Causes
The causes we care about
Common mental health disorders, vaccine- preventable disease, skin conditions, tuberculosis, sexual and physical violence.
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Dental Care
Many healthcare practitioners and policymakers are unaware of the importance of oral health for refugees and asylum-seekers. Many refugees, especially children, have not had access to dental care for many years, have never had tooth-brushing education, and have suffered fractured teeth, tooth decay and dental abscesses. In many host countries, dental care may be relatively expensive and difficult to access, even for people who are not refugees.
Additional concerns for refugees include difficulty navigating the dental system, language barriers, and limited finances to access care.
Poor oral health can negatively affect quality of life, cause pain disrupting sleep and the ability to learn at school, and work. It is also now thought to increase the risk of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
While oral health for refugee claimants has been consistently noted as an area of concern, there is little literature on the topic.
Action
- We will provide every refugee with dental kits and educate them on dental hygiene. We will invite 10 dentists from Germany to run bi-yearly dental checks on all registered refugees in person pro bono.
- Support here the purchase of dental kits
Mental Health
- Not all wounds are visible and the poor mental health of the refugees is another reason the madness of the situation here. But mental health support for refugees can be near non-existent.
- The process of leaving one’s home country and adapting to a different environment, culture and life situation is often stressful. Many refugees can suffer from mental disorders, although prevalence is variable across studies and population groups. Higher prevalence of mental disorders in long-term refugees is associated with lack of social integration and specifically with unemployment.
- The experience of migration can be complex and stressful, related to events before departure, during travel and transit, and after arrival. Consequently, refugees can suffer from mental disorders, although prevalence is highly variable across studies and population groups. We need to address the prevalence of some disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depressive and anxiety disorders. Based on best-available evidence regarding risk factors and areas for intervention, eight key priority action areas are identified for consideration by policymakers regarding the mental health of refugees and migrants. While different countries may be more or less able to adapt depending on their baseline capacity, areas and models for intervention to promote mental health and provide good mental health care to refugee and migrant groups include social integration, facilitating access to care, fostering engagement with care and treating patients with manifest disorders.
Action
We aim to provide refugees in Morocco with
- Practical skills for supporting children who have experienced trauma
- Supporting the education and learning of asylum seeking and immigrant children
- Therapy to address the burden of their journey and the integration in a new country, different than they could possibly imagine
- We are aiming to offer a professional one day mental health course. The training will be free for all participants and will focus on the mental health needs of asylum seeking and immigrant children. The course will cover the following topics
- Introduction to mental health
- Risk factors to mental health pre, during and post migration
- Trauma and adverse childhood experiences
- Practical tools to build resilience
- Playing games
- By supporting this cause , you’ll ensure young refugees in Morocco facing trauma can have life-changing access to mental health counselors to learn healthy coping skills that can benefit them through their lifetime.
Nutrition
- We know it’s just fruit and veg. But for thousands of refugees stuck in Morocco, it’s also a small but important step in restoring independence and making life feel a little more normal.
- Across refugees communities in Morocco , tasty, nutritious food is hard to come by. Eating this low-quality, unfamiliar food is demoralising. But more than this, it’s a hindrance to health, especially in the development of babies and children.
- We want to make sure that refugees have access to healthy and fresh food following a healthy diet.
Action
We will provide children and mothers with prepared meals with the highest standards of hygiene and quality ingredients that meet the nutritional requirements of growing children.
- Support HERE the purchase of quality ingredients and we will make sure that the meals will be made by caring local Moroccan mothers.
Sexual Protection and Menstruation
- Migration has a complex effect on health, and women refugees face health problems that are exacerbated by their inferior social status as well as by their unique biological characteristics.
- Because of the complexities of their realities related to gender, social and economic status, and pre-migration and resettlement experiences, women refugees need a multiplicity of health interventions. The identification of the major physical and psychological health issues with consideration of gender issues and pre-migration and resettlement experiences, represents a more adequate basis for the assessment and management of the health care of women refugees.
- Their social integration in new settings may be equally limited by their initial lack of education and occupational experience. The higher vulnerability of women to sexual abuse and violence also places them at risk of STDs, including HIV, and a range of post-traumatic stress disorders associated with sexual violence.
- Their reproductive health needs often go unnoticed and unprotected even in well organized refugee and migrant situations, and the insensitivity of health staff to the needs of women is often more pronounced in refugee and migrant contexts than it is in general. Health monitoring of women in all migration-related situations has to be given greater priority.
- Women in particular are constantly exposed to “Sexually transmitted infections” through rape or no commited relationships with no access to sexual protection, leaving them pregnant and having more children or at risk of sexual diseases while fleeing their home countries on the journe wiithout any access to health protection.
- Pre- and post-resettlement experiences of forced migration can have profound effects on women’s reproductive health as refugee women are more likely to experience delays in accessing health services and face disparities in reproductive health outcomes.
- Women do not have access to health products, simple as menstruation products, pregnancy test and pregnancy prevention medication and tools.
Action
We will make sure that women have access to gynecologists and nurses to improve their sexual health and provide them with education on sexual prevention illnesses and medication, and tools to keep their sexual health protected.
- Support here to protect women from sexual illnesses and provide them with sexual health kits, i.e menstruations pads and the pill,
Vaccinations
- In the midst of COVID 19, when the world comes together to realize the importance of vaccines, it is important to not oversee the access to basic vaccinations for the less fortunate in Africa in saving lives — it is so important.
- We believe that the path out of poverty begins when the generation can access quality healthcare and when the spread of diseases can be prevented with the simple solution of providing basic vaccinations to those who need it the most. Vaccines are amongst the best ways to fight disease and have prevented deadly diseases across the globe from smallpox and polio, to Ebola and cholera. Now, they might be our best chance at fighting COVID-19 too. We need to ensure that refugees and refugees who leave their homes and live constantly on a journey to have access to basic vaccinations, such as Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine (DTaP), Hepatitis A vaccine (HepA), Hepatitis B vaccine (HepB), etc. This basic principle is at the very heart of our health focused NGO — we’re fighting to make sure that when it comes to COVID-19 and other deadly diseases, those in extreme poverty are never left behind.
Action
We will provide refugees with access to clinics where they will be able to receive life-changing vaccines
- Support here the delivery of vaccinations from Europe