2019
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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 i...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 i...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“...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 Memminge...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 on...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