Dagbok fra den blodige krigen

JEMEN | De første dagene av mars 2015 var en gledens tid. Den sørlige havnebyen Aden var full av strålende bryllupsfester, forteller Malka (26) i dagboken sin. Men den 15.mars smalt det.

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Seksten år og på flukt alene fra IS til Norge

I 2013 flyktet den da 16-årige Mosab fra IS i Syria. Han reiste alene til Norge. I dag bor han i Oslo. Han snakker norsk, går på skole, har jobb – én lønnet og én som frivillig – og han har lært seg å spille piano. Men om natten drømmer han at de døde kommer til ham fra krigen.

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Somalia | 11. apr 2019

137.000 somaliere tvunget på flukt hittil i år

Konflikt og tørke tvinger et økende antall familier på flukt i Somalia.

Khitam, a 54-year-old woman from Syria, lives in one of the biggest refugee settlements in Lebanon, together with more than 1,500 refugees. She is one of seven refugee women cooking meals that are distributed to the refugees living in the settlement.

"I work to support myself. My situation is dire and I don’t have anyone else who can provide for me," says Khitam.

Thanks to the generosity of our private sponsors, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) was able to provide funding to a local Lebanese organisation, Union of Relief and Development Associations (URDA), that set up a kitchen in a refugee settlement in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. URDA employs refugees to cook the food and distribute the meals to thousands of refugees living in tented settlements.

Fled from Syria six years ago

Six years ago, Khitam fled from Homs in Syria to Lebanon with her husband and children. Her husband died three years later, leaving her alone.

"My children have families and are barely able to feed their own children. I could never ask them to provide for me as well," she says.

She is happy to be a part of the cooking group in the camp.

"Cooking food for other refugees makes me happy and the salary makes me able to support myself. It’s heavy work – we do everything from cutting chicken and boiling rice, to cleaning and preparing food boxes for over 1,000 people."

Over 1,500 meals for 300 refugee families

In March 2019, NRC supported the preparation of over 1,500 meals for 300 refugee families, the majority of whom were evacuated from their homes after the winter storms. Some of them have still not been able to return to their homes as their tents are being rehabilitated.

Khitam and the other women receive a lot of positive feedback from people saying they’re enjoying their food.

Through the cooking, the women come together and are able to keep their mind off their current lives as refugees.

"Knowing I contribute to put food on the table for other refugee families and to feed their children makes it worth all the hard efforts I put into my cooking,” says Khitam.

Credit: Racha El Daoi/NRC

Libanon | 10. apr 2019

Libanon: Lager mat til flere tusen flyktninger rammet av storm

– Å vite at jeg bidrar til å gi andre flyktninger mat på bordet og sørger for at barna får mat, gjør det verdt å legge ned mye arbeid i matlagingen, sier syriske Khitam. Sammen med Flyktninghjelpen sørger hun for mat til 300 familier som ble rammet av vinterstormene i Libanon.

Jemen | 08. apr 2019

Dødelig angrep på Jemens hovedstad Sana

Et bombeangrep på Jemens hovedstad Sana i går tok livet av minst fem skolebarn.

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Vi beskytter flyktninger i verdens farligste krigs- og konfliktområder

The entry/exit control point “Maiorsk” is one of four vehicle and pedestrian crossing points in Donetsk region. It is located about 20 km from the non-government controlled Horlivka town. The grey zone between the Ukrainian checkpoint and self-proclaimed “DPR” is the widest among all of the EECPs. After the ECCP was opened in early 2015 there was no bus connection in this corridor, people had to walk nearly 2-3 kilometres to take another bus. The situation changed in 2016, when it was agreed to launch bus shuttles. Over the period of its existence, the EECP has had many temporary closures due to escalation of the hostilities. Every day at least 7,000 people, mostly elderly, cross this entry-exit point to get their pension and social payments, visit their friends and relatives, buy essential goods. While crossing the contact line, concerned civilians are often exposed to serious security and safety risks such as minefields along the roads, periodic shelling and queuing at the checkpoints in harsh weather conditions for long hours.

50-year old ski-instructor Oksana is one of many people waiting for hours to cross the entry-exit point.

“I left Alchevsk town on the non-government controlled area (92 km away) at 07:00 in the morning. It is afternoon, and I have not passed yet. There were times we were waiting for several days to cross, because of military hostilities. I currently live in government controlled Kharkiv with my husband. Comparing with other internally displaced people it is easier for me to adapt to new city, because I have my own apartment and job there. I am not planning to come back to my hometown, because there is no job for me there. Many people left, mostly elderly remained in the town”, - says Oksana.

In this picture Oksana talking to NRC communication officer Anastasiia Karpilianska

Photo: Ingebjørg Kårstad/NRC

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Forsvarer konfliktrammedes rettigheter i Øst-Ukraina

Iryna is 10 years old, and Liliia’s eldest daughter. She still remembers the night their house was hit. Iryna and her sibling all suffer from post-traumatic stress. It is hard to concentrate at school and she has nightmares and anxiety. “The main concern for me now is that the active phase of the war does not break out again. I am afraid that my house will be destroyed again. After all, we hear the sounds of shots every night,”says her mother Liliia.

Background story:
Liliia Poturoieva is 39. She has experienced terrible events that completely changed the life of herself and her large family and left an indelible mark on everyone's soul. She lives in the frontline village of Verkhnia Vilkhova in Stanytsia Luhanska district, Luhansk region.

Liliia has six children. The oldest is Oleksandr. He is 20. He lives separately from his parents and earns his own living. Ihor is 12. He is a shy and calm schoolboy, always ready to help parents with the housework. Her eldest daughter Iryna is 10. She is a schoolgirl and mother's main housekeeper. She cooks and looks after younger children. Yana is 7. She is a first-grade pupil. She is a cheerful, active and very energetic girl. The children are forced to go to school in a neighboring village 5 kilometers away, since there is simply no school in their village.

Her youngest son Illia,5, and daughter Aryna, 2, are always staying at home with their mother. The family cannot afford a kindergarten for children. Now Liliia is pregnant again. This will be the seventh child in the family. Her husband Viktor helps her to cope with all of them.

Before the conflict, the whole big family lived in a small house with two rooms. There was no work. The main income was child allowances and random earnings from the cows, goats, rabbits and poultry.

“There was no work in the village. There was no opportunity to travel to other settlements to work. We tried to make money by selling milk”.

In February 2015, at midnight, heavy shelling began. Viktor, Liliia's husband, went out into the yard to see the direction of the shots. Suddenly a shell fell near their yard, and the second shell landed 7 meters away from Viktor, who was standing on the house porch. Viktor got a serious shell shock and lost his hearing for a while.
The blast wave knocked out all the windows in the house. Under one of the windows there was a child's bed, where Liliia’s youngest son slept. That night Liliia saved the life of her son with her son.

“When the blast hit, I covered my baby with my own body, and the glass from the broken window hit me in the back”.

The consequences of that shelling are still noticeable. Liliia has problems with her speech. She is stuttering. She is not the only one.

“The children experience anxiety, concentration problems, fears and, as a result, urinary incontinence”.

The house was seriously damaged in the blast. All the windows were broken, the front walls were destroyed and the roof and the foundation were seriously damaged. However, Liliia and her family did not dare to leave because it was too risky to leave the house unattended. They tried to repair the house on their own. They covered the broken windows with plastic wrap. They even had to spend their nights in the basement because it was the warmest and the safest place in their household.There was no help from the local authorities.

“At first I didn’t want to ask for help. I did not believe that anyone would really help us. My husband advised me to go to the NRC office and find out about the Heavy repair project, because he heard that NRC had already helped someone in the village”.

Now the house is in the process of restoration. There is a new slate on the roof. Renovation works on the walls have been completed. Three small rooms for the children have been completed. New windows have been installed and internal works are being carried out now.

“The main thing for me now is that the active phase of the war does not break out again. I am afraid that my house will be destroyed again. After all, we hear the sounds of shots every night”, Liliia says.

Photo: Ingebjørg Kårstad/Norwegian Refugee Council

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Seksten år og på flukt alene fra IS til Norge

I 2013 flyktet den da 16-årige Mosab fra IS i Syria. Han reiste alene til Norge. I dag bor han i Oslo. Han snakker norsk, går på skole, har jobb – én lønnet og én som frivillig – og han har lært seg å spille piano. Men om natten drømmer han at de døde kommer til ham fra krigen.

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Marlon's journey

Bli med Skam-skuespiller Marlon Langeland og Flyktninghjelpen til Midtøsten, Afrika og Sør-Amerika. I Instagram-serien skal han møte ungdom på flukt fra noen av verdens største humanitære kriser og konflikter.

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Flyktningregnskapet

Fremmedfrykt og høyreekstremisme øker. Derfor må vi ha diskusjoner basert på hva som faktisk skjer og ikke det vi tror skjer. I Flyktningregnskapet gir vi deg tall og trender så du har oppdatert informasjon om mennesker på flukt.

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Her kan du lese historier fra noen av dem som har fått hjelp gjennom vårt arbeid i noen av verdens verste konfliktområder.

Libanon | 10. apr 2019

Libanon: Lager mat til flere tusen flyktninger rammet av storm

– Å vite at jeg bidrar til å gi andre flyktninger mat på bordet og sørger for at barna får mat, gjør det verdt å legge ned mye arbeid i matlagingen, sier syriske Khitam. Sammen med Flyktninghjelpen sørger hun for mat til 300 familier som ble rammet av vinterstormene i Libanon.

NRC's team is on the ground responding to the impact of storm Norma that hit Lebanon this winter. The field staff are distributing hygiene kits that include dshwashing liquid, laundary powder, bleach, toilet brush, sanitary pads, soap, bathing soap, hair shampoo, tooth paste, and tooth brush, that can help refugees cope with the harsh winter conditions.

Photo: Nadine Malli/NRC

Libanon | 18. jan 2019

Ekstremværet i Libanon: Slik har vi hjulpet 8.700 flyktninger

Flyktninghjelpen har så langt hjulpet 8.700 syriske flyktninger i Libanoen etter at stormene «Norma» og «Miriam» førte til enorme skader.

Global | 26. des 2018

«Vi er i ferd med å legge nok et kriseår bak oss, men givergleden gir oss håp».

Generalsekretær Jan Egeland får ofte spørsmålet om han fortsatt er optimist etter å ha besøkt en rekke av de landene som er hardest rammet av krig og krise.

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