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Arrived in Bosnia

Our team arrived in Bosnia, the treatment of refugees has begun.

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by Jonas Grünwald

Balkan Response – getting closer towards our Bosnia Response, putting Lesvos on hold

We finished our preparations for our mission in Bosnia. Disillusionment with our returned team from Lesbos at the same time.

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by Jonas Grünwald

One Year Battle of Mosul – One Year TSP

In the summer of 2017, the reconquest of Mosul made headlines worldwide. A humanitarian disaster was in full swing, when we arrived there with our teams. A retrospection with insights from our blog.

 

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by Jonas Grünwald

New missions, new places: Afrin and Raqqa ... an Update from Syria

Our mission is (most probably, fingers crossed) starting this week. And the Mobile Hospital is almost in Afrin. Our very busy CADUS Head of Mission Anne Dekker with an Update from Northern Syria.

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Meet the Team: Henryk

Henryk was in Iraq for CADUS last year. His engagement for the rebuild of medical structures isn't over after his return to Germany.

Interview and picture: Kenny Karpov

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First training of the Mobile Hospital for the new owners

On Thursday, May 24th, CADUS and the Kurdish Red Crescent joined together for the first training of the mobile hospital. About 15 Kurdish Red Crescent crew members joined the CADUS project coordinators, infield head of mission, and technician to learn about the operation of the mobile hospital which will soon be utilized in the field.  

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New mission area in Northern Syria

Operations manager Fee visited areas in Northern Syria around Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor to plan future assignments for the CADUS team and to see where CADUS missions could help most effectively.

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translation by Lisa Otto

A small ultrasound unit can make a big difference

On April 10th, we were happy to present the Al-Khansaa children’s and women’s hospital at East Mosul with a donation from FujiFilm SonoSite. The company contributed one of the latest mobile ultrasound devices available on the market. Our volunteer physician, Dr. Henryk Pich (anaesthesiologist, emergency and intensive care physician) was on site for the handover.

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report by Country Coordinator Fee Baumann, translation by Andreas Schüler

Short Update from Iraq

Our technician, Chris has arrived in Erbil to inspect the trucks prior to their departure to Syria. Due to the fact that they haven't been moved for a long time, there are a few items needing to be repaired and serviced. The next step is to get all of the necessary permissions for the passage to syria. If everything's going smoothly, we can start this month or the beginning of April at the latest.

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Fee Baumann

Our thoughts are with the women in Syria

Years of conflict and associated therewith the humanitarian crisis in Syria had led to Millions of women undergo violence, hunger and misery. For most of them – free or imprisoned, equal or oppressed, injured and traumatized, hungering and providing – today is a day to fight for their rights!

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