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.
- 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 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.
