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.

Annette Them Serup is the new director of administration and accounting at Mission East.

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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.

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.

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.

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."