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EMERGENCY Belgium is looking for new volunteers to help out organising activities to raise funds for victims of war and poverty (for more info please visit our website www.emergencybe.org)!

Do you have some free time or are you willing to find some time to be part of our project? We need people to participate to our events, to manage our booth, to prepare something to cook, to give a hand with our communication activities, to attend our meetings and share new ideas, and many... many other tasks!

If you're interested, please get in touch by sending a PM or send us an email to info@emergencybe.org

Looking forward to meeting you!

EMERGENCY Belgium volunteers' group

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Thanks a million to our four brave runners, who ran the 20K yesterday and helped us rise funds for our projects! EMERGENCY couldn't survive without wonderful people like them! Thanks again and again to Jonathan, Marleena, Gabriela and Arne. Thanks to Marco as well, even if he couldn't run - recover soon!

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Hi guys! We're still looking for runners for the 20K! If you're interested, please send us a message with your email address and we will contact you :)

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- AFGHANISTAN: NEW YEAR, SAME OLD WAR -

The death toll of this morning’s suicide bombing in Kabul amounts to at least 26, according to the Afghan Ministry of the Interior.

Yesterday, on 20 March, was ‘Nowruz’, the Persian New Year; today, near the Sakhi Shrine, in the western part of the Afghan capital, hundreds of people had gathered to celebrate. The explosion occurred near the University.

13 victims were taken to EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Kabul: 10 were admitted, 3 had already passed away.

“It may be New Year’s in Afghanistan, but it’s a day like any other. Another bombing, casualties and injuries. It’s further proof of what we’ve been saying for years: this country is at war and is probably one of the most dangerous in the world. The European Union should think twice about sending back people who tried to escape from this hell”, stated Gino Strada from Kabul.

‘Nowruz’ means ‘new day’ in Farsi, and indicates a new beginning, a new life. But the war in Afghanistan doesn’t leave any room for hope or optimism. The situation in the country is getting worse every month, and Kabul has become the most dangerous district.

The fact that the situation is getting worse was confirmed by institutional sources. The latest report issued by UNAMA, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, documented 10,453 civilian victims in 2017. Victims of suicide bombings, which amount to 22% of the total number, are on the rise.

This war continues to claim an unacceptable number of human lives.

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- IRAQ -

Daham is from Mosul and, before he was injured during the war, was a radiologist in his city’s state hospital. Today, he is a patient at our Centre for Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.... At the beginning of 2017, Daham lost his right leg in an ISIS bomb explosion that took place during a government-planned offensive which intended to recapture the city. Now, Daham uses a prosthesis that he is learning to use as part of the rehabilitation course.

Now, he can't wait to finish his rehabilitation and go back to doing his job and continuing to help his people, who have been devastated by so many years of war.