Syria: Partnership strengthens relief work
Social entrepreneur: Children with disabilities must also be able to go to school!
"Becoming a mother connects you with the mothers of the world"
Armenia: Children with disabilities are given the opportunity to develop
'I want to lift the vulnerable out of poverty'
The Easter message of resurrection is seen in the survival of refugees
Ukrainian displaced people holding their breath: Should we stay or flee?
'Let’s help the mountain people of Nepal to mitigate climate disaster'
‘I want to awaken understanding and empathy for other cultures’
Dilorom works to help children and lift whole communities
Nayre checks that the money arrives
Ukraine: Active partners provide help quickly
Program manager: ‘There is always possibility for development’
Mission East helps thousands of Afghans in need
Anthony is cosmopolitan with a flair for economics
Ukrainian refugees are recovering in the Mission East-supported center
Ukrainians flee shelling and are received by Hungarian volunteers who work 20 hours a day to provide them with food, medicine and a place to rest. Betina Gollander-Jensen reports from a Mission East-supported center where the volunteers’ mood is high.
Mission East Managing Director Betina Gollander-Jensen is now at the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, where refugees are being given food, health checks and a place to sleep in a school that has been transformed into a refugee center.
Thousands of Ukrainians are now receiving vital help
Collection goes directly to Ukrainians in need through active local partner
New program director: 'I want to make sure things happen and that people are involved'
Mission East requests donations to help Ukraine
‘People with disabilities should be treated with respect’
Lalkaura was bullied because of her disability. But a self-help group gave her the knowledge and courage to protest and teach about human rights in the village. "All people have dignity," she says.
Discrimination is common in traditional societies such as the Nepalese. Women are often referred to hard housework. And people with disabilities are often bullied.
Mission East is helping thousands of displaced people in Nigeria
Jadeni became a leader and entrepreneur
Sana fights for women's rights in Iraq
Sana Basim is Mission East's Head of Programmes in Iraq. She is happy working for a flexible organization that helps women - irrespective of their religious affiliations and ethnic identities - to survive abuse and support themselves and their children.
Yazidi paintings show women's struggle for dignity
- It touches me deeply that the Yazidi women say stop the abuse. And that they have found dignity. This is what visual artist Karsten Auerbach says after seeing paintings by Yazidis during trauma treatment in Iraq.
Young girls are fighting climate change
Climate change has really taken its toll on Nepal, where the vulnerable mountain areas are deeply dependent on a healthy ecosystem to be able to provide food on the table in the poor areas. A group of young girls have decided to do something about it.
Paralyzed baby learned how to stand, walk and grab
Little Madina was paralyzed as a result of a congenital brain injury, but rehabilitation at a Mission East-backed rehabilitation center in Tajikistan made her stand up and grab with her hands. Today she can put on clothes herself.
Bees help family survive economic collapse in Afghanistan
"When Rustaq fell into the hands of the Taliban, the bees became my only means of supporting my family," said Zaidulkhair, who had received training and equipment for beekeeping from Mission East.
I read an amazing story from our work in Afghanistan today. A story that shows how important it is to provide people with a livelihood by teaching them to grow crops and keep livestock - or that which the wonderful news today is about: beekeeping.
Afghan father: 'My wife is ill; now I can take her to the hospital'
Mission East provides cash assistance to thousands of vulnerable people in Afghanistan. One of the recipients is Anwar, who has lost a leg and has eight children to support.
In the midst of political uncertainty and changing Corona variants, Mission East is working hard to bring aid to the most vulnerable in Afghanistan.
"Can you really enjoy such a varied diet?"
Mission East teaches the Mara people in Myanmar to grow varied crops and prepare nutritious food. The activities create hope and shines a small light in a land overwhelmed by darkness.
You are what you eat. The well-known pun is also applicable in Myanmar. For here the Mara people in the Chin state eat mainly rice and are often unaware of the many nutrient-rich crops that can be grown or picked in the forest.
Women produce protection face-masks and form bonds of friendship in Aleppo
Meet five women who have now earned both their livelihoods and quality of life by working at a Mission-supported center.
Mission East is part of national tv-collection
Funds from the large-scale Danish Collection on January 29 will go to displaced and Corona-affected children in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
Help the children of the Corona crisis. This is the theme for this year's Danmarks Indsamling (Danish Collection), which culminates in a major TV show on the national television DR1 on Saturday evening, 29 January 2022.
Compassion is at the core of new strategy
Mission East has adopted a strategy towards 2030. Six strategic goals optimize and target efforts to meet the needs of vulnerable people in connection with the Corona pandemic, climate crisis and local development.
Nadia escaped after 16 months in “hell”
Here is the story of a 21-year-old woman who was captured by ISIS and used as a sex slave for almost a year and a half before she managed to escape. She survived but has had to live with violent trauma and is only now coming back to life with support from Mission East.
Chhaka is a climate champion
Chhaka is campaigning against use of plastic and deforestation in Nepal and pushing for local authorities to become better at preventing floods and landslides.
31-year-old Chhaka is energetic, social and good at campaigning. He has received an award for this from Mission East’s local partner in Nepal, KIRDARC.
Mission East is becoming even more locally anchored
Help for marginalised women in Nepal
Christmas greetings from the Managing Director
Mission East becomes strategic partner
Syrian refugees hit the bottom of Lebanese society
Joohi Haleem from Mission East has just returned from a visit to Lebanon, where she, among other things visited a camp where Syrian refugee families have lived for 10 years. They are now being helped to grow vegetables that can increase families' health and energy.
Mission East's program manager Joohi Haleem has just returned from a 10-day trip to Lebanon, where she oversaw Mission East's projects with program director Alexander Davey.
Afghans in crisis receive help to survive the winter
PRESS RELEASE: Mission East has just received over 23 million DKK from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for emergency aid in northeastern Afghanistan and in the border area near Tajikistan. The help includes provision of food, winter equipment and protection of girls, women and minorities.
Modest efforts are yielding great results in Nepal
- I have not seen so drastic an increase in income elsewhere before! With so little input! Managing Director General Betina Gollander-Jensen has visited Nepal and seen the poor multiply their income with the help of knowledge and support from self-help groups.
Mission East distributes emergency aid in northeastern Afghanistan
Mission East has distributed blankets, soap and kitchen utensils to 412 displaced people in Takhar and Badakhshan provinces. 206 of the aid packages were distributed to mudslide victims in the Warduj district.
Since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August, distress has escalated in the conflict-torn country. In addition to lack of money and supplies, the country has been hit by widespread drought, massive unemployment and a galloping Covid-19 pandemic.
An atypical finance professional with an awareness of both columns and culture
Annette Them Serup is the new director of administration and accounting at Mission East.
What do Chinese, cultural understanding and a career in NGO finance have to do with each other?
Art Therapist: Yazidi women paintings act as truthful witnesses of unimaginable abuse
Paintings by women from the Yazidi minority speak clearly about grief, pain and suffering, says an art therapist with experience from the aftermath of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Yazidi women release their pain by painting
At Mission East's Civic Center in the Iraqi city of Sinjar, a group of girls and women sit and paint the assaults they cannot express in words. Pain over death, grief over missing friends and their own trauma after violence and sexual abuse.
The Managing Directors 5 landmarks for the future
We are known for providing quality assistance to people in crisis due to war and disaster. In future, we must have even more focus on sustainable and climate-adapted initiatives in collaboration with local organizations and populations, writes Managing Director Betina Gollander-Jensen in this article.
René Hartzner: Mission East is becoming more and more effective
On November 18, 2021, it will be exactly 30 years since René Hartzner founded Mission East. Here he thinks back - and forward - to an organization that has the simple purpose: to help people. "We are moving in the right direction, the organization is becoming more and more well-founded, and the employees are becoming more skilled," he says.
"We just wanted to help."
This is how local Nepalese learn to mitigate climate disasters
Most people in the remote Palata Municipality have learned what to do if their houses and fields are flooded by meltwater from the Himalayas. And they know what crops can survive through the changing climate. All as a result of disaster prevention knowledge gained through Mission East.