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Tragic earthquakes occurred in southern Turkey. The epicenter is located near the city of Gaziantep, with a population of 2 million, where the scale of destruction is enormous. The cataclysm also affected Syria to a large extent. The PCPM Foundation has launched a fundraising action at pcpm.org.pl/pomoc to help the victims. The PCPM team is already on site.
Medics from PCPM practice evacuation of patients using a helicopter in difficult winter conditions. Members of the Poland Emergency Medical Team PCPM, the first in Poland and the only WHO-certified rapid response group for natural disasters and humanitarian crises, take part in winter maneuvers co-financed by the European Union.
Medycy z PCPM ćwiczą ewakuacje pacjentów z użyciem śmigłowca w trudnych zimowych warunkach. Członkowie Medycznego Zespołu Ratunkowego PCPM, pierwszej w Polsce i jedynej certyfikowanej przez WHO, grupy szybkiego reagowania na katastrofy naturalne i kryzysy humanitarne, biorą udział w zimowych manewrach współfinansowanych przez Unię Europejską [WIDEO].
Achol, Awang, Mary, Lam, Abuk, James. Of the six children born in South Sudan, four are currently suffering from hunger. This is the fate of as many as 1.4 million children in this country who are under the age of five.
The report summarizes three rounds of surveys conducted among the beneficiaries of Targeted Cash Assistance Program through which PCPM - in partnership with Care International in Poland, HelpAge, International Rescue Committee and the Taiwan Government - supported most vulnerable Ukrainian refugees in Poland during 2022.
"After the Russian occupation, not a stone was left on a stone, everything was destroyed. I regret that I returned home” – tells us Serhiy during one of his meetings with PCPM Foundation staff. "To this day our children are afraid of loud noises, even of thunderstorms" – adds Hanna. Both were forced to leave their homes and now, as refugees, they tell us about the war. Meet the people the PCPM Foundation is helping in Ukraine.
Nearly 750,000 people from Ukraine are employed and insured, the Polish Social Insurance Institution (Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych) indicated after the first 9 months since the war broke out. The PCPM Foundation has helped to employ more than 1,200 refugees in Poland and more than 500 in Ukraine during that time.
The Polish Center for International Aid (PCPM) is a non-governmental organization. Our mission is to provide humanitarian, development and medical relief assistance throughout the world, while maintaining the basic principles of humanitarianism, impartiality, neutrality and independence. What we did in 2022? Wojtek Wilk, Ph. D. in short video.