HRE for refugees and frontline workers in Germany

Dear Donors and Supporters

It’s time for the end-year 2022 project progress report providing feedback on the activities and achievements of the fourth quarter of 2022.

Meanwhile most of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have been waived in Germany and we have come back from an online world to a physical presence dominated life again.

We have been confronted with two main challenges which have left us with new groups of people who urgently need support through our programmes

- the community of Afghans having had to leave their country along with the American and German Forces

- refugees from Ukraine who had to leave their country after the military invasion of Russian troops and an ongoing war in their country.

We have received a 6-digit grant for a two year project 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.

Our project started on the 1st of December 2022 and even though we a still in our preparatory phase with finding and engaging Ukraine refugees, a first training with professional mental health staff has already taken place. The first HRE workshop with refugees is planned for January 2023 - while the full rooll-out is supposed to start beginning of March 2023.

We want to touch about 7,000 people during the 20 months of the project which about 4,000 of them being adults.
Our programs also contain special trainings for young adults (age 13-17) and we plan to run such trainings for about 3,000 people.

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

Dear Donors and Supporters

It’s time for the third project progress in 2022 providing feedback on the activities and achievements of the second quarter of 2022.

Meanwhile most of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have been waived in Germany and we have come back from an online world to a physical presence dominated life again.

We have been confronted with two main challenges which have left us with new groups of people who urgently need support through our programmes

- the community of Afghans having had to leave their country along with the American and German Forces

- refugees from Ukraine who had to leave their country after the military invasion of Russian troops in their country

We are about to receive a 6-digit grant for a two year project 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.

Expected project start is the 1st of October 2022 if we manage to complete all the necessary paperwork.

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