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75 Jahre NRC Flüchtlingshilfe

Die heimlichen Helden

75 Jahre Hilfe für Menschen auf der Flucht

Endlich kann Brigitte wieder lachen

Sechs Jahre Zerstörung

10 Jahre Krieg in Syrien

Mutter werden im Kriegsgebiet

Arwads Leben als Geflüchtete während der Pandemie

Acht Dinge, mit denen wir uns für die Rechte der Frauen einsetzen

Lebanese and Syrian children, who were affected by the Beirut explosion, are participating in the Psychosocial support sessions implemented by the Norwegian Refugee Council to help them deal with their traumas.

Photo: Zaynab Mayladan/NRC

Hilfe für die Kinder von Beirut

Schnelle Hilfe für den Sudan

A child drinking water in Kharef camp, Yemen, thanks to a new solar-powered pump linked to a borehole.

Wenn das Wasser versiegt

Als der Pandemie-Alarm losging

Amina, 7, kann endlich wieder lächeln

Mahmoud’s family received help from the Norwegian Refugee Council to complete repairs to their home after it was damaged by the explosion at Beirut port on August 4th.

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Photo: Sam Tarling/NRC

Ein Zuhause – fern der Heimat

Gesucht: Ein sicheres Zuhause

Unser Weihnachtsgeschenke-Ratgeber

Unser Weihnachtsgeschenke-Ratgeber

Ein Zuhause – fern der Heimat

Amina lebt seit vier Jahren unter einer Plastikplane

Ein Zuhause – fern der Heimat

7 Gründe, warum ein Zuhause so wichtig ist

Fatima Bashir, 9, sits with her mother Sarah Mohammad Omara Shehadeh, 42, in her family’s apartment in Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon, on October 23, 2020.

„Zuhause“ ist dort, wo Hoffnung ist

NORCAP experts have helped set up the new camp on Moria, after fires destroyed the previous camp. We also have a site planner on the island, supporting coordination and setting up water tanks and sewage facilities. (Photo: NORCAP/Alkisti Mavraki) September 2020

Vor Ort in Moria

Movses was at his house when the explosion happened, he ran to the balcony immediately when he heard the sound, the blast threw him, his wife and his 10-year-old daughter away. "When we regained consciousness, I didn't believe my eyes, everything was destroyed, it was like an atomic bomb", Movses explains, "I couldn't find a place to stay at with my family, so we are sleeping in our damaged house, what else can we do?" Volunteers helped Movses cleaning his apartment and giving assessment, "this is not enough, many people came and promised us help, but honestly, I don't see a point in that, this is hopeless. I want to leave this country, there's no hope for us to stay anymore. Do you want more than that?" Movses was injured on his head and all over his body. "My injuries weren't as painful as seeing my daughter covered in blood, I wasn't able to protect my own daughter." He concluded.

Photo: Zaynab Mayladan/NRC

Beirut: Die Explosion, die ihr Leben erschütterte

Photo: Racha El Daoi/NRC

Beirut: Hunderttausende auf einen Schlag obdachlos

Farhiyo Iishaar Omar fears her daughter was attacked by lions.
Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC

Sie fürchtet, dass ihre Tochter von Löwen gefressen wurde

Wiederaufbau eines Krankenhauses in nur vier Wochen

Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC

Wir halfen 2019 über 9 Millionen Menschen auf der Flucht

Workers are restructuring the school building under NRC supervision- Harasta, Eastern Ghouta

Photo: Tareq Mnadili/NRC

Kriegstrauma: Zerstörte Schulen

Globaler Überblick

Tödliche Auswirkungen: die Pandemie in Konfliktgebieten

Vergessene Krisen

Drei Gründe zur Hoffnung

On the 10 April, the same day the first Covid-19 case in Yemen was confirmed, Muhsen Ahmed Mahyoub was fleeing his home.

Muhsen’s home village of Hareeb was a small and a peaceful one, not far from Sana’a city. On the farm he had inherited from his father, Muhsen kept goats and sheep, and planted corn, barley and wheat. He held on to this quiet life through five years of escalating violence. Even when a landmine took both his legs in 2016, Muhsen still steadfastly continued farming, thanks to the help of his children. The farm was his life, and his only source of income. How would his family eat, if they left?

But on 10 April, one day after a unilateral ceasefire was announced, the war finally forced him to flee.

First came the gunfire in the distance. When it grew closer, Muhsen called his wife and children together, and quickly rounded up the goats and sheep. Around him, other families were doing the same.

Muhsen hired a small pickup, loading his animals in the back, and struck out for the desert near Marib city. Here, a barren stretch of sandy land has in the last four months become home to 500 families from around Marib and Nihm.

It is known as Al-Swaidah camp, though there is nothing to mark it as such: no running water, no toilets, no electricity. It is just there.

Muhsen’s family assembled a tent for themselves from iron pipes and plastic sheets. But despite these conditions, Muhsen is just glad to be safe. “We felt we were the luckiest in the world when we arrived.”

Some families still have their goats and sheep with them. Muhsen has sold his animals to buy food and other basic items. “In my village, I used to eat from my farm and sell the rest. But here we are dependent on organizations to help,” he says. “It is true that we can get some food from WFP, but it isn’t enough.”

Muhsen is thankful to those organizations which have started to provide mattresses, water and food. But there is so much they still need, including latrines and proper shelter. Storms and floods have damaged several tents in the last few months.

“Before the war, I used to wake up before dawn and walk to the fields and work until ten. Then I would walk to the market to buy some things, and return to have my lunch with family. We sat together in the afternoon to chew Qat and talk—usually about farming. Nowadays, we are thinking all the time how to get food, how to get water and how long we can stay here.”

Muhsen has heard about Covid-19 but doesn’t consider it a threat for displaced people, as they have other, more pressing, worries. None of the displaced people in the camp have been taking any measures against Covid-19.

He has not heard of the ceasefire declaration. He has seen the families still arriving from surrounding areas, fleeing the ongoing fighting. And so far, the news from his hometown is that it has not stopped. “The battles are still ongoing, so we can’t return.”

Photo: Hassan Al-Homaidi/NRC

Flucht während des „Corona-Waffenstillstands“

Globaler Überblick

79,5 Millionen Menschen auf der Flucht in Zeiten von Covid-19

Mohamed musste Blätter essen