In the office of the head of the department and the only paediatric microsurgeon in Moldova – Anatolii Vladimirovici – we learned many interesting things about the unique doctors who work in Chisinau Children's Hospital No. 3 and take special care of the war children from Ukraine.
Uniforms were distributed among Afghan kids studying in 12 schools, enrolled by HOPE'87 through its "education voucher scheme" under the AcCESS project, funded by ECHO and ADC.
Take a look at the work of the HOPE'87 Health Post for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, which was generously supported by UNITED TEAMS - the Strategic Alliance of the YOU Foundation through "ZF hilft"!
In the last weeks, a wonderful new humanitarian aid project for Ukrainian refugees has started under the patronage of the National Commission of the Republic of Moldova for UNESCO, financed by the YOU Foundation – Education for Children in Need in cooperation with RTL and Deutsche Postcode Lotterie. A big thank you to the local team in Chisinau, that works free of charge for this project!
Nabi Gul, an Afghan refugee father of 5 children (3 boys and 2 girls) was injured in a bomb blast in Peshawar in 2006. With poor and limited access to treatments Nabi’s health deteriorated to the extent that he is unable to work now. Two of his boys aged 15 and 6 started working to support the family.
HOPE’87 has joined forces with six other Austrian NGOs – CARITAS Austria, the Red Cross, Light for the World, Horizont3000, Jugend Eine Welt and ICEP – to develop a programme covering interventions in Burkina Faso and Senegal. It focuses on strengthening the resilience of vulnerable people in West Africa in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, on April 6th we celebrate the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace! The adoption of this Day signifies the increasing recognition by the UN of the positive influence that sport can have on the advancement of human rights and social and economic development and recognizes the positive role sport plays in communities across the globe.
In October, HOPE’87, in cooperation with the City of Vienna, has started a project in the border region of Burkina Faso and Mali with the overall objective of preventing and controlling COVID-19 in the area.
A message from Tomoko Watanabe, daughter of survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, who works for the NGO ANT-Hiroshima, which is dedicated to building peace in the world by promoting Hiroshima's message of peace and reconciliation:
