1.Introduction The earthquake of April 16, 2016, with 7.8 on the Richter scale, affected primarily the Ecuadorian provinces of Es-meraldas, Manabi, Guayas, Los Rios, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas,...
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Working on the Frontline of the HIV Response
On World Aids Day, we pay tribute to the people who are working on the frontline of the HIV response. People like Dr Pascal Milenge. He and his teams are providing antiretroviral drugs to health...
Declaration conjointe: Un mois d’operations militaires pour reprendre Mosul
(Bagdad, 17 novembre 2016): Cela fait un mois aujourd’hui qu’ont débuté les opérations militaires pour reprendre la ville de Mosul. La communauté humanitaire fait face à des besoins de grande ampleur...
War-affected Bentiu State Hospital reopens
For almost a year Bentiu State Hospital in South Sudan had to close its doors due to the war. In fact, there hardly weren’t any doors left. With funds from the Health Pooled Fund Cordaid managed to...
Joint statement on one month of military operations to retake Mosul [EN/AR/KU]
(Baghdad, 17 November 2016): Today marks one month of intensified military operations to retake the city of Mosul. With tens of thousands of families in newly retaken areas urgently requiring...
Displaced families in Nepal: Waiting to go home
In Nepal Cordaid is supporting some 500 displaced families in 4 camps. They lost their houses and income after the April and May 2015 earthquakes. We provide drinking water, business skills trainings...
Afghanistan + 1 more
The European Parliament must immediately address the Joint Way Forward Agreement between the EU and Afghanistan
To the Members of the European Parliament, The Afghanistan donor conference that took place on October 4 and 5 2016 brought together representatives from 75 countries and 26 international...
World + 5 more
Reject dangerous migration response plan, more than 100 NGOs tell EU leaders
Joint NGO statement ahead of the European Council of 28-29 June 2016 NGOs strongly condemn new EU policies to contain migration At the upcoming European Council, European Union (EU) leaders will...
10 communities in Guatemala receive food aid as drought worsens
Communities in the ‘dry corridor’ of Central America are suffering from two years of drought. Harvests have withered and people are cutting meals to survive. Cordaid People in Need provides 10...
Nepal + 1 more
Nepal 1 year after the earthquake
The Dutch have generously donated to the victims of the earthquake in Nepal, now one year ago. What has Cordaid, as a member of the cooperating aid organizations in The Netherlands (SHO), achieved...
Collapsed houses and cracked buildings
by Inge Leuverink It’s 7.30 in the morning. We are driving through Kathmandu, to the training center where I will give a training for Nepalese organizations. Looking out of the window, I see many...
Digital Inclusion of Flood Affected Communities
River floods affect the vulnerable communities living on the riverine islands in North West Bangladesh. The professional and the responding community implement preparedness and response activities to...
Floating City App for Bangladesh
A container currently floating on the pond next to the Dutch government buildings is going to offer public services to slums in Bangladesh. This ‘Floating City App’ is made from recycled plastic...
Strong need for Dutch aid in Eastern Ukraine
It almost seemed as if the crisis in Ukraine had disappeared from the news, if it weren't for a Dutch referendum on The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. However, the humanitarian disaster in the...
Greece + 5 more
Aid for stranded refugees - Idomeni
Thousands of refugees are stranded at the Greek-Macedonian border town Idomeni. Our Caritas colleague Rino Pistone called the situation on the ground "a humanitarian disaster." As more and more...
A mishmash of roads leading to Istanbul
4 mar 2016 by Sietse Blom Global humanitarian needs are reaching critical levels. The first-ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), to be held in Istanbul the 23rd-24th of May 2016, will provide a...
Perspective for Nepali earthquake victims
In April and May 2015, Nepal was hit by severe earthquakes. Thousands of people were killed and millions of others lost their house and their income. Almost a year after, many villages are still in...
Getting the bottles to the people
Braima Dama James is an entrepreneur in Sierra Leone. His business, Salone Foods, sells bottled water and food to the people of Freetown. Though the economy crashed during the Ebola epidemic, he sees...
Congo: On land and women
15 feb 2016 by Sebastiaan van der Hoek | That volcanic soil offers an excellent nurturing ground for beans, cassava and onions, I learned from my education at Wageningen University. Intrigued, I look...
Ending Ebola: 6 times success in 6 months
The West-African Ebola outbreak of 2014 and 2015 is almost over. Fortunately, people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea are able to look towards a new future. With investments in healthcare, sexual...