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13/02/24
Attacks in Rafah jeopardise our humanitarian work
The military operation in southern Gaza, where more than 1.3 million people and a dozen of our colleagues are sheltering, puts at risk our distributions of water, food, hygiene kits, shelter or waste collection and cleaning services to prevent the outbreak of diseases. In the last 4 months, Action Against Hunger has been able to provide fresh and dry food baskets, cash assistance and water, hygiene and sanitation projects to some 320,000 people trapped in Rafah, a place where more than half a million people are suffering from a catastrophic food crisis.
Read news12/02/24
Action Against Hunger, together with its local partner, Partnership and Teaching (P&T) has been providing humanitarian assistance to refugees in Syunik province from Nagorno-Karabakh who have been displaced in Armenia since late September 2023. Assistance has been provided through financial support from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) over a period of four months from October 2023 to January 2024 and has includes voucher assistance and the provision of mental health and psychological support services (MHPSS).
Read news08/02/24
State actors and CSOs meet to discuss Humanitarian Coordination in Syunik province
On February 2nd, 2024, Action Against Hunger in cooperation with Partnership and Teaching NGO organized a round table discussion in Goris in Armenia’s Syunik province within the scope of the project “Providing Urgent Humanitarian Assistance to support Displaced Families from Nagorno Karabakh” funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). The round table brought together more than 40 representatives of State and Civil Society Organisations (CSO) who have been actively engaged in supporting the humanitarian response to the displacement of people from Nagorno Karabakh, many thousands of whom are currently residing in Syunik province.
Read news05/02/24
One year after the devastating earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, thousands of families continue to face challenges and live in temporary settlements. "Over the past year our teams have been working hard to support the victims of the catastrophic earthquakes, but recovery is not yet complete. We continue to work on the rehabilitation of sanitation and water systems; we are distributing hot meals, shelter and hygiene materials and providing psychosocial care," explains Daniel Martin Santos, Action Against Hunger director for the Turkey operation.
Read news25/01/24
One of our Malnutrition Treatment Centers Looted in Sudan, Now Restored
The acute malnutrition admission trend among children under five (U5) is increasing due to the current crisis. Meanwhile, attacks on health care continue to be reported across the country. The Malnutrition Stabilisation Center that Action Against Hunger supports in Garsila, Central Darfur, was target of one of these attacks and was looted. The teams have renstored it and it is functional again. We tell you why this is so important.
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Action Against Hunger is deeply concerned about how the extreme increase in violence in both the West Bank and Gaza is restricting children's right to education. Both the education systems in Gaza and the West Bank suffered limitations and extensive damage long before the attacks after 7 October 2023; however, the last few months have left an unprecedented number of child deaths, attacks on schools and restrictions on movement that do not allow children to have the education to which they are entitled.
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