In acute emergency situations, triggered by natural disasters, wars or armed conflicts, Terre of the Hommes helps children and their families. Support us in our acute disaster relief and long -term reconstruction.
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Natural disasters, wars or armed conflicts trigger acute emergency situations. Terre des Hommes helps children and their families in a network with local partner organizations: Together we ensure that they are needs -based, quick help, which is based on the needs of children and adolescents. To ensure survival and the dignity of those affected are the primary principle of our joint work with the partner organizations.
The work of the humanitarian aid Terre des Hommes follows the vision of the writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who saw the symbol of the loss of human beings in the sight of war injuries and killed children and to which he opposed the idea of a "terre des Hommes", a earth of humanity that needs as many allies as possible.
Integrated approach and lobbying
An important instrument with the humanities is helped by Terre des Hommes, an active help of helping help through children and adolescents themselves . Especially in war situations and armed conflicts that result in flight and displacement and starting long -lasting spirals of violence, comprehensive peace work is a central component. This is the only way to successfully make a future fresh start. This so -called "Triple Nexus" refers to the integrated approach that combines humanitarian aid, development cooperation and peace promotion. The aim is to react more effectively to complex crises and promote sustainable solutions by coordinating these three areas. For this purpose, Terre des Hommes founded the Global Initiative CAAC - Children Associated to Armed Conflicts (children in armed conflicts) as part of humanitarian aid (SU).
The humanitarian aid of Terre des Hommes is accompanied by political lobbying in order to document the concrete experiences from our work and to make usable for political decision -makers within the meaning of child rights.
The program »Children in Armed Conflicts-Caac (Children Affected by Armed Conflict)« In the humanitarian aid
The Humanitarian Aid of Terre des Hommes Germany focuses on children and adolescents in armed conflicts. Many of them not only suffer from the war in their country - they are recruited, expelled, expelled, sexually exploited or lose friends and family - but often also from natural disasters, such as the CHIDO in Mozambik or the severe earthquake in Myanmar.
The CAAC program also provides funds for acute emergency aid (food, medication, clothing, tents, psychological help), especially funds available for projects with a focus on participation: children and adolescents, but also parents and neighbors are included in the planning of emergency aid and pension projects. You get training in communities and schools so that you can stand up for children's rights and report what happens to children and adolescents in the armed conflict on site and how you can protect them-at the local level in your villages and towns, but also at national and international level (e.g. in a CAAC project in Myanmar). This is often completely unknown because journalists and helpers have no access from the outside.
In other training courses, they learn how to solve conflicts in the family, at school or in the village without violence or how they can help their community in disaster prevention (e.g. in CAAC projects in Mozambique, South Sudan, Colombia and the Northeast India). They then pass on this knowledge to people in their communities. In this way, children and adolescents are strengthened and protected against violence and can work and become active in their communities for peace, human rights and locally adapted help.
Localization in humanitarian aid
Localization in humanitarian aid aims to strengthen local partners and actors and to give them the booklet of action. The familiarity with your own environment makes it possible to orientate help with great accuracy on the needs and to waste neither money nor goods. It also means better knowledge of political and social circumstances and thus a lesser risk that aids fall into the wrong hands, an improper distribution takes place or unsuitable goods and food are distributed.
However, greater risks must be considered and secured for the local partnerships of humanitarian aid. Compliance with the core principles of humanitarian aid - humanity, neutrality and impartiality - means, for example, in armed conflicts for employees of local partners, great personal ventures and for the organizations the risk of political and military capability. This is especially true where the scope for action is massively restricted (Shrinking Spaces) and the independent work of the organizations is to be brought to a standstill by exaggerated bureaucratic hurdles and criminalization. Women's organizations that have to make the special needs of women and girls visible in humanitarian contexts first, in order to demand the basic care and property rights, also take serious risks personally.
High quality standards to the partners
Humanitarian aid works where public care and administrative structures are no longer or only inadequate and at the same time moved large quantities of goods and funds to the disaster and war areas by mostly international organizations. Therefore, the local partners in particular have to meet high quality standards in coordination and administration in order to ensure effective, efficient and sustainable use of the funds and to maintain any gate of corruption and abuse.
Terre des Hommes therefore occurs together with his partners for better integration and financial resources for local actors. Terre des Hommes focuses on the perception and consideration of children and adolescents as actors in humanitarian aid. Although children and adolescents make up more than a third of the recipients of aid from humanitarian aid and many of them grow up under conditions long, they are hardly visible and heard in the machine of humanitarian aid. Above all, young people, as the Corona crisis showed, are strong partners when it comes to quick organization and coordination and precise knowledge of potential for danger.
Terre des Hommes therefore expressly includes children and adolescents in the structure and implementation of their measures for disaster and crisis management. In the long term, we also want to contribute to the establishment of a local structure to the qualified, child -oriented humanitarian aid and ensure that the help arrives where it is most urgently needed.
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Birgit Dittrich
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