Sudanese youth and refugee volunteers team up to help people fleeing Khartoum
Sudanese youth and refugee volunteers team up to help people fleeing Khartoum
Abdelraheem Osman talks to other volunteers outside Bandar primary school in Wad Madani, which hosts families displaced by the conflict in Sudan.
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![A woman stands in front of a wall decorated with flowers.](/us/sites/en-us/files/RF1288375_2.jpg "Portugal. Sediqa Danish Nawrozi, a 29-year-old Afghan refugee, at her work place. Sediqa works as an intercultural mediator, helping fellow Afghans living in , a small city in rural eastern Portugal. Sediqa is part of a unique project called “Fundão Medeia,” which created by the city council to provide a much-needed link between newly arrived residents and local authorities. The team of intercultural mediators help new residents hailing from Brazil, African countries, South Asia, Afghanistan and beyond navigate their daily lives and access education and health care, as well as jobs. Sediqa had years of experience working in NGOs devoted to gender equality and human rights back home in Afghanistan before she was forced to flee after the Taliban takeover in 2021. She now works with fellow Afghans settling in the eastern Portuguese city of Fundão, as an intercultural mediator with "Fundão MEDEIA," an innovative integration project that receives financing from the European Union.")
Earthquake in Afghanistan
Families are struggling to survive after a devastating earthquake flattened entire villages in western Afghanistan.
Over one thousand people have died. Thousands more have lost their homes and livelihoods – and the number of people is expected to rise even further.
UNHCR is on the ground responding to rising humanitarian needs.
This latest disaster comes on top of years of conflict, drought, and economic crisis. As the winter season approaches, your support is vital.
Afghanistan. Herat earthquake.
could provide family tents to two displaced Afghan families
could provide a package of essential relief supplies, including blankets, a bucket, a cooking set and gas cylinder, to three Afghan families displaced by the earthquake
could provide a dignity kit including soap, sanitary napkins and underwear to three Afghan families affected by the recent earthquake
UNHCR Annual Global Trends Report
DATA AND STATISTICS
UNHCR annual Global Trends report 2022
UNHCR's Global Trends report presents key statistical trends and the latest numbers of refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced and stateless persons.
If ongoing conflicts remain unresolved and the risks of new ones erupting are not reined in, one aspect that will define the twenty-first century will be the continuously growing numbers of people forced to flee and the increasingly dire options available to them.