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by Nora Parasie, 2016/08/23 Instead of relaxing and taking a rest from her teaching profession during her summer vacation, the Hamburg teacher Nora Parasie took off to what seemed like a different...

by BWO, 2016/08/19 Since August 2015 many thousands of refugees come to the vacation island of Lesbos in Greece. Hence the isle attracted international media attention, but still struggles to cope...

One more step towards the return to a self-determined life: seed, water filters and cattle are both nutritional basis and earning opportunity in the rural areas of Nepal. In April 2015 the people in...

Mudslides, endless raining and innumerable destroyed houses: this May Sri Lanka had once more to face heavy floods, which caused acute emergency for hundreds of thousands of people. While some of the...

The heaviest rainfalls since the quarter of a century have stricken Sri Lanka. Their consequences are severe landslides and widespread flooding, which already caused the deaths of hundreds of people...

SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IN ECUADOR There has been a heavy earthquake Saturday night in Ecuador, one of the poorest countries of Latin America. According to official sources the tremors reached 7.8 on the...

SITUATION IN IDOMENI DETERIORATED FURTHER LAST WEEKEND by Steffen Richter, 2016/04/11 Start of the outbound return to Turkey, immensely challenging conditions, lack of prospects: unfortunately the...

Deteriorating situation for more than 10.000 people by Steffen Richter, 2016/03/31 In the light of the ever worsening situation in Idomeni humedica decided to extend its medical support. This...

by LKO, 2016/02/27 In our article series on El Niño we already dealt with the question what this climate phenomenon exactly is. We also had the opportunity to talk to the climate expert Mojib Latif...

by Sebastian Schilling/LKO, 2016/02/09 Sebastian Schilling acts as coordinator for humedica in Nepal and organises on site the planning and implementation of the relief measures after the severe...