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09 Jul 2009

Pakistan
Pakistan crisis: HELP starts new project for 500.000 IDPs - German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and New Apostolic Church Charity provide support

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Since mid-April the Pakistani army is fighting Taliban strongholds in Swat valley and other areas of the Northwest Frontier Province within the framework of the operation „Rah-e-Rast". Since then more than 2,4 Mio Pakistani citizens have become displaced all over the country. Over 200.000 people live in camps and more than 2 Mio Internally Displaced People (IDPs) have found refuge in the private sector with relatives, friends or other host families. These IDPs in the private sector are hardly visible as the media as well as most of the aid agencies concentrate on

03 Apr 2009

Zimbabwe
HELP soliciting donations for Health Projects in Zimbabwe Cholera epidemic not yet under control

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Bonn/Harare: In view of the dramatic health situation and the cholera epidemic raging now for months the German relief organization HELP, on the occasion of World Health Day 2009 on April 7, is soliciting more donations to support their medical aid projects in Zimbabwe. This year's motto of World Health day is: "Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies".

Since August 2008, a cholera epidemic is raging in Zimbabwe, and it is not yet under control. By the end of March 2009, 93,937 cases have been registered, and 4,112 people already died

06 Feb 2009

Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Cholera situation escalates - HELP intensifies aid projects

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Bonn/Harare: Since August 2008 cholera ravages in Zimbabwe and the epidemic escalates more and more. According to figures of the World Health Organization 3.229 people have died, 63.000 cases have been reported. 1.700 cholera cases are added each day. And there is no end of the catastrophe in sight. Therefore, HELP has decided to intensify its aid projects furthermore. With the support of the German Foreign Ministry and the City of Munich HELP will equip 12 polyclinics in the district of Harare, that can treat 40,000 people per month, with hygienic articles

04 Dec 2008

Zimbabwe
Cholera in Zimbabwe: HELP urgently calls for donations

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Epidemic claims more and more victims - Government declares state of emergency

Bonn/Harare: In light of the increasingly dramatic dimensions of the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe the German humanitarian aid organization HELP has urgently called for donations today. According to unofficial sources nearly 1,000 people have died from the disease up to now, more than 10,000 people have been infected. Yesterday the government of Zimbabwe has declared the state of emergency and called the international community for support. Even in the neighboring Republic of South Africa

29 May 2006

Indonesia
Indonesia earthquake: HELP from Germany establishes a mobile clinic in Bantul

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Berthold Engelmann
Bonn/Indonesia - 29.05.2006 To provide medical aid to the unaccounted number of injured people after the devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Java, the German humanitarian aid organization HELP established a mobile clinic in the province of Bantul, located south of Yogyakarta. Bantul is affected most by the aftermath of the earthquake. "The hospitals in Bantul are completely overcrowded. Injured people walk through the streets without anybody being able to help them. Besides taking care of fractures and open wounds we have to prevent

23 Sep 2005

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: a summary of the operations

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Following the elections of September 18 we took the opportunity to summarize the operations in the sectors WatSan and school reconstruction. The report is also giving a preview to the new project "Community based Re-integration of war-affected Children and Young People". The events in Afghanistan are not unimportant for HELP. It was the crisis about the refugees, which lead to the foundation of HELP in 1981 after the invasion of the Soviet forces.

What do we know about Afghanistan?

"The security of Germany will be

01 Jul 2005

Iraq
Iraq: Rehabilitation of compact units and water networks in Diyala and Wassit

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Since November 2004, Eberhard Wissinger coordinates the WatSan programme for the Diyala and Wassit governorates in Eastern Iraq. Based in the neighboring Amman / Jordan for security reasons, he collaborates with Maysoon Al Shukri and Ghaswan Adnan Nouri from the HELP- Baghdad branch as well as their teams of logisticians, engineers and technicians. The programme budget of above 1 million US Dollar is funded by UNICEF and the Swiss Directorate for Development and Cooperation (DEZA). Halfway through with the programme implementation, Eberhard analyses the situation.

24 Feb 2005

Sri Lanka
Seaquake Sri Lanka: Removing the debris - we´re cleaning up!

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Walter Berier and his 212 co-workers are cleaning up. In Kinniya, a district of Trincomalee, they collaborate with the Pradeshiya Sabha (an assembly of local authorities), in order to eliminate the consequences of the dreadful seaquake . Kinniya is one of the most affected regions of north-east Sri Lanka. Because of the positive response of the locals to the work, the authorities assigned HELP to clear another coastline of 7 km length.

All the local people who work for HELP are personally affected by the disaster. By contributing to the HELP-program

06 Jan 2005

Indonesia
Wolfgang Nierwetberg reports from Banda Aceh

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

HELP Managing Director Wolfgang Nierwetberg managed to visit Banda Aceh on 3 January 2005. Here his uncensored report.

A commercial plane takes you from Medan to Banda Aceh within 50 minutes. The airport is under a veritable state of siege: cab-drivers and "flood-guides" offer their services. Good cars are hard to get - most of them are hired round the clock by journalists and tv-teams.

It's a short ride from the airport to downtown - better to say: what is left of it. The closer you get, the the stronger the smell. Almost everybody uses a protective mask covering mouth

03 Jan 2005

Indonesia
HELP starts projects in Sumatra

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Bonn: Wolfgang Nierwetberg, Managing Director of HELP - registerd charity for international cooperation, has arrived in Sumatra yesterday and started implementation of emergency projects in cooperation with local partners. The Indonesian volunteer organisation WALHI was given a grant from our emergency fund to salvage, identify and bury corpses of victims. "That is urgent and top priority" said Nierwetberg, "otherwise we have to face the outbreak of cholera and other epidemics; the continuous rain makes things even worse".

Reporting from Medan, Nierwetberg states

30 Dec 2004

Indonesia + 1 other
HELP provides a further 250.000 Euro for the victims of the seaquake

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Bonn: The German humanitarian organization HELP has today provided a further 250,000 Euro for the victims of the seaquake in Sri Lanka. After blankets and mattresses were provided to 4.000 homeless families in a first distribution between Kalutara und Ambalangoda on the South-Western coast of Sri Lanka, HELP will concentrate its efforts in the delivery of hygiene articles and drinking water in the same region. "People have lost everything and sometimes even do not even own a toothbrush", project coordinator Benjamin Klaus stated via telephone from Colombo.

27 Dec 2004

Sri Lanka
HELP sends emergency specialists to Sri Lanka - 10.000 Euro released for immediate action

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Bonn/Colombo: In an immediate response to the disastrous seaquake in South East Asia the German registered charity "HELP" will send 2 emergency specialists to the hardest hit areas at the eastern coast of Sri Lanka. Our aid-workers carry an amount of 10.000 Euro in order to provide help and organise relief at the spot.

As in all other regions of the area, the situation in Sri Lanka cannot yet be fully assessed. However, according to reliable sources, more than 11.000 people were killed and a million lost their homes in Sri Lanka alone, while vast areas are still cut off

11 Nov 2004

India
The mobile clinic - time for review of a community health project in India

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

After the devastating earthquake in the state of Gujarat of 26 January 2001 immediate response in the health sector was required. The tremors had partly or totally destroyed not only most of the private dwellings in hundreds of villages but also razed virtually the entire medical infrastructure to the ground. Many people had been injured, many of them seriously, and were suffering from trauma. The loss of shelter and belongings even much worsened the health and hygienic situation in the earthquake-affected area.

With the financial help of the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe,

21 Sep 2004

Iraq
International staff of Help is leaving Iraq

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Four international staff of the Germany based relief organisation HELP are leaving Iraq. "Until yesterday we were convinced that we can continue our work with enhanced security measures", said Frank McAreavey, leader of HELP's humanitarian demining team in Iraq. "But the recent incidents, especially the increasing number of kidnappings and executions, indicate an escalation of violence and do no more allow us to assess the impact on our security. Extra bodyguards and electronic monotoring are not enough to bind the risk", emphasizes

08 Sep 2004

Iraq
Iraq: 50 degrees in the shade and no drop of water

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

The problem

Country coordinator Miss Heide Feldmann has returned back home to Germany after a 16-months' stay in Baghdad. Since August 2004 no more threatening, no more constant insecurity, no more stress and no more unbearable heat. She is looking back to an eventful time. In the beginning Heide organised the food and non-food distributions and during her last months, she became an expert in the provision of safe water. We pass the word to Heide to tell about her experiences in water.

Iraq has suffered from twenty years of

08 Sep 2004

Iraq
Iraq: Impressions of the distribution of relief supplies

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Heide Feldmann knows how to proceed in crisis areas. The 32-year old women, born in Chemnitz (Germany), has coordinated the humanitarian aid of HELP in favour of victims of the war in Chechnya. She has also seen the destruction caused by an earthquake in India three years ago. She is working in the former Mesopotamia since the beginning of May 2003. In October 2003 four additional staff arrived in the HELP office in Baghdad. Their objective is to train local staff in humanitarian demining. With the follwing text Heide describes her work in favour of

08 Sep 2004

Iraq
Iraq: Frank Mc Areavey reports from Baghdad

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

German native Frank Mc Areavey is familiar with danger. In his capacity as humanitarian deminer he has worked in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina for HELP. In Iraq he is a member of an international humanitarian demining team. Since October 2003 he is on location in Baghdad. It is not only the job that is dangerous, but also his environment. The news broadcast this almost every day. Please share one working day with Frank and his team mates.

Saturday morning at 8 o'clock in the HELP office in Baghdad. On site the work has to go very correctly and carefully

08 Jun 2004

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Aid Organizations protest against violence

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Aid workers temporarily suspend work in commemoration of murdered colleagues
Berlin/Bonn, 8. Juni 2004. One week after the murder of five aid workers of "Doctors without Borders" the German humanitarian organizations Johanniter and HELP suspend their work in Afghanistan for two days.

At the same time the organizations appeal to the representatives of the Afghani government, provincial leaders and the international community to urgently improve safety of aid workers in the country and help with the continuation of relief and development projects.

04 Jun 2004

Afghanistan
HELP calls for solidarity with murdered colleagues in Afghanistan: Suggests nationwide suspension of all NGO activities on 9/10 June

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

Bonn, 4 June - Following the murder of five colleagues of the organization "Doctors without Bor-ders" on Wednesday, the German humanitarian organization HELP, that has been working in Afghanistan since 1981, has suspended all activities in the concerned region until further notice.
"As an act of solidarity and respect towards the victims, we cannot continue with business as usual. The threat by the Taliban and other militant groups is a problem for the work of humanitarian organizations, not only in Badghis, but nationwide. Therefore we call all

13 Feb 2004

Iraq
Iraq: How to tap water from a pipeline

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.

German native Heide Feldmann knows how to proceed in crisis areas. The 32-year old women, born in Chemnitz, has coordinated the humanitarian aid of HELP in favour of victims of the war in Chechnya. She has also seen the destruction caused by an earthquake in India three years ago. Now she is working in Iraq since May 2003. In October 2003 four additional staff arrived in the HELP office in Baghdad. Their objective is to train local staff in humanitarian demining. With the following text Heide describes her traditional relief work in favour

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