On 24 April, the Handicap International team in Lebanon restored two plots of cleared land to villagers from Toula, in the district of Batroun as part of a demining project launched 20 months earlier.
New life. It produces beautiful and moving images. Layla Aerts, Bieke Depoorter and Katrijn Van Giel show how a mom-to-be experiences pregnancy and the birth of her child and how she sees her child grow, with ups and downs…..Joy, love, relief, happiness…wherever in the world, all brand new moms feel the same.
The Phone House, leader in the sales of products and services in the field of telecommunications, is supporting Handicap International throughout 2012 with special initiatives in its shops. One of these initiatives will take place throughout the month of May.
Mohamed is a 13 year old boy from Benghazi. He has one brother and three sisters. On Monday the 21st of March 2011, Mohamed was playing football with his friend in front of his apartment block, when he saw a shiny golden metal object next to a tree nearby. On his way up to his family’s apartment, Mohamed started hitting it against the wall. The object was a submunition. It exploded and...
Catherine Gillet, director of the East Timor programme, tells us more about the launch of actions in this country without responsive services.
Nzuzi cannot walk. But her parents still decide to send her to school. She goes on to become a lawyer and the family’s main breadwinner. A symbol of hope? Of course. But it’s also a success story the managers of Kinshasa’s inclusive education project would like to see repeated more often. Because in reality Nzuzi is the heroine of a comic strip from the DRC,a fictional character...
Alain was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After managing Handicap International’s inclusive education project for nearly three years, from 2008 to 2011, Alain now works as an operational project coordinator in the DRC. Here, he recalls his experiences and talks about the organisation’s work in aid of children with disabilities.
Explosive remnants of war continue to hurt or kill Libyan civilians, six months after the fall of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. A boy of thirteen years died, last week, following the explosion of unexploded ordnance, in Zlitan, a coastal town located about fifty kilometers from Misrata. In the region, 80% of recorded casualties were under 23 years. Children and adolescents are the most...
Lend your Leg
On the 4th of April, the Tajik Mine Action Centre (TMAC) in partnership with national NGO’s and TCBL (Tajik center to Ban Landmine and Cluster Munitions) organised the celebration of the International Mine Action Day to raise awareness of the hazard caused by landmines and Cluster munitions in the country. In close collaboration with the United Nation Development Program...
Pauline Lizion arrived in Ivory Coast in October 2011 to join Handicap International’s teams in Toulepleu, a region particularly badly hit by fighting. “Most of the houses had been destroyed and pillaged, then often set on fire. I sometimes felt I’d arrived in a ghost village,” she explains. During her five-month mission, Pauline managed the distribution of resettlement...
