Rehabilitation center for former IS slaves
For several months we have been planning to establish a trauma therapy center for liberated IS slaves. How far has this progressed in the meantime? We have found and rented a very suitable, newly built house. This must now be prepared for the new purpose. Some...
Small paradise in the camp: Shelter Now supports center for Yezidi orphans
Baadre Camp From Baadre City my companion Fawzi and I drive to the large Baadre Camp, where about 15,000 refugees live, all Esiden. It is hard to imagine what these many people have experienced, as they were treated worst of all by the IS henchmen. Suddenly Fawzi...
Time and time again there are amazing stories, …
...that our project beneficiaries tell. One of them is that of eight-year-old Sara: When the IS terrorists invaded Mosul (Nineveh) in 2014, Sara was just three years old. The attackers surrounded a large group of Christian women and children. First they chose the most...
Impressions from a journey
Udo and Sigi Stolte have visited Kurdistan in Northern Iraq. They experienced beautiful, but also shocking things. First the beauty: Despite the bad weather with flooding for months, the Esidic refugees in "our" camps were in good spirits. They had reason to do so: We...
Fresh fruit for Esidy Kids
We want to provide fled children of the Esidy (Yezidi) with fresh fruit from Christmas to the summer. The hardest hit ethnic group by IS terrorism is the Esids. (They are also called "Yazidi"). Shelter Now has been working for four years with about 100 families of...
Just released: Book “Zurück in Kabul ” (Back in Kabul)
The exciting return of Georg Taubmann after his hostage-taking and the reconstruction of Shelter Now development aid in Afghanistan Eberhard Mühlan with Georg Taubmann ZURÜCK IN KABUL (Back in Kabul) Only a few months after the deprivation-rich and dangerous...
Chickens and geese for IS refugees in Kurdistan
Almost 100 refugee Kurdish families receive poultry alive. This should give them more food security and thus greater independence. Great joy among the Eskid Kurdish refugees: Each family gets six chickens and as many geese, one male and five female animals each. Udo...
We have lost a friend
Terror attack in Kabul - German aid worker murdered Last Saturday evening (January 20) terrorists attacked the Kabul Hotel Intercontinental. There were dead and injured. We are shocked and affected. Brigitte W., a long-time friend of ours, was also killed in this...