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Psychosocial Resilience and Capacity Building in North-West Iraq

Since the end of large-scale military operations against ISIL in 2017, Iraq has made significant reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts: Roads have been restored, local markets reopened, public water and electricity services restored, and housing, health facilities and schools rebuilt. As of June 2022, of the six million people displaced as a result of ISIL’s June 2014 takeover of much…

Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being for All Through a Professional and Accessible Digital Platform

This project aimed to support disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, especially migrants and refugees, through low-threshold access to VBC and providing individual counseling as well as group sessions. We established a multicultural team of highly professional counselors qualified in our VBC method who used their Arabic, Dari, English, Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Italian and Portuguese mother tongues…

Psychosocial Skills for Refugees Living in LAF Shelters

Since 2018, our experienced project team has been regularly visiting all of the Berlin refugee shelters administered by LAF in Berlin on a rotating basis to provide on-site psychosocial counseling and various group services. The project is an important and effective addition to the work of the counselors at the…

Face-to-face Empowerment – Establishing a Psychosocial Counseling Center For and With People With a Flight/Migration History in Berlin

The project enabled us to establish our IPSO Care Center Berlin as an open and friendly place that provides psychosocial support for migrants and refugees. Thanks to the support from the SKala initiative, IPSO’s counseling services were made accessible to everyone in Berlin and the surrounding areas and in their mother tongues. Nationwide awareness of Ipso-care as an online counseling…

“Kolba-e Ma” – Social Hubs for Afghan Returnees in Kabul and Nangahar Provinces

The Afghan society has experienced large-scale population movements inside and outside the country for several decades. The project is focused on supporting the reintegration of returnees which is a big challenge for both, returnees as well as host communities, not only in social-cultural terms but also with regard to their integration into local labour markets in Kabul and Nangarhar.

Psychosocial Support for IDPs and Returnees in Balkh, Kabul and Nangarhar

Statistics from the International Organization for Migration show that between 2012 and 2019 more than 3 million Afghans returned to Afghanistan from neighbouring and other foreign countries. More than 4 million people were displaced internally during the same period. Many of them lived in and are still living in makeshift camps that are notorious for their cramped living conditions and lack of…