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28/05/2021
Niger suffers from food shortages and undernourishment in children. The availability of food becomes even scarcer between harvests. There is an emergency level of severe acute malnutrition in children under the age of 5 across the country. EU...
21/05/2021
Every year, millions of people are forced to leave their homes due to conflict, violence, human rights violations, persecution, and natural hazards. In Ecuador, there are more than 480,000 refugees and forcibly displaced people from Colombia and...
07/05/2021
In 2019, 6.6 million people were living in extreme poverty in Zimbabwe – double the number from 2011. With EU humanitarian funding, 'Action against hunger/Action contre la faim' provides cash transfers to 2,600 vulnerable households. This...
30/04/2021
Home means comfort, love, safety, the certainty of what we know and are familiar with. Faced by conflict, danger or disasters, many people are left with no other choice than to leave behind all that they have known as ‘home’ and flee, hoping that...
26/04/2021
Every day, thousands of Haitians cross into the neighbouring Dominican Republic to look for work, visit their families or simply to purchase goods at a cheaper rate. In times of coronavirus, however, the massive and continuous movement of people...
07/04/2021
Cevahir fled the war in Syria and works from dusk till dawn to provide for her three children. Selma is a nurse whose passion is to help people. In Turkey, home to 4 million refugees, the paths of these two strong women crossed. Selma is part of...
04/04/2021
8 years into the armed conflict, eastern Ukraine has become one of the most mine-contaminated areas in the world. Thanks to EU humanitarian funding, Danish Refugee Council (DRC)-Danish Demining Group (DDG) helps civilians learn to identify and...
30/03/2021
The war in Syria has reached 10 year anniversary. It has forced millions to flee for safety and leave their homes and belongings behind. Neighbouring Turkey currently hosts 3.6 million Syrian refugees, over 1.6 million of them children. Thanks to EU...
22/03/2021
For people who had to flee their homes, even getting the necessities for life, such as clean, drinkable water, can be a struggle. Each year, the EU allocates a substantial amount of its humanitarian budget to help provide vulnerable communities...
19/03/2021
When COVID-19 forced the schools to close in Iran, millions of students were left without access to education, especially vulnerable Afghan refugees. 9-year-old Fatemeh and her sister miss their teachers and friends at school, but with the...

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