Udo and Sigi Stolte paid a visit to Kurdistan in North Iraq. They experienced both pleasant and shocking encounters.

First the pleasant encounters: Despite months of bad weather with flooding the Yazidi refugees in
“our” camps were in good spirits. The reason: We have b...

We want to supply Yezidy refugee kids with fresh fruit - starting this Christmas and continuing until next summer

The people group most affected by the IS terror are the Yezidis.

Shelter Now has been working with about 100 families for four years and could assist them in...

Udo Stolte has just returned from Afghanistan and writes:

“Shelter Now is working at three sites in Afghanistan: Kabul, Faizabad and Herat, I was able to visit all three. First Faizabad: often it’s simply not possible to travel overland because of the dangerous security...

Our "Donate a Well" initiative has now provided clean drinking water to over 30,000 people

We have now completed the 150th well in Afghanistan funded by private donors. Since 2012, families, schools, kindergartens and churches have raised at least 950 euros per well so...

Close to 100 Kurdish families received domestic poultry. In this way, they gain food security and thus an increase of their personal independence.

Joy and jubilee for the Esidy-Kurdish refugees: Each family receives six chickens and six geese, each one male and five fem...

Shelter Now is distributing food to 20,000 people who have fled their homes inside Afghanistan.

Internally displaced families in Afghanistan are in urgent need of help from Shelter Now.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan have fled their homes – to escape mili...

Shelter Now is paying for transport and learning materials to allow children to attend school for one year

Shelter Now Germany staff member Udo Stolte writes about his latest visit to see Yazidi refugees in Suleymaniya in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region:

"I w...

Learning through play: children from the age of three will be registered at the school in the coming spring. Primary school children will receive a better education through professional teaching methods.

The new learning centre opens in spring 2018. Preparations have be...

Taking stock one year after opening: our goals have in some cases been more than achieved. Our focus is on multiplication and high sustainability.

We not only treat a lot of patients at the clinic, we also work together with the university, offering practical training t...

Nearly 100,000 people have had to return to Afghanistan, where their villages have been destroyed

In July and August alone, 72,000 refugees returned to the regions of Jalalabad and Laghman. They were originally driven out of their villages in Afghanistan by militants or...