Dear Donors and Supporters
This is our second progress report for 2025
We keep on meeting two main challenges regarding our refugee work which concerns two groups of people who urgently need support through our programmes
- refugees from Ukraine who had to leave their country after the military invasion of Russian troops and an ongoing war in their country
- the still not ending stream of refugess from Africa and the Middle East, even though numbers getting less as shown by the recent EU report
During the past months we have been mainly working on wrapping up our26 month project co-funded by the European Union for our HRE programme with which we are not only providing urgently needed trauma relief and re-empowerment for Ukrainian refugees, but also at the same time want to show with an accompanying research that with our programme we can economically and capacity-wise avoid an already building congestion of the mental health system in the EU countries. 80% will be covered by EU funds and still 20% (about 130,000 EUR) will need to be covered by funds still to be raised. So further and generous support is very much needed.
The project runs under the name "Peace of Mind and Strength of Heart". Our project website is https://pmsh.iahv-peace.org
In addition we continue our trauma relief work in Germany which also needs significant funding.
Our project started on the 1st of December 2022 and meanwhile the project has been completed end of January 2025
We wanted to touch about 6,400 people during the 22 months of the project end finally ended up with almost 7,000 (6,970), about 3,000 of them being adults.
Our programs also contained special trainings for young adults (age 13-17) and we plan to run such trainings for about 3,000 people.
We have now completed 125 workshops in different locations in Germany (Rosenheim, Munich, Worms, Mannheim, Hamburg, Chemnitz, Cologne, Bonn, Frankfurt, Dresden, Düren, Marburg, Bremen, Traunreut, Heidelberg) with a few workshops specially designed for children age 6-11 and reached 1,162 refugees as a whole, whereas our partners in Lithuania and Poland reached ~3,100 (LT) and ~2,800 PL)..
We have also created 25 new Ukrainian trainers for our HRE workshop (ToT - training of trainers) in the past year who are now active in Germany and Ukraine.
We have attached an overview about the training and participant numbers.
The work is further supported by a two-month follow-up period per training allowing for sustainability.
After the end of the official project, in order to maintain sustainability, we will continue our trauma relief work with our powerful tools - the HRE workshops and programs and with follow-up meetings for workshop and program graduates. Not only with Ukrainian refugees but refugees of all origin.
Especially in the Munich/Rosenheim area we keep on running our HRE workshops and programs still mainly with refugees from Ukraine.
So far the news.
Again a BIG THANK YOU for all your support !!
We will keep you posted on further developments.
We look forward to your ongoing support and would appreciate if you also continued talking to families and friends about our project to spread awareness of this important matter.
Best regards
IAHV HRE Germany Team
