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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

5 Fakten über die drei Krisen in Kamerun

Portrait of a displaced woman at one of the unformal sites hosting displaced families in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria.

Die vergessenen Krisen 2019

Three internally displaced men sitting in front of make shift shelters in the grounds of Glory Primary School in Kalemie town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: NRC/Christian Jepsen

Vergessene Konflikte

10 Gründe, warum wir Krisen nicht ignorieren dürfen

We use an illustration photo in order to protect “David’s” identity. The photo is from Brasil and was taken in August 2019. The man in the photo worked on a coffee farm in conditions analogous to slavery. Photo: Adriano Machado/Reuters/NTB Scanpix

Sklaverei hautnah

NRC education team takes precautionary measures against COVID-19 into consideration during distribution of High Energy Biscuits to displaced families in Lahj governorate.

The education team used to distribute these biscuits to children in schools as replacement for the food children would have been receiving in schools but nowadays the schools are closed so our team is distributing it to displaced families.

Photo: Abdulfatah Al Jaboly/NRC

Der Kampf gegen Covid-19 im Jemen

In September 2019, Mariam Farah Hussein, her husband and seven children fled Mogadishu for Bosaso, on Somalia's northern coastline. The family left their home during shelling on their neighbourhood that subsequently hit and destroyed their home completely.

“I lived in constant fear. There were a lot of explosions every day. People were killed every day, murdered – anything could happen. Because of this fear we decided to flee.”

“We have seen a lot of problems. When I left my home, it was hit by bombs. I suffered when I was travelling. After I arrived here, I forgot all my problems and fears. I feel safe.”

Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC

Sie floh aus einer der gefährlichsten Städte der Welt

The humanitarian situation in the South West State of Somalia is deteriorating, with thousands of displaced people arriving in Baidoa and other towns every month. They flee from rural areas due to conflict and drought which has destroyed harvests for three consecutive seasons. The ongoing threat of armed conflict is limiting the capacity of humanitarian organisations to deliver assistance outside of urban areas, forcing people who are severely affected to relocate to areas wherever support is available.

Stimmen somalischer Vertriebener

Seife rettet Leben

Rafsanjan Settlement is situated about 15 kilometres outside of Kerman city in southern Iran. It hosts 5,500 Afghan refugees, making it the largest refugee settlement in the country. Picture: Hamid Sadeghi/NRC

Iran: Träume auf Eis gelegt

Faduma Abdinor Mohamed, 39, was pregnant with her youngest child when both her father and husband were killed during armed attacks.

The compounding impact of drought left Faduma unable to feed and water her livestock, leaving her struggling to feed her children. When one of her sons became seriously ill, she sold her four surviving goats to pay for his medicine. She does not own any land but earned some money by working on other people’s farms. When the drought deteriorated, it was not possible to find any more work.

Eventually, the combined pressure of conflict and drought forced Faduma to move to Baidoa, an urban centre with greater access to humanitarian assistance.

“Children adapt to the place where they grow up and spend time. I want my children to learn, to help their parents and build a future … and get an education that can give them opportunities everywhere. That is why I brought them here.”

With help from her brother, who lives in Mogadishu, Faduma is able to send her four oldest children to school, but she continues to struggling to provide enough for them enough to eat.

“Last night we got something to eat from others. My children didn’t eat anything this morning. I had nothing to cook.”

Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC

„Ich floh, um meine Kinder zu retten“