Pakistan: Quick help after the earthquake
How we could help thanks to your donations2019/10/23Many earthquake areas are located in the poorest countries of the world. Pakistan is one of the countries, where inhabitants get no rest. What little pe...read more - Article:
Kaufbeuren: "Present from the heart" partner town
Colourful family festivity at the Obere Kaiser-Max-StreetThis year the big Christmas parcel campaign „Present from the heart“ of the Bavarian aid organization humedica is specially supported by th...read more - Background:
Wolfgang Groß receives Ring of Honour
Kaufbeuren honours humedica co-founder2019/10/16Wolfgang Groß, co-founder and longstanding general manager of humedica , has been awarded the Ring of Honour of the city Kaufbeuren, German...read more - Background:
Volunteers – Silent heroes committed to helping others
2019/10/21„You, the silent heroes, you make our work possible!“ With these words humedica general manager Heinke Rauscher made very clear how important voluntary help...read more - Background:
World Hunger Day:
Zimbabwe – a race against time2019/10/16No child should die from undernourishment – that is the belief of all people working at humedica. The World Food Day – aka World Hunger Day...read more - Report:
Impressions from a visit to Romania
Three villages – one success story2019/10/08There are no sealed roads. Accommodations do neither have power supply nor running water. It is hard to believe that we are visiting a member state of the E...read more - Press Releases:
Welcome to "Present from the heart" 2019
This year again, the big Christmas parcel campaign „Present from the heart“of the Bavarian aid organization humedica will bring special joy to children in n...read more - Article:
humedica headlines October 2019
humedica headlines October 20192019/10/09+++Hockey for Hope gives 1.500 Euro +++Töpfer donates baby food and care products +++Consumable supplies for hospitals from Hell+Co GmbH+++City run brings 2...read more - Article:
Earthquake in Pakistan – thousands of people need help
On Tuesday, the 24th of September at 04:01 pm an earthquake measuring 5,8 ten kilometers under the ground let tremble the North-Eastern part of Pakistan. Tr...read more - Project Stories:
World Heart Day - A Heart and a heart valve for Regie
A blessing in disguiseThis story is about Regie, a sick boy of the Philippines; Dr. Michael Brinkmann and a humedica intervention in the South-East Asian country after the hurric...read more - Background:
Refugee Day
There is no typical refugee in Lebanon, too„Refugee!“ A word, which has been on everyone´s lips for years now – since in 2015 hundred thousands of people came to Germany seeking protection. David Zor...read more - Article:
Brazil: Soccer star gives children hope
Children´s dreams come trueAll is possible, but children also need support. Children like Lucas: he is 13 years old and lives in Novo Friburgo, a city, where humedica Brazil is situat...read more - Breaking News:
Earthquake in Montyland
Well trained for any emergency: international disaster training at humedicaKaufbeuren, Germany – Intervention team members rehearse for the real case: this training is called TEAMS (Training for Emergency Medical Teams and European...read more - Article:
Running for the good cause
humedica at the Kaufbeuren City RunAt 6:30 pm on Saturday, the 21st of September, the “go ahead” will be given for the VWEW City Run Kaufbeuren. Then it is time again to run for the good caus...read more - Project Stories:
„humedica´s support has changed my life.“
A story from EthiopiaBuzunesh, her husband and her four children live in Bishoftu in the South-East of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Last year she has participated in one o...read more - Project Stories:
Each day is a new challenge, but also a gain
Report from one of our doctors in UgandaFor the third time Dr. Ulrike Knödler has taken part in a humedica intervention in the Mutolere Hospital in the South-West of Uganda.read more - Breaking News:
Floods in India
humedica helps 2,000 familieshumedica helps 2,000 familiesread more - Headlines:
Humedica headlines August 2019
Humedica headlines August 2019+++Endoscopy device for Haitian clinic+++Free medecines for people in need+++Kaufbeuren Health Food Shop Merk donates 2,000 raised in sales campaign+++read more - Breaking News:
Dengue fever epidemic: call for help from Honduras
Children must be protected from mosquitosThese days humedica received a call for help from the embassy in Honduras: a countrywide dengue fever epidemic is raging in Honduras, which spreads constant...read more - Video: Indonesien
Prepared for the next disaster
humedica trains first responders in IndonesiaCERT heißt das Programm, das Menschen weltweit darin schult, wie sie sich im Fall einer Katastrophe am besten verhalten und als erste Rettungskräfte agieren...read more - Article: Bangladesh
Fire in Bangladesh: Thousands of people left homeless
2019/08/21They are left with nothing. Thousands of people have lost their belongings by the fire in the slum area of Chalantika. humedica has promised short-term emer...read more - Breaking News:
19th of August: Day of Humanitarian Aid
Zimbabwe threatened by famine: UNO raises alarm2019/08/19The people in Zimbabwe are in dire need of help, humedica starts emergency relief measures. Since the destructive cyclone „Idai“ the country suffers from a ...read more - Get involved:
Side by side with local physicians
Medical intervention in Chad – professionals urgently needed2019/08/16The republic of Chad is situated in the Sahel zone and one of the poorest countries in the world. humedica is urgently looking for professionals.read more - Breaking News:
humedica nominated for PR Picture Award 2019
Photo „At eye level“ on shortlist of well-known media award2019/08/14A photography of humedica is nominated for the well-known PR Picture Award. An expressive photography of Jasper Ehrich represents humedica in the category „...read more - Project Stories: Haiti
Help for self-aid
Hospital sponsorship in Haiti – training as a way to independence2019/08/12humedica and the Hôpital Espoir have been working well together for quite a long time.read more - Article:
Destruction after earthquake in the Philippines
humedica assists reconstruction2019/08/07Since many years now humedica has been active in the Philippines in cooperation with the reliable local aid organization PHILRADS, which contacted the humed...read more - Project Stories: Togo
Poorly provided in narrow spaces
Hope for prisoners in Togo2019/08/07It is hard to imagine under which conditions inmates have to live, or rather “to vegetate”, in many parts of the world. They are so tightly packed and crowd...read more - Video:
When Western meets traditional medicine
Physician Michael Scholten visits Kara clinic in Ethiopia2019/08/02„Here Western and traditional medicine come together – and learn from one another“, Michael Scholten was happy to report from Kara in Ethopia.read more - Press Releases:
humedica helps monsoon victims in India
2019/07/16The humanitarian organization humedica in Kaufbeuren supports the monsoon victims in Asia with short-term emergency relief aid. Its local partner Emmanuel H...read more - Breaking News:
humedica headlines July 2019
2019/07/15+++Pupils from Siegen donate price money to Pakistani water project+++Uwe Richter gives 2000 Euro and lots of time+++620 Euro raised at the anniversary of D...read more - Press Releases:
Kaufbeuren city run for the benefit of humedica projects
Revenue enables access to clean water for people in PakistanThe first VWEW city run Kaufbeuren on the 21st of September 2019 does not only start a new running series, but also a new charity campaign in the region. Pa...read more - Article:
100th anniversary – donations instead of gifts
„I have found help often enough, and now I want to help myself“. This motivated Josef Kunz, when he asked the guests of his 100th anniversary to donate for ...read more - Headlines:
humedica headlines June 2019
humedica headlines June 2019++++ Contactless donation at Sparkasse Kaufbeuren+++800 pairs of Lowa shoes for people in need+++Regular support by medication importer Eurimpharm Arzneimit...read more - Press Releases:
Hand in hand for people in need
Kaufbeuren head mayor visits humedicahumedica was the seventh station of this years´s „24 hours tour“ of the head mayor of Kaufbeuren, Stefan Bosse. A good opportunity to meet in person the new...read more - Project Stories:
On the run – from war, hunger and educational disadvantages
Donate hope on the World Refugee Day!2019/06/20For many years now humedica engages in crisis prevention, in the fight against the causes of migration and educational work, always trying to give families ...read more - Video:
Nine months after earthquake and tsunami: help for Sulawesi
Joint reconstruction aid of humedica and Karya Alpha Omega Foundation in Indonesia2019/06/17The 28th of September 2018 the lives of Dalmin, Ratu and Kevin changed completely in the wink of an eye: the people on the Indonesian island Sulawesi were h...read more - Get involved:
Join in: the kindergarten in Bishoftu needs our help!
Donate for an even better educational care on the 16th of June, the "Day of the African Children".2019/06/16Thanks to your support and the commitment of the Reiner Meutsch Stiftung FLY & HELP our "Children & Education" project can now also provide a kindergarten f...read more - Report:
Earthquake in the Philippines: help for daily survival
Erdbeben Philippinen: Hilfe zum täglichen ÜberlebenAfter the earthquake in the Philippines humedica provides another 700 families together with its local partner PHILRADS.read more - Headlines:
humedica headlines May 2019
humedica-Schlagzeilen Mai 2019+++Anniversary event a great success thanks to support of many companies +++Event-Systeme Veranstaltungstechnik supports with technical equipment+++Sparkass...read more - Report:
Refugee crisis Syria: help for displaced persons in the Lebanon
A video coverage by Daniel Andrei2019/05/31Since 2011 Syria has been torn apart by civil war. Millions of people had to leave their homes and to look for refuge in their neighboring countries. In the...read more - Press Releases:
Bodensee-Airport Friedrichshafen supports humedica
3.000 Euro profit from the deposit bottle campaign donated2019/05/29Since August 2016 a very special support campaign is underway in the Bodensee-Airport Friedrichshafen for the benefit of the Kaufbeuren humanitarian aid org...read more - Video:
The jubilee on film
A review of the festive humedica weekendIt was a moving goodbye to our co-founder Wolfgang Groß and an incredible festive weekend. Together with international guests from 21 countries, many compan...read more - Press Releases:
humedica celebrates 40 years of international humanitarian aid
For humedica the „40“ was a top priority this weekend. For 40 years Wolfgang Groß has headed the Kaufbeuren aid organization. 40 years of supply aid, emerg...read more - Project Stories:
After earthquake in the Philippines: humedica takes care of 759 families
2019/05/17Immediately after the earthquake measuring 6.1, which had caused much destruction, humedica has helped in the Porac area and cooperated with its project par...read more - Press Releases:
humedica celebrates jubilee and change at the top of management
Celebrating humedica´s 40th anniversaryThe 25th of May 2019 the Kaufbeuren aid organization humedica celebrates its 40th anniversary. At the “Open Day” starting at 12 am, sponsors and other inter...read more - Background:
Zimbabwe is not forgotten
humedica coordinator looks into relief measures after cyclone Idai"I am travelling to Zimbabwe with a sense of gratitude." explains Heinz Horsch before he takes off to the country, which has been devastated by the cyclone ...read more - Article:
humedica headlines April 2019
humedica-Schlagzeilen April 2019++++ 1.000 Euro by partying: Hello Eventteam donates disco event revenue ++++ Right to the point: Wortliga supports humedica text work ++++ Charitable gifts...read more - Article: Sri lanka
Visit to Negombo: humedica team talks to afflicted people
The conditions, in which Dr. Prithiviraj, the country director of humedica Lanka, and his team are working these days are emotionally difficult. The situati...read more - Breaking News:
Land under water: humedica helps after flood disaster in Iran
2019/05/01Rainfall for days on end caused massive floods in Iran. In the province Lorestan in the Western part of the country about 30.000 families have lost all thei...read more - Breaking News:
humedica and PHILRADS help after earthquake in the Philippines
Food distribution in remote villages near Porac2019/04/29Last week an earthquake measuring 6,1 destroyed many houses and whole villages in the Philippines. In the region surrounding the town Porac many remote comm...read more - Background: Sri Lanka
After the attacks in Sri Lanka: help and reconciliation
After the attacks in Sri Lanka: help and reconciliation2019/04/26Several days ago life stand still in Sri Lanka. An attack series on churches and hotels claimed more than 350 human lives. Many people have been injured, so...read more - Video:
Sri Lanka Attacks: Wolfgang Groß reports about first relief measures
Sri Lanka Attacks: Wolfgang Groß reports about first relief measures2019/04/25Only shortly after the attacks in Sri Lanka the humedica Lanka team was able to help the affected people. humedica general manager Wolfgang Groß tells us in...read more - Breaking News:
Sri Lanka Attacks: humedica Lanka provides emergency aid
2019/04/22Nearly every hour new details about the extent of the attacks in Sri Lanka come to be known. Dr. Prithiviraj, director of humedica Lanka, and his team are o...read more - Breaking News:
After attacks in Sri Lanka: humedica helps the affected people
2019/04/21Nearly exactly ten years ago the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka had run out. Calm was restored in the island, which is called „Pearl of the Indian Ocean“. Th...read more - Video:
"Since we are here, significantly less children die"
Health care station helps the traditional Kara tribe in EthiopiaA shovel, a spare tyre and enough to eat and drink. These items are a must for everybody, who sets out to Dus. Dus is a small remote village in the South We...read more - Article:
humedica: Help and reconciliation after genocide in Rwanda
humedica: Hilfe und Versöhnung nach Völkermord in Ruanda25 years ago in summer, humedica has already been able to save many lives by sending over 100 tons of medical materials and food. Approximately three millio...read more - Interview:
Ten years ago: operation in a foggy night
Fast humedica intervention after earthquake in ItalyMonday night before Easter 2009, the earth in the Abruzzo region started to tremble: 300 fatalities, hundreds of thousands of homeless and injured people. H...read more - Article:
Humedica headlines March 2019
Humedica headlines March 2019+++Bottle deposit vouchers bring in 12.000 Euro: Allgäu Airport and V-Markt support humedica +++ Wanted: volunteers for deposit bottle projects in Memmingen...read more - Video:
Cyclone aid South East Africa: The help in Malawi continues!
Cyclone aid South East Africa: The help in Malawi continues!2019/03/28Even so our three humedica intervention team members are back in Germany, the relief work in Malawi continues full steam. Sandra Oefele, head of internation...read more - Video:
Cyclone aid South East Africa: On the road with the humedica team
2019/03/26Together with Emmanuel International Malawi our humedica intervention team members Katharina Mayer, Liesel Ruff and Astrid de Kuijer have penetrated the dep...read more - Breaking News:
Cyclone aid South East Africa: humedica team distributes aid supplies in Malawi
2019/03/25The inhabitants of the remote villages of Malawi have been hit particularly hard by the last natural disaster: their already frugal household goods have oft...read more - Breaking News:
Cyclone aid South East Africa: Help for Malawi
2019/03/21In the last hours and days our humedica team has witnessed the situation in Malawi at first hand. Thousands of people live in provisional accommodations. Th...read more - Video:
Cyclone aid South East Africa: First impressions from Malawi
2019/03/20Our humedica intervention team members Katharina Mayer, Liesel Ruff and Astrid de Kuijer have arrived in the flooded regions of Malawi together with our par...read more - Video:
Cyclone aid South East Africa: Departure to Malawi
2019/03/18On the same evening of the 17th March our humedica intervention team set out to Malawi, where the heavy storms of cyclone Idai had caused massive floods. Th...read more - Breaking News:
Emergency aid after cyclone in South East Africa: humedica sends out medical team to Malawi
2019/03/16humedica has sent out a three-person intervention team to Malawi after the continuing storms and massive rainfalls of the cyclone Idai had caused floods in ...read more - Interview:
"The Philippines have become my second home"
Since her first intervention in 2011 humedica coordinator Christiane Bähr travels every year to the Philippines.2019/03/14At humedica we get to know very special people once and again. Persons of the heart, which make our work possible in the first place. Christiane Bähr is one...read more - Breaking News:
Severe famine in North Korea: humedica asks for your support
2019/03/07The people in North Korea are currently experiencing a severe famine crisis. The North Korean embassy counselor Kim Hak visited in person the humedica headq...read more - Article:
humedica headlines February 2019
+++ Josef Hebel GmbH supports Kara school in Ethiopia +++ Bottle deposit in V-Markt enables help for vulnerable people +++ Generous birthday donation: Forme...read more - Video:
The many facets of our refugee work in Melkadida
Since 2011 drought, hunger and violence have forced hundreds of thousands of Somalians to flee to their neighbor countries Kenia and Ethiopia. Ever since th...read more - Video:
Schools and accommodations for tsunami victims
humedica supports reconstruction work in IndonesiaThe 28th of September 2018 the earth quaked in the area near Palu, a coastal town on the Indonesian island Sulawesi.read more - Headlines:
humedica headlines January 2019
2019/02/05+++ imec-Messtechnik gives 110 thermologers +++ Hildegardis Gymnasium Kempten donates Christmas concert revenue +++ Energiesysteme Epple organizes charity e...read more - Background:
With PHILRADS at work in the Philippines
Longstanding partnership enables immediate and lasting relief work after typhoons "Mangkhut" and "Usman".2019/02/01In order to substitute the governmental relief measures our longstanding Philippine partner organization PHILRADS decided to distribute food packages. humed...read more - Background:
Sri Lanka: flood assistance after cyclone and monsoon
humedica Lanka organises distribution of relief goods and food2019/01/30While we in Germany were celebrating Christmas with our families and friends, more than 8.500 people in the North of Sri Lanka were being evacuated. Due to...read more - Video:
"We are #nichtvergesser" – a well for Pakistan
From children for children: Third graders from Siegen enable a well construction in the Pakistani village Chano Kolhi.2019/01/29When our #nichtvergesser (#those who do not forget) exhibition "The Importance of Water" travelled to the Freie Christliche Grundschule Siegen-Rudersdorf, w...read more - Video:
Tsunami Indonesia: Ida´s story
2019/01/15Without any prior warning the tidal wave caught the people on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra off guard shortly before Christmas Eve and changed ...read more - Video:
Help after the tsunami in Indonesia
humedica intervention team brings medical assistance, food packages and hope to the people in Java.2019/01/09The 22th of December a tsunami caused much damage on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra: from one moment to the next about 12.000 people lost their ...read more - Press Releases:
humedica helps in Sri Lanka and the Philippines
2019/01/08These were eventful holidays and also an exciting turn of the year for the helpers in the red humedica vests. While a three-person team set off on Christmas...read more