NEAR’s Newsletter – August 2025
NEAR’s Newsletter – August 2025: English Version Nouvelles de NEAR – Août 2025: Traduction en français Noticias de NEAR – Agosto 2025: Traducción al español Dear Members, Partners, Friends and…
Category: Crisis Response
A force for change
by Shaikh Maaz Tanveer, Head of Communication & Natural Resource Management at HANDS Pakistan These are two stories about empowerment and determination and how women are powerful change agents in the…
Building resilience through participation
We spoke to Abdissa Bekele, Programme Manager for Afro Ethiopian Integrated Development Association about building community resilience through community participation. “AEID was established in December 2003, so as you can see, we…
Communities lead us
We spoke with Guyo Denge, Executive Director of Community Initiatives Facilitation and Assistance (CIFA – Ethiopia) on how they build resilience by tapping into community knowledge and history. “We were…
Building hope for the future
We sat down with Malek Alwadi from Binaa for Development to learn about their education infrastructure project with the Solidarity Fund. “Binaa is an engineers’ organisation so most of our staff are engineers.We work mainly in the shelter and WASH clusters on infrastructure.Both inside and outside cities,…
Solidarity in Action
The recent launch of the Solidarity Fund, coordinated by Syrian Networks League and NEAR, is already translating into action in the field for Fund grantee ELAF RD. We spoke to programme…
Creating a safe space for children
The psychosocial impacts of the earthquakes in Syria and Türkiye are severe as will continue to make themselves felt and survivors process their shock and loss.The effects on children, many…
NEPAL: Earthquake Resilient Infrastructure for Safer Lives.
By Nisha Shrestha Director, Strategic Planning National Society for Earthquake Technology – Nepal (NSET) Each year, Nepal observes National Earthquake Safety Day on January 15th or 16th (Magh 2 in the Nepali calendar) in commemoration of…
AFGHANISTAN: the devastating effects of the ban on women NGO workers
The ban on women NGO workers in Afghanistan has had devastating effects and these will only worsen in the coming months, as affected people face a bitter winter, food shortages…
Somalia emergency response: “You get emotional when you see their situation.”
Save Somali Women and Children (SSWC) project providing water trucking to IDP communities in Adaado district in drought ravaged Adaado district, Somalia.