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Jordan

What’s it like to be a young refugee?

Movses was at his house when the explosion happened, he ran to the balcony immediately when he heard the sound, the blast threw him, his wife and his 10-year-old daughter away. "When we regained consciousness, I didn't believe my eyes, everything was destroyed, it was like an atomic bomb", Movses explains, "I couldn't find a place to stay at with my family, so we are sleeping in our damaged house, what else can we do?" Volunteers helped Movses cleaning his apartment and giving assessment, "this is not enough, many people came and promised us help, but honestly, I don't see a point in that, this is hopeless. I want to leave this country, there's no hope for us to stay anymore. Do you want more than that?" Movses was injured on his head and all over his body. "My injuries weren't as painful as seeing my daughter covered in blood, I wasn't able to protect my own daughter." He concluded.

Photo: Zaynab Mayladan/NRC

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Lebanon

Beirut: The blast that shook their lives

Ahmed Ali Muqbel Ali is a father of eight children. Formerly a stone-breaker, he and his family fled their village in Maqbana district in 2017. Ahmed Ali and his wife and eight children now live in a tent in Al-Malika camp in Taiz. He is jobless, and struggling to provide his family with enough food amid the spread of Covid-19 and an increasing lack of work.

In the last two months, he has seen the cost of flour go up by 40%, and other food prices rising too. “We are more scared of food prices than of corona.”

Ali is doing everything he can to ease the impact on his children, including dividing up one meal into three so they feel like they still are eating three meals. If there isn’t enough food, he gives it to the children and goes hungry himself. “There are times we only eat when necessary. The food for one meal, we divide it into three meals. We used to buy vegetables, fruits and other things but now we can’t. Two weeks ago, we went two days without any food.”

Photo: Khalid Al-Banna/NRC

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Yemen

Where vegetables are a luxury

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Lebanon | 09. Aug 2020

Beirut Conference: “Funding must be immediately disbursed following pledges, and Lebanese need to be heard”

Norwegian Refugee Council’s Lebanon Country Director Carlo Gherardi’s reaction to the outcome of the aid conference co-organised by the UN and France for the explosion response in Beirut, 9 August 2020.

Africa|Ethiopia | 06. Aug 2020

15,000 Ethiopian returnees receive emergency Covid-19 assistance at quarantine sites

Over 15,000 Ethiopian returnees, many of whom are vulnerable women and children languishing at quarantine sites, have received critical emergency assistance as the country continues to curb the spread of Covid-19. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is working alongside the Ethiopian government to provide hygiene kits and other essential items to returning migrants.

Global | 29. Jul 2020

Wealthy nations leave millions behind with alarming funding disparities amid pandemic

Less than a quarter of this year’s $40 billion humanitarian aid appeal has been received to support 250 million vulnerable people, against the backdrop of an estimated $11 trillion coronavirus stimulus for wealthy nations.

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Inside NRC camp management center in the outskirts of Kabul city, our staff provides masks to visitors from the camp and also guide them on prevention measures and train them how can they reduce any potential risk of infection to them and their family.

NRC Camp Management is working in 20 settlements consist of 4000 households and 35000 individuals, out of 52 informal settlements in Kabul. Photo: Enayatullah Azad / NRC

Global | 22. May 2020

The crippling cost of Covid-19 on refugees

Date: 22 January 2020
Location: Barsalogho - Center North Burkina Faso
Photo: Tom Peyre-Costa/NRC

Burkina Faso|Mali|Niger | 07. Apr 2020

Military intervention alone will fail to solve the Sahel crisis

In an effort to raise awareness of the necessary hygiene steps to contain the spread of Covid-19, the Camp Management team with support from the WASH team in Herat and Badghis are conducting an awareness raising campaign across displacement sites in Afghanistan.

Global | 26. Mar 2020

Coronavirus will silently hit the world's displaced hardest

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