refugees

• Rehabilitating housing in Iraq to strengthen the resilience of displaced persons in the Latifiyah camp

  Published on 29 April 2024  |  News
  In Iraq, residents of informal displaced persons sites are experiencing the consequences of climate change and are facing challenges in accessing essential services. In this context, Première Urgence Internationale is intervening to rehabilitate individual homes, restore community infrastructure, and meet the water, hygiene, and sanitation needs of displaced persons—paying particular attention to households headed by women due to their increased vulnerabilities.

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• SUDAN: Priority to the people

  Published on 27 April 2023  |  Press
  After relocating to safety, Première Urgence Internationale teams in Sudan are redeploying their humanitarian aid efforts to people affected by the conflict that has been tearing the country apart for over 10 days.

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• An emergency health response for Cameroonian refugees in Chad

  Published on 25 August 2022  |  News
  For several months, Chad has become a refuge for Cameroonian people fleeing inter-community conflicts on its territory, with a considerable impact on the host populations. The Première Urgence Internationale teams have mobilized in the west of the country to deal with this new cross-border crisis

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• Lebanon: Rehabilitation of insalubrious housing for vulnerable families

  Published on 25 February 2021  |  News
  In 2020, multiple factors have impacted the NGO’s activities in Lebanon: COVID-19, socio-economic and political crisis, explosions of Beirut’s port ... In spite of everything, the teams stayed the course and achieved their objectives.

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• RETROSPECTIVE: OUR YEAR 2020 IN 7 STRIKING EVENTS

  Published on 27 January 2021  |  News
  COVID-19 prevention, the Beirut blast, Venezuelan refugees in Colombia, vaccinations in the DRC, healthcare in Ukraine and Yemen but also 40 years’ presence in Afghanistan… So many striking events that shaped this peculiar year which, however, did not succeed in weakening the engagement of Première Urgence Internationale’s teams.

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• Meeting with Alba Pereira, Colombo-Venezuelan, Director of the “Entre 2 Tierras” Foundation, Bucaramanga, Santander

  Published on 30 November 2020  |  News
  I arrived on February 14th 2004 (Valentine’s Day), fleeing persecution for openly expressing my opposition...

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• Lebanon: “It is important to stick to basic healthcare, apart from COVID-19”

  Published on 21 October 2020  |  News
  The current pandemic must not overshadow other health emergencies and sanitarian crises faced by vulnerable people. In Lebanon, Première Urgence Internationale takes great care of providing constant support to vulnerable populations and facilitating them the access to basic services, despite the stress caused by COVID-19 pandemic.

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• Colombia: “As purchasing manager, I deliver meals to migrants on the road”

  Published on 25 September 2020  |  News
  Tania Rodríguez, a Colombian repatriate, is head of the service point in Curití, in Santander, the main road between Bucaramanga and Bogotá and practically the only support point for "caminantes" arriving from Venezuela.

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• In Bardarash camp, Premiere Urgence Internationale improved the quality of mental health services

  Published on 21 August 2020  |  News
  Since December 2019, Première Urgence Internationale managed for nine months the provision of primary free health care services in the reopened camp of Bardarash, Kurdistan region of Iraq. The teams ensured individual mental health follow-up and counselling, as well as training of Iraqi doctors to improve the services provided inside the camp.

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• Iraq: Alongside families living in camps, to keep them safe from COVID-19

  Published on 7 May 2020  |  News
  In Iraq and Kurdistan, Première Urgence Internationale is an important camp health actor, managing primary healthcare centres in three camps hosting refugees and internally displaced people. To continue responding to the needs of these vulnerable populations in these times of pandemic, the mission reorganised its functioning, putting in place quarantine areas and conducting awareness raising sessions.

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