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Berättelser

A curtain gently blowing in the wind from an open window.

Traumamardrömmar

När döden är nattvakt

Max, 5, is sitting on a staircase, playing a game on a phone. He recently fled to Poland from Ukraine with his mother.

Barn från Ukraina

Får hjälp med stress och trauma

Children playing on the floor.

6 saker vi gör för att hjälpa barn med trauman

Portrait of Omaia, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl. She is standing in front a grey wall, looking down.

Omaia är rädd att hennes nära och kära ska dödas

En berättelse om ihärdighet

– Livet här kan försvinna

Vid gränsen till Ukraina

Liliias inre kamp

Kriget i Ukraina är dåliga nyheter för världens flyktingar

Kriget i Ukraina är dåliga nyheter för världens flyktingar

– Räkna till 10 innan du gör nästa drag

A woman carrying a blue water can on her left shoulder. In the background we see the large, white tank where she collected the water.

Sju människors historier från sju år med krig

En mamma flyr torkan i Somalia

En av 1,4 miljoner

En mamma flyr torkan i Somalia

Ukraine: Trapped in bomb shelters.

Rapport från fronten

Fast i skyddsrum

Varje sekund – en ny flykting

Varje sekund – en ny flykting

”Mamma, kommer någon att invadera oss också nu?”

Att prata med barn om krig

”Mamma, kommer någon att invadera oss också nu?”

Portrait of Majok, a 48 year old man. He is looking out to his right.

Även ett ankare svajar i storm

Livet vid frontlinjen

"Lifelong love: What's the secret." Two grandparents and four of their grandchildren laughing and being silly. They are all sitting on a bench inside their living space.

– Vad är hemligheten?

Livslång kärlek

Liten salong, stor framtid

Liten salong, stor framtid

Att skräddarsy ett liv åt sig själv

Att skräddarsy ett liv åt sig själv

10 saker du bör veta om krisen i Ukraina

10 saker du bör veta om krisen i Ukraina

Vattentillgång kan göra stor skillnad

Vattentillgång kan göra stor skillnad

Kraften i att bestämma

Kraften i att bestämma

Camp 10 and 2W LCs

Bortom läroboken:

Inkludering i utbildning för rohingyiska ungdomar

A small, grey and white bird in a cage. It is sitting on worn, green stick. The wall behind it is pale red.

Sånger från ett vinterland

A young Afghan girl is trying her new winter boots outside her tent. She is wearing red trousers, a skirt and a red knit jacket. The ground is wet and snowy.

Farida har nya vinterskor

Glimtar av hopp

Gåvor som räddar liv

Tre skäl till att din gåva spelar roll

Flyktingarna som vill ge tillbaka

Gåvor som räddar liv

Portrait of a woman. She is wearing a pink shawl and a purple jacket.

Den största gåvan

Ett barn på väg

Gåvan av vatten

Gåvan av vatten

The family that built a farm

Familjen som byggde en gård

Julhandeln kan slå rekord i goda gärningar

Gåvor med mening

Julhandeln kan slå rekord i goda gärningar

Interview of psychologist Zemir Popovac about the importance of giving.

Photo: Beate Simarud/NRC

Gåvans psykologi

Plötsligt är du inte längre ensam

“I thought that I would come to Jordan for a month, two months...a year or two, but I have stayed here to this day. Now there is no hope of returning to Syria. Our city Homs was badly destroyed, our house was levelled because of the bombing”

Muhammad is a Syrian refugee from Homs. He fled Syria in 2012 to Jordan and now lives in Mafraq city in northeastern Jordan. Muhammad never thought that he would be a refugee in Jordan drying bread for a living, which is the only option he now has to provide a simple income for his family.

Capture date: 26/09/2021

Photo: Sherbel Dissi/ NRC

– Det svåraste för mig var att anpassa sig

In November 2020 Aklilu packed his bags for a trip from his university in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to meet his family in Humera, a small town nestled in the most northwestern part of the country. Like other soon-to-be college graduates, Aklilu was already job hunting and planning to celebrate. “I’ll see you in five weeks for our graduation ceremony,” Aklilu told his friends.
A few days after Aklilu returned to his family home in Humera, mortar-fire ripped through the small town. Conflict started between the federal government of Ethiopia and the Tigrayan Defence Force. Aklilu hurried across the border into Sudan for safety. Today, over 60,000 Ethiopians have poured into Sudan for safety like Aklilu.
Aklilu fled into Sudan with nothing and left his education in Ethiopia behind. Once proficient in the backroom politics of Chelsea football club and a top structural engineering student, Aklilu kicks dirt and waits for updates about the war in Ethiopia. He wonders if the past five years of college education have been for nothing.
“We never expected this could happen. I had heard there were issues, but to me they were just politics. I never knew things could become this bad,” Aklilu says.
When Aklilu arrived at the Um Rakuba refugee camp he lived with his mother, brother, grandmother, aunt, uncle and cousins under a blue tarp that hung over bundled-together wood. A latrine was nearby and the smell overtook the morning coffee his grandmother made. A few weeks later, his family relocated to another space and were given a white tent with a gracious opening in the front and back. But in the rainy season the tent became a parachute. Aklilu and other refugees became bleary eyed by holding the tent down each night to stave off the winds.
“When I was in Ethiopia, I loved the rainy season. You can’t do anything but sit and watch the rain come down. That was my favourite moment,” says Aklilu.
Around 1,655 other university students feel abandoned in the refugee camps like Aklilu. In Umm Rakuba there are 76 university students who have formed a group, called the Tigrayan Refugees University Students in Sudan Association, or TRUSS. The association’s document lay out why their future is in doubt.
“Going back is like choosing death,” one letter the association wrote to a visitor says. “Universities in Tigray are highly damaged and destroyed…universities outside of Tigray are giving services at this time but most Tigrayan University students are afraid to go there because of their identity." Youth like Aklilu cannot back home to continue their education in the universities of Ethiopia in fear of the violence and discrimination they might encounter for being Tigrayans.
“A result of the conflict in Ethiopia is that some of the brightest minds in the country are confined to refugee camps in Sudan,” said Will Carter, Sudan Country Director at the Norwegian Refugee Council. “If these students are given a chance somewhere, they’d be a spark for whomever accepts them.”

But TRUSS students want more than acceptance into a University — they want a university to recognize their past work.
Many hurdles stand in the way of Aklilu getting his degree. When the violence started, many like Aklilu fled and left behind most of their valuables, including their civil documents, identity cards, and education records. As result, they are now unable to provide proof for who they are or how far along they got in university. Also, in a camp where the scarce amount of money they have is barely enough for food, the students cannot afford paying for registration, books, transportation, and accommodation. The only solution would be a full-board scholarship.
Recently, Aklilu has been exploring going to a university in Ghana under a scholarship. However, this scholarship likely means that students lose the progress they have made in university and start from scratch.
Aklilu, like the other senior students in the camp, is frustrated that he probably has to spend another five years studying for a Civil Engineering Degree he was only five weeks away from receiving.
“We are waiting for the opportunity for a university that will accept to acknowledge the credit we have from the university back home. If we accept to start over, we will be 30 years old by the time we graduate. We might not find a job for a long time over. We will be wasting a lot of time in our life,” says Aklilu.On a Friday morning, members of the association gather in a communal tent for their weekly meeting. They have organized themselves into committees and are planning their week ahead. One group will fundraise among other refugees to help an isolated elderly woman in the camp; another one will meet other students and youth in the camp to connect them with NGOs.
While they wait for education, the students in TRUSS and other youth act like community mobilizers. Truss has been helping organizations like NRC to re-build shelters, organize cash distributions, facilitate children registration in school, as well as raising community issues. They receive stipends from organizations, which help them support their families.
“I liked watching movies and series back home, but I like it even more now because there’s nothing much else to do,” says Bisrat, one of Aklilu’s close friends, who now works for NRC.
The students feel trapped in part because they are. The 2014 Asylum Act gives refugees the right to move and seek an education, but in reality, they are contained to the camp. The encampment policy enforced for refugees prevents all the residents to leave the site, cutting them access to jobs and markets and curtailing their freedom of movement.
“Tigrayan refugees cannot leave the camp unless they acquire a permit from authorities for worthy reasons, linked to education, health, or jobs. Unfortunately, these permits are very hard to get – it becomes a vicious circle. They can’t get many opportunities to leave the camp, if they can’t leave the camp to look for them,” says Silvia Beccacece, former NRC Gadarif Area Manager.
Kids in the camp get access to education but are not much better off. Thanks to help from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affair, NRC was one of the first organizations to respond to learning needs in Umm Rakuba. Since then, NRC has been able to expand the quality and durability of the schools with the help of Education Cannot Wait. Around 2,050 children, aged between 6 and 14, go to the four schools NRC has built in different areas of the camp. Resources remain limited. The only textbooks available were ferried across from Ethiopia, and the children attend their classes by sitting on the floors of sand.
Still, students are grateful for what they receive. Nati Teame, 10, is one of NRC’s schoolchildren in the Um Rakuba camp.
“I wake up in the morning and pass the time until it’s time for school. I’ve never been late,” Nati said. “My parents never got the chance to be educated, and I don’t want the same thing to happen to me.”

Photo: Ingrid/Prestetun

– Den största gåvan är att ha mina vänner omkring mig

A man playing with his three-year-old daughter by throwing her up in the air.

Att vara pappa i en konflikt utan slut

En dödlig kombination av torka och konflikt

Nuela stands outside of her home in Boali, Central African Republic.

Nuela Ngaiboma is a 29 year old woman originally from Birlo village in Central African Republic. During CAR’s post electoral violence in December 2020, armed groups attacked Nuela’s village, Birlo. She fled and after an arduous journey she made it to Boali to stay with her aunt. In Boali, she received cash assistance from NRC to get back on her feet. She lives with her three childre, (two sons and a daughter) and sells food outside her house in Boali.

“When I was in the fields, I saw many people had started to run. When I asked why they were running, they said an armed group had entered the village and they had taken control of the village. I asked those running if they had seen my children. They said they had just fled as quick as they could. I had no choice but to go back and try to find my children. They tried to stop me from going to the village saying it was too dangerous. I told them I can’t abandon my children, and that I’m going to look for them so we can all stay together in the bush. When I returned to the village, I saw the armed men had taken the village. I heard gunshots coming from all directions. There were no villagers anywhere, there were not even any animals. I found my children and I ran with them to the bush until I reached the edge of a stream. When my aunt here in Boali learned about the attack, She called me and told me to come to Boali with a taxi-moto. I told her that there were no taxi-motos anywhere. How am I going to make it all the way to Boali? So my aunt asked some young people from Boali, to come to try to find me. They crossed through the bush on foot and they found me. It was around 9am when they found me and so we crossed through the bush together. It was around 4pm when we arrived here in Boali. As soon as my aunt saw me, she started to cry. She asked me to stay here and that’s why I’m here to this day. While I was here, NRC came here. They provided me with around $90 in cash in assistance. This helped to reduce my hardship here a little. One of my challenges right now is that my children are not going to school. They’re staying at home because their school is too dangerous. The children can’t go there because the school is surrounded by mines. I have many problems and I’m living in fear. I want there to be peace so my children can continue to go to school. I have so many worries on my mind. Because I am afraid. I am worried that what I just experienced might happen all over again. I just want peace for my country. So that we can work in our fields, go about our business, and see our children go to school while we live in peace. Then we will move past the memories of conflict and live in peace.” Nuela Ngaiboma, 29.

Photo: Itunu Kuku/NRC
Date: 13 July 2021

Centralafrikanska republiken

Nuelas mardröm

– Jag är hungrig

– Jag är hungrig

Världslärardagen

En fristad från krigets trauma

När elever och lärare blev måltavlor

Attacker mot utbildning

När elever och lärare blev måltavlor

DO NOT USE (embargoed by head office)
Photo: Daniel Wheeler/NRC

Description: Ala (22) poses for a portrait.

Factual information

First name: Ala
Age: 22
Current location: Za’atari Refugee Camp, Jordan
From: Daraa, Syria. Fled to Jordan in 2012
Occupation: Seamstress at NRC’s youth programme.
NRC beneficiary: Yes, Ala received seamstress training as part of NRC’s youth training programme and now works as a seamstress as part of the programme.

Interview

Ala’s words

“I fled Syria in 2012 because of the heavy fighting. I left on foot at 10pm and arrived at the Jordanian border at 6am the next morning. We travelled at night because we were terrified of being attached on the way. There was around 100 of us and many people were injured.

When we arrived at the border and were met by the army (Jordanian Army) I felt like a drowning person that had been saved. I felt on edge the entire journey and now I had soldiers telling me ‘You are safe now’, it was all so overwhelming.

I live with my five sisters and five brothers. I am the eldest, so I feel responsible for them, and I looked after them during coronavirus.

I found out about NRC’s youth programme after doing a four-month sewing scholarship with a different organisation. I became very passionate about sewing so I wanted to continue my training and the programme at NRC seemed perfect. When I started on the programme, I realised that I still had so much to learn, and it was very intensive but rewarding.

The programme is delivered in three phases, with the first stages being training and the third phase being an employment opportunity.

I live on the other side of the camp and walk an hour each day to get to the centre. It’s a long walk in the desert heat but it’s so worth it.

An average day for me is waking up at 6am and after getting ready, I walk to the centre and we started work at 8:30am. At 12:30am we have a lunch break and then we work until 3pm. After I walk back home, I usually have a nap because the work is tiring but very rewarding.

When asked what the programme means to her, she replies with: “This opportunity that NRC has given me has provided me with financial independence and an opportunity for success in my life. My father is so proud of me and that is very important to me.”

When asked what she wants to do in the future, she says: “In the future, I want to open my own sewing centre for women which has integrity and quality – just like NRC.”

Alas beslutsamhet ger resultat

Bygga morgondagens ledare

Skolbarn med krigstrauman

Alltid rädd för att det hemska ska hända igen

NRC Flyktinghjälpen stannar kvar i Afghanistan

NRC Flyktinghjälpen stannar kvar i Afghanistan

Äntligen tillbaka i skolan

Det finns ett akut behov av att investera i utbildning till barn på flykt

Kommer han att tvingas välja Medelhavet igen?

Kommer han att tvingas välja Medelhavet igen?

Norwegian Refugee Council constructed a primary school in Barsanguni village in Kismayo town, lower Jubba region. The school comprises of four temporary classrooms, an office, four gender-segregated latrines and child friendly space.

Both local community and Jubbaland state’s Ministry of Education actively engaged in the site identification, mobilization, enrolment of students, and construction of the primary school for the vulnerable host-communities.

A total of 587 students (320 boys, 267 girls) were enrolled and are currently attending morning and afternoon classes. The school uses the recently launched Somali curriculum and operates up to grade-3. The school has 5 teachers who are provided with teacher incentives by NRC.

Nine community education committees (CEC members) 3 of them females have been given capacity building training on school management, leadership and CEC roles. The CEC members are currently taking part in the day to day management of the primary school.

Children in Barsanguni didn’t have opportunity to attend to school due to lack of school in the area. Before the collapse of the Siyad Barre regime in 1990, the village only had a 2 classroom school those were later destroyed by the warring sides during the civil war. The village had no school since then, leaving hundreds of children without education.

Somalia has one of the lowest primary school enrolment rates in the world. More than three million children in Somalia are out of school. Those in South and Central Somalia are affected the worst. Parents are not able to fund their children’s education. In addition to poverty, long distances to school, and safety concerns.

The Integrated protection solutions for women and children affected by displacement is a project that seeks to substantially reduce challenges that are impeding the protection and recovery potentials of women and children affected by displacement

To achieve this overarching goal, specialized protection services are combined with tangible assistance packages to assist displacement affected communities develop resilient capacities necessary to address protection issues affecting women and children.

Specific priorities include ensuring displacement affected children and youth learn in protective and child-friendly environment, strengthening and expanding prevention and response to Sexually Gender Based Violence (SGBV) and access to protection services for IDPs, and consolidating recovery potentials for displaced women and youth. A total of 20,204 individuals are targeted across four hotspot districts in Jubaland (Kismayo) and Somaliland (Buroa, Hargeia, and Erigavo). This project is generously funded by King Salman Humanitarian Aid & Relief Centre (KSrelief).

Photo: Abdulkadir/NRC.

”Min passion för läraryrket håller mig igång”

Barnen som är rädda för skolan

Barnen i Gaza återupplever bombningarna i sina drömmar

Barnen i Gaza återupplever bombningarna i sina drömmar

Neglected Crises List

Världens mest försummade kriser år 2020

Staden med de bortglömda flyktingarna

Dadji is a young mother from PK 13 in Bangui. She fled the violence 3 years ago to Chad. Dadji and her children decided to return to Kaga Bandoro recently. They haven’t received any food assistance for four months now.

"When we arrived we were given food, but since then nothing. We are forced to fetch wood from the bush and sell it to get something to eat.

We need help. Where we are, we don't have a school or a hospital.
The international community has forgotten us. For four months we have not received any help.

I am afraid because we are not safe, even in this camp. All over the country, when we sleep at night, we are afraid." Dadji said.

Date: 10th February 2021
Location: Mbela camp - Kaga Bandoro
Photo: Tom Peyre-Costa/NRC

Vi behöver din hjälp för att stoppa negligerandet

75 år med NRC Flyktinghjälpen

NRC Flyktinghjälpens obesjungna hjältar

Under 2020 hjälpte vi nästan 12 miljoner människor

Rekordhöga siffror

Under 2020 hjälpte vi nästan 12 miljoner människor

Möt NRC Flyktinghjälpens vardagshjältar

Möt NRC Flyktinghjälpens vardagshjältar

75 år för människor på flykt

75 år för människor på flykt

Sex år av fullständig förödelse

Ten-year-old Osama has not known any other life than being a refugee. He was born two months after his family fled to Za’atari camp in Jordan in 2012.

“When the situation in Syria deteriorated I had no choice than to leave to get my family to safety,” says Osama’s father, Mohammad, 49. “I through we would return after two months but did I never imagined 10 years would pass by and we would still be refugees.”

Osama only knows Syria through the story of his parents. In fact, he has never even met any of his relatives living in Syria. “I show him the videos they send on WhatsApp to me and I tell him who everyone is,” says Mohammed.

“My dad tells me about his childhood in Syria, what our house was like and about my grandfather and that he was a very good man. He always tried to help people and I wish I had met him before he died,” says Osama. “I like to look at pictures of him and see the farm where my dad grew up.”

“My son, Osama, can’t even dream of the future because he has lived in limbo his entire life. I encourage him to study and do sports and take any training opportunity he can get but I really don’t know what type of future he will face if we remain refugees,” Mohammad concludes.

Photo: Daniel Wheeler/NRC

10 år av krig i Syrien

Ett decennium av krig

Att bli mamma i en krigszon

10 år av krig i Syrien

Att bli mamma i en krigszon

Arwads liv som flykting under pandemin

Arwads liv som flykting under pandemin

Åtta sätt som vi står upp för kvinnors rättigheter

Internationella kvinnodagen

Åtta sätt som vi står upp för kvinnors rättigheter

After receiving training in construction and masonry, former child soldier Mark* constructs a latrine outside his grandmothers house in Kasai-Central, DRC.

*Name changed to protect identity

Photo: Itunu Kuku/NRC

En före detta barnsoldats största kamp

"Det nya normala":

Hjälpinsatser vid frontlinjen

A child drinking water in Kharef camp, Yemen, thanks to a new solar-powered pump linked to a borehole.

När vattnet tar slut

Ali, 16, drinks water from an animal trough, constructed by NRC and funded by FCDO. Photo: Abdulkadir/NRC

Hur borrhål förändrar liv i Somalia

Som månadsgivare är du en del av något speciellt i Sudan

Som månadsgivare är du en del av något speciellt i Sudan

Lebanese and Syrian children, who were affected by the Beirut explosion, are participating in the Psychosocial support sessions implemented by the Norwegian Refugee Council to help them deal with their traumas.

Photo: Zaynab Mayladan/NRC

Hjälper Beiruts barn att läka

Skräddarkarriärer för ungdomar i Somaliland

Skräddarkarriärer för ungdomar i Somaliland

Att undervisa under en pandemi

Att undervisa under en pandemi

Displaced by conflict in 2014, Sidamari had to flee from her home in Hong to Cameroon. She and her two children at the time were forced to stay in the bushes for many nights with only 200 naira at her disposal.

"I used to teach in a private school then, and things were okay for us. They (Opposition Armed Groups) came in the morning on that day and the only thing we could do was run."

It was so bad she could not feed her then 5 months old child. It was just her and her two year old child at the time that had to flee.

Now, she is back to Mubi where there is relative calm with her family and is one of our Education Facilitators.

"I am happy doing this job especially when i know that the children understand what i am teaching them"

She's glad to be a part of the NRC family.

Photo: Samuel Jegede/NRC

Efter lockdown ger utbildning hopp till Nigeria

När coronalarmet gick

När coronalarmet gick

Äntligen kan Amina (7) le

Äntligen kan Amina (7) le

Glimtar av hopp

Glimtar av hopp

Abdul-Aziz whispering on her mom ear

Ett hem - men inta hemma

När Dijlas älskade hus bombades i kriget mot IS

Ett hem - men inta hemma

Hur vi ger flyktingar en plats de kan kalla sitt hem

Flydde och flyttade in i fiendens hus

Flydde och flyttade in i fiendens hus

Sista minuten-förhandlingar skyddade Ahmed från vräkning

Sista minuten-förhandlingar skyddade Ahmed från vräkning

Her family fled to Lebanon from their home in Syria after being caught up in the war there, in 2013.

They moved into their current tent in 2006.Thanks to wood supplied by NRC, the family have been able to double the size of their home since they first bought it from its previous tenant. NRC also supplied and maintains toilets in their settlement, supplies water for drinking and washing, hygiene kits and waterproofing materials.

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Photo: Sam Tarling/NRC

Ett hem - men inta hemma

Hur Fatima gjorde tältet till ett familjehem

Foto: Det kongelige hoff

H.K.H. Kronprins Haakon

Mötte ungdomar på flykt

Richards uppdrag: att göra hus till hem

Ett hem - men inta hemma

Richards uppdrag: att göra hus till hem

Monique poses for a photo behind her new house.

Photo. Itunu Kuku/NRC

Äntligen hemma efter fem månader på flykt i skogen

Den stora julklappsguiden – ge en gåva med mening

Den stora julklappsguiden – ge en gåva med mening

Fyra år under en presenning

Ett hem - men inta hemma

Fyra år under en presenning

Mahmoud’s family received help from the Norwegian Refugee Council to complete repairs to their home after it was damaged by the explosion at Beirut port on August 4th.

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Photo: Sam Tarling/NRC

Ett hem - men inta hemma

Deras hem förstördes i kriget – sen small det igen

Fatima Bashir, 9, sits with her mother Sarah Mohammad Omara Shehadeh, 42, in her family’s apartment in Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon, on October 23, 2020.

«Hemma» är där hoppet bor

Sju skäl till varför ett hem är mer än bara tak över huvudet

Ett hem - men inta hemma

Sju skäl till varför ett hem är mer än bara tak över huvudet

Sara Ishaq, 17 years old

Global överblick

Då Sara var sju och skulle gifta sig

Flickorna på den afghanske drömakademin

Flickorna på den afghanske drömakademin

– Om inte viruset tar livet av oss riskerar vi att dö av svält

– Om inte viruset tar livet av oss riskerar vi att dö av svält

NORCAP experts have helped set up the new camp on Moria, after fires destroyed the previous camp. We also have a site planner on the island, supporting coordination and setting up water tanks and sewage facilities. (Photo: NORCAP/Alkisti Mavraki) September 2020

Vi är på plats i Moria

“Comparing the school general condition now and last year, you can tell a lot has changed to the better; now there are windows and doors and we are not sitting on the floor any longer since NRC provided desks and tables. Also improvements in the way the teacher explained information helped us understand them in a better way and the new learning spaces made us love school and willing to attend it every day”. *Khalil Student –5 grade – Harasta school

Glädjer sig över skolan

Photo: Racha El Daoi/NRC

Hundratusentals blev hemlösa på ett ögonblick

Rachel is twenty-years-old and lives with her parents, siblings and her 2-year-old daughter (name: Guylaine). She became pregnant when she was 17 with a boy from her village, but he disappeared when he revealed that she was expecting his child. Since August 2018, Rachel has been attending the NRC tailoring class in Kitchanga. These courses will last six months. After training, her dream is to start her own tailoring shop and to be able to give her daughter an education to in the future. She loves tailoring and she has made dresses for herself and her daughter. Before she was selected for the NRC tailoring class, she had nothing to do and now she is very happy to be able to attend the classes.

Rachel is from the village Ngingwe, Masisi territory, which is six kilometers from Kitchanga in the North Kivu province. She and her family had to flee during the night four years ago when the clashes broke out between armed groups. They travelled the whole night and reached Kitchanga in the morning. Rachel was very afraid when she had to flee and during this violence where she lost her grandmother and uncle. She misses them a lot. Rachel is still constantly afraid, and does not want to go back home until it’s safe. Since the attack, some people from the village have been back home to pick up food and their belongings, but they cannot sleep there, as the situation is still unsafe. Rachel has not been back home in Ngingwe since she and her family fled their home.

Rachel does not feel safe in Kitchanga either. She is scared that armed groups will enter Kitchanga and take over the town in the future. She does not feel well about being a displaced youth in Kitchanga. It is a big challenge for her because she is sometimes neglected. Since she also a single mother, people austersize her.

There’s also a lack of food in Kitchanga, and Rachel does not have enough money to pay school fees, therefore she dropped out of school after second grade in secondary school. Rachel also struggles to pay for health care and clothes for her daughter. After tailoring class, she usually helps her mother to do some household activities, for instance, fetching water and cooking dinner.

Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC

De bortglömda unga

Global överblick

Covid-19 och konflikter: en dödlig blandning

Global överblick

79,5 miljoner människor på flykt i coronatider

Portrait of a displaced woman at one of the unformal sites hosting displaced families in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria.

Världens mest försummade flyktingkriser i 2019

We use an illustration photo in order to protect “David’s” identity. The photo is from Brasil and was taken in August 2019. The man in the photo worked on a coffee farm in conditions analogous to slavery. Photo: Adriano Machado/Reuters/NTB Scanpix

Ansikte mot ansikte med en slav

Coronavirus: Det här gör vi

Global | 08. maj 2020

Coronavirus: Det här gör vi

NRC Flyktinghjälpen jobbar intensivt med att hindra smittspridning av coronaviruset i områden med sårbara människor på flykt. Parallellt fortsätter vi arbetet med att rädda liv.

The protracted crisis in the Donbas region of Ukraine is well into its sixth year. The contact line continues to separate Government controlled area (GCA) and Non-Government controlled area (NGCA) of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. This separation isolates much of the population in GCA from important services and livelihood providers in urban centres in NGCA. Along the 427-kilometre contact line, there are five open exit-entry checkpoints (EECP) in Hnutove, Novotroitske, Marinka, Maiorsk and Stanytsia Luhanska, where internally displaced and conflict-affected people cross to visit relatives, buy food and other goods, receive social payments and check on their property.

Since the opening of these EECPs, the number of people crossing the contact line continues to grow. Every month, there are about 1,3 million people recorded crossing through all five of the EECPs. Long queues and correspondingly, long waiting times at checkpoints continue to be reported. During their journey to cross the contact line, very often people face difficult weather conditions and slow processing times. These civilians who cross the contact line have limited access to basic services such as drinking water, latrines, weather shelters, heating, and medical care.

Photo: Dmytro Tielushkin/The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Sex fakta efter sex år av kris

With support from the Norwegian government, NRC is providing thousands of soaps to Afghan families living in settlements in Iran to encourage hand washing, the most effective preventive measure for COVID-19. Distribution is paired with hygiene promotion messaging through different leaflets reinforcing key points provided by the Ministry of Health.

NRC Flyktinghjälpen trappar upp sitt arbete

Jeanette witnessed her three children being killed.

Jeanette tvingades bevittna morden på sina tre barn

Sex saker du bör veta om den humanitära krisen i Idlib

Sex saker du bör veta om den humanitära krisen i Idlib

Fatoumata, 67 and her family moved several times to escape from armed attacks. Originally from Sigue-Raguin, she fled the first time to seek safety in Foubé. But the executions and threats continued and they had to flee from Foubé to Kaya.

"The armed men have chased us away from our homes and killed our loved ones. That’s why we fled and came here. We don’t have any food, we don’t have a roof over our head, we have nothing at all. We are asking for assistance." She said.

"We left yesterday and arrived here today. We haven’t eaten anything since the sun rose.

Just the day before yesterday, 6 people were caught and killed while they were on the road. After this, the attackers went to… I don’t remember where, but so many people have been killed.

We were all filled with fear so we immediately took to the road and by the grace of God we were able to escape. Our wish is to settle down in peace and receive some food or any other assistance. What we need the most is some assistance and a place where we can stay. All we are praying for now is to receive some assistance." Fatoumata added.

Date: 21 January 2020
Location: Kaya - Center North Burkina Faso
Photo: Tom Peyre-Costa/NRC

Fem saker du bör veta om krisen i Burkina Faso

AFGHANISTAN/Mazar-i-Sharif
Nov 2019
Photo: Ingrid Prestetun /NRC

Mama khal- Mahmood (67): at the NRC distributing point waiting to receive money to bay a stove and firewood for the winter.

She is a widow and female HH living with her grandsons/ daughters. There are 16 members in her family. She is making wool waving to support her family and additionally her closed relatives collect money from people and support her on monthly basis with very small amount of money.

The family is included in NRC's shelter upgrade project and winterization program.

Hur Ana fick tak över huvudet

“It was very cold inside and I thought if I go outside and walk I might feel warmer,” says Roqia, 11, standing outside her makeshift home in a snowy day in KABUL.

Rogia doesn’t have enough clothes and proper slippers to keep her warm in a cold. Her family do not have sufficient firewood to keep the oven burning all the time and they only burn it once in a day and if the weather is freezing cold, they might burn it twice in a day. They burn plastics, cartons, packets and other waste materials they have collected during the summer season.
“The house we have is out of plastic bags, blankets and mud. As soon as the oven dies the home gets cold,” she says. “It’s very cold during the night and we wakeup many times due to cold. Sometimes, I feel pain and burn in my feet, legs and back due to the cold.”

Kabul gets very cold during the winter and last night only, the temperature dropped to -16 Celsius. Photo: Enayatullah Azad/ NRC

Kabul drabbat av kyla och snö

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