Pakistan
Alle Berichte über Hilfseinsätze von humedica in Pakistan
- People are suffering from the extreme conditions
Famines caused by droughts and shortly after that heavy rainfalls that lead to floods. Extreme conditions, which result in sorrow and misery among those affected, and could hardly be any more contradictory. Is it not in times of drought that you yearn most ... - Foundations for new houses - and a new future
When asking members of a humedica doctor team during or after their mission about what touched them most apart from the medical aid they offered, the answers often refer to the people's immense gratitude that causes all the exhaustive work to seem ... - Against undernutrition and for education
Last September I spent almost one week in Sukkur, in the south of Pakistan. Never before have I encountered the kind of living conditions, health situation and disease patterns I came face to face with there; and it was all the worse, since poverty and ... - Disaster with a happy and – New house for family of 10 persons
Homeless, unemployed, without a basis of existence for himself and his nine family members; completely destitute – the fate of Inayat Ullah and his family can be described with a few tragic words. The misery of the 41-year old driver and farmer began in a ... - Interview with Heidi Nicklin
The past six months, coordinator Heidi Nicklin worked for humedica in the south of Pakistan, where together with our local partner she set up a project for supporting undernourished children. Before Heidi returned to her home in Scotland, she had a stopover ... - Fighting undernutrition with special food and education
Permanent hunger, under- and malnutrition can cause a number of grave deficiency symptoms. At first, the body will try to compensate for the lack by slowing down bodily and mental productivity and performance. However, a lack of concentration is a relatively ... - Life-saving surgery for Mehnaz thanks to humedica individual case aid
The relief efforts of humedica are always aimed at helping as many people in misery as possible. But beyond that, our project team members also direct their attention to individual persons who are in need of special support. - Houses for the poorest of the poor
Almost seven months have passed, since Pakistan was devastated by the flood of the century which caused 18 million people to flee from their homes and become refugees. Although the country is no longer focus of the world public, humedica can continue its ... - Laying the foundations for a future
Long since, the headlines and reports about the flood of the century in Pakistan have disappeared from the media. Like was the case with Haiti, public attention has soon turned to other issues. Be it the latest publications of Wikileaks or the onset of winter ... - "Kamran is the smallest baby I have ever seen“
Heidi Nicklin has been working as a coordinator for humedica in the south of Pakistan since the beginning of November. Her main responsibility is to initiate the humedica programme for treating and providing for undernourished children. Even being an ... - Pakistan: Interview with Simon Gelzenleuchter - "It has been exhausting work, but I would do it again anytime"
Shortly before he returned to Germany, we had the possibility of holding an interview with Simon Gelzenleuchter. 35 year-old Simon Gelzenleuchter has taken part in the humedica flood relief project in Pakistan, where he has been working as a coordinator for a ... - Flood relief in Pakistan: so far, 700 families have benefited from relief good distributions
Besides taking medical care of the flood victims in Pakistan, one of the major tasks of humedica in the country is distributing relief goods in the flood regions. A few weeks ago, such a distribution took place in the north of Pakistan in cooperation with the ... - humedica individual case aid: three surgeries for a painless future
Although the committed work of humedica in the field of humanitarian aid in the first place aims at helping as many people in misery as possible, we have been supporting particularly tragic cases in the framework of our individual case aid for years. - Looking back ahead – disaster relief evolves into long-term project work
The emergency call reached me in October 2005 while I was in the United States: The north of Pakistan had been hit by a devastating earthquake of a magnitude of 7,6 on the Richter scale. 15 hours after receiving the message on my mobile I was on a plane ... - Snake Bites and Effective Help
Nils Stilke has returned from being in Pakistan for two months. In his bags the trained nurse carries not only his journal containing amusing entries from his daily experiences - which he shares with us, but also unforgettable experiences ranging between ... - Flood Disaster Southern Asia: Medical Team Arrives in Relief Area
After a troublesome journey, the three-person medical team has finally reached its operation area and has already conducted their first examinations. The needs of the people there are great and the weather forecast doesn’t look like it will be getting any ...
