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Mercy Hands Europe is a non-profit organisation that works to safeguard dignity, sustain human rights and build sustainable futures for people, particularly those who are the most vulnerable.
We implement development projects in disaster affected areas and impoverished communities.
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Bringing new #hopes, a young man #success #story from our #MHPSS #project in #Iraq, in partnership with @mercy_hands, @undpiraq and funded by the Embassy of Japan in Iraq 🇯🇵
The war has ended and the dark clouds that hung over Nineveh Governorate have moved on and what remains is destruction and devastation.
Our team had the #opportunity to meet a young man (H.M) to hear his story. Living in the Mahlabbiya district, he is married and grew up in a poor family who make their living by raising cattle and planting a few vegetables in their very modest orchard. He lives in a dilapidated house because of the wars that have taken place.
After the war and the suffering it brought, this young man suffered the shock of losing his only source of #livelihood. Symptoms of shock began to appear and he found himself in depression and complete isolation due to the pressures of life and the losses he suffered, which the war had taken from him. This young man came to our teams when he heard that there is an organisation called Mercy Hands that provides MHPSS counselling sessions, he came to our #center to receive counselling and find a way out of the shock that had weighed down his life and kept him away from his family and relatives.
The young man received and continues to receive #psychological #support sessions. These sessions have enabled him to begin to recover significantly, he now speaks with total comfort and in a positive manner, and he is also returning to speak with his family, sharing activities as he did in the past. He has also been referred to the HRF organisation to #support him with a livelihood project to provide a life for his family and begin to establish a new life away from all the psychological pressures and weight of his past. He now enjoys life more and is #optimistic and thriving in his new job.
As part of our #project "For #sustainable #beekeeping in Al-bab, #empowering beekeepers, and #protecting #biodiversity", our team delivered the first #training cycle to the first group of participants in Al-Bab, #Syria. This training aims to strengthen the knowledge of beekeepers and improve practices.
Combining #theory and #practice was essential in developing the training #programme, as this allows for effective #learning and diversification of #teaching methods. Our partner for this project, @iaco_sy, has design a complete beekeeping training 💪🏻
Today was the closing ceremony of the #Humanitarian #Networks and #Partnership Weeks (#HNPW)!
Five great speakers gave their concluding remarks to this wonderful three week long endeavour, touching upon the need to pay close attention to developing #effective partnerships and #connections between various actors to deliver programs and projects in the most #sustainable and #effective ways.
We were able to meet and develop new connections, while placing ourselves as a useful #node in the large #network of humanitarian partners.
We express our #gratitude for the great organisation and content of the events contained under HNPW!
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We continue expanding our #work in #Ukraine!
On May 31st, 2022, at 10:00am #Geneva time, we are holding a #conference on the #humanitarian #response in Ukraine, its #obstacles, and its #gaps. Our main goal with this event is to bring together local, regional, and #international #partners to identify the #problems and come up with #solutions in which we can optimise the provision of humanitarian #relief and #support to the populations at risk and affected by the #conflict.
Our agenda involves the overview of tools and strategies we can utilise, a discussion on humanitarian #mechanisms, and much more.
Stay tuned for the conference #agenda and #registration information!
#MHEurope remains committed to helping those fleeing #conflict and temporarily living in settlements, communicating their #needs and #conditions to offer #humanitarian #aid and draw #attention to the ongoing issue.
Mercy Hands Europe is launching their activities through the Alliance for Ukraine, composed of @mercy.hands.europe, Mercy Hands America, and @graceinitiativeglobal.
Follow our crowdfunding campaign here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/alliance-for-ukraine?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=chat&utm_source=whatsApp
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We have successfully concluded our first objective in #Erbil for the project “Strengthening civil society and the rule of law in Iraq as a tool of peacebuilding”. The first outcome was the training for Iraqi Civil Society Organizations, where we conducted a two-week, four-day long training to strengthen their work in the field of #humanrights #protection and promotion.
In the pictures, you can see our training team concluding this series of events by involving the participants in a hands-on, practical component where they got the chance to draft #reports which meet the international standards of reporting for human rights #abuses and #violations. The engagement of #CSO representatives was high - everyone was keen to #participate, ask questions, and apply their knowledge learnt over the course of the four days in practice.
We have handed these skills to the CSOs and we expect, from their drive and #passion obtained in the training, that they will be able to apply them in their daily work, extending #quality #help and #assistance to those most #vulnerable.
Next stop for us and the CSO representatives: a #Baghdad-based roundtable #conference!
This project is implemented partnering with @geneva4justice Geneva International Centre for Justice (#GICJ) and @mercy_hands Mercy Hands for Humanitarian Aid (#MH), supported with @auswaertigesamt German Federal Foreign Office's with funds by @ifa.de (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) #zivik Funding programme.
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Meet the participants of our #beekeeping #project 🐝
Once again, as part of our #project "For #sustainable #beekeeping in Al-bab, #empowering beekeepers, and #protecting #biodiversity", our #field team went to meet the beneficiaries in the Qabassin directorate in Syria.
We are #proud to announce that thanks to the efforts of our teams, all beneficiaries were selected. We look forward to continuing to #work with and for them for sustainable beekeeping in the Al-Bab district of Syria.
This project is in #partnership with @iaco_sy. We also thank the EA Foundation for their #support in making this possible 💪🏻
The #voice of #women #leaders is the key to women's #empowerment 💪🏻
On Sunday, As part of our #MHPSS #project in Iraq, a woman leader delivered a session on social cohesion, giving key steps on how we can achieve social cohesion in the region and #building a long lasting #peace between communities. A part of this group session was also dedicated to gender-based violence.
This fruitful discussion took place at the youth center in Qa'im and attended by 8 women. This conversation sparked new #ideas among the participants and offered them a safe space for expression. Our #team is working towards the empowerment of community leaders for peer #support, working on community #cohesion, empowering communities and working in rebuilding the #society with the society members!
This project is in #partnership with @undpiraq and @mercy_hands, and is funded by the Embassy of Japan in Iraq 🇯🇵
Today, marked the final day of the face-to-face #Humanitarian #Networks and #Partnership Week (#HNPW) in #Geneva, #Switzerland.
We would like to thank the the Swiss Agency for #Development and #Cooperation (#SDC) and the #United #Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (#OCHA) for the great organization!
As usual, this week gave Mercy Hands Europe the opportunity to connect with new #actors and discover new useful #tools to improve the quality of our work.
We look forward to implementing the new partnerships, skills, and discoveries!
#NGO #MHEurope
In the #framework of our #mental health and #psychosocial #support, our teams organised a psychosocial support session (PSS ) for a group of #young people 🙆🏻♂️. The topic of the session was how to deal with psychological #stress. Bringing this skill to young people will enable them in the #future to be more #resilient and better able to cope with the #challenges ahead.
Our team also visited the health department in Al-Qaim and provided the official permission to #work received by the Anbar health department. The #cooperation with this department is part of our approach towards effective cooperation with #local actors.
This project is in #partnership @undpiraq @mercy_hands and is funded by the Embassy of Japan in Iraq 🇯🇵
#protection #community #youth support #health #mental health awareness #psychosocial support services #iraq🇮🇶 #japon🇯🇵
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