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'Flanders welcomes the bereaved' 2017 - 2020
Project: 1917 - 2017 Flanders welcomes the bereaved Beneficiary: Westtoer apb Amount: 15.980 Euros Duration: 2017 For the important commemorative year 2017 Westtoer started the project '1917 Total war in Flanders'. The main communication tool for the project in the targeted countries (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands) , is a social media designed promotional video.
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100 years Talbot House
Project: 100 years Talbot House Beneficiary: Talbot House vzw Amount: 97.909 euro Duration: 2015 In 2015, Talbot House, the British soldier club in Poperinge during the Great War, celebrates its 100th anniversary. Throughout the year, events and activities are organized both in Belgium and abroad.
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100,000 euros for famine in South Sudan (2017)
Project: emergency aid for maalnourished children in South Soudan beneficiary: Plan België Amount: 100.000 euro Duration: March 2017 South Sudan is a very young country. In addition to the continuing civil war, it is also affected by long periods of drought. More than 3 million people are on the run. 5 million people in need. Plan België is active in South Sudan since 2006.
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Annual grant to the UN Emergency Fund CERF 2017
Project: Annaual grant to CERF Beneficiary: CERF Amount: 600.000 euro Duration: 2017 Flanders has contributed annually to the UN Emergency Aid Fund since 2011.
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Commemoration 'Battle of Messines' (2017)
Project: Commemoration Battle of Messines Beneficiary: City Messines Amount: 60.000 euros Duration: June 7, 2017 On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 it will be exactly 100 years ago that 19 mines exploded under the German positions and thus heralded the start of the infamous Battle of Messines. The explosions resulted in gigantic craters, which are still visible in Messines, Ypres and Heuvelland. Several monuments and cemeteries in the region refer to this historical battle. 100 years later, these historical events are commemorated internationally.
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Commemoration Battle of Messines (Heuvelland) (2017)
Project: Commemorating 100 years Battle of Messines Beneficiary: Municipality Heuvelland Amount: 49.775 euro Duration: June 10, 2017 During the Battle on June 7, 1917 the British army left 19 mines explode under the ridge around and around Mesen / Wijtschate. The Second Battle of Messines went down in history as the worst military explosion until the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and changed the landscape around Heuvelland and Messines final.
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Corefunding of UNRWA (2015)
Duration: 2015 Budget: 150.000 euro the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) offers the refugees education, health care, shelter, microfinancing and first aid, especially in war times.
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Curriculum ‘The Volunteers: Americans join World War One, 1914-1919’
Project: Curriculum ‘The Volunteers: Americans join World War One, 1914-1919’ Beneficiary: AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc Amount: 30.000 USD Duration: 2014 - 2016 The Volunteers: Americans Join World War I, 1914-1919 Curriculum was launched on March 2 at an event hosted by the Flanders House in New York City and online at thevolunteers.afs.org. The event featured keynote speaker Sophie De Schaepdrijver, a distinguished Belgian historian, Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, and recipient of the Order of the Crown (Belgium).
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Demining in Gaza Province (APOPO) (2009)
Project: demining the province of Gaza in Mozambique Beneficiary: APOPO Duration: 2009-2013 Budget: 1.200.000 euro Each year, more than 15,000 people worldwide fall victim to anti-personnel mines. Most mines are found in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Emergency aid earthquake Nepal 2015
Project: emergency aid for Nepal Beneficiary: Rode Kruis Vlaanderen (Red Cross Flanders) Amount: 100.000 euro Duration: April 2015 On the 25th of April a severe earthquake hit Nepal. More than 2000 people were killed and thousands are injured. Minister-president Geert Bourgeois allocates 100.000€ emergency aid for the victims of the disaster. The emergency aid goes to the Red Cross. Active in the region for more than 35 years, the Red Cross was able to start up the humanitarian aid quickly, due to their focus on ‘disaster preparedness’.
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Emergency aid food supply for Niger 2016
Project: food supply for 500 households in Niger Beneficiary: Oxfam Amount: 230.000 euro Duration: 2016 Flanders grants 230,000 euros to Oxfam for humanitarian aid in Niger. Oxfam's emergency aid in Diffa is part of its broader strategy in the crisis around the Chad lake. This project will focus on 500 of the most vulnerable households (3500 people) in Diffa.
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Emergency aid for Syrian refugees (2015)
Project: emergency aid for Syrian refugees in their own country Beneficiary: Caritas Amount: 150.000 euro Duration: September 2015 After five years of war in the region, the humanitarian conditions of the Syrian people are worsening rapidly. More than 12 million people are in need of emergency assistance. 7.6 million are fleeing the violence in Syria and the neighboring countries. Caritas International supports these refugees in their own region. Many flee to the coast of Syria. Numberless families arrive with little or no means and are living in poor the humanitarian conditions.
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Emergency aid humanitarian crisis Yemen 2015
Project: Emergncy aid humanitarian crisis in Yemen Beneficiary: Rode Kruis Vlaanderen (Red Cross Flanders) Amount: 150.000 euro Duration: 2015 The conflict in Yemen has been going on for a long time, but in recent years the humanitarian situation of the population has deteriorated. The Red Cross Flanders will urgently assist refugees in precinct conditions in the provinces of Lahij, Taiz, Al Dhale'e, Amran, together with the German Red Cross and the Yemeni Red Half Moon volunteers. Assistance is provided in the area of food and water supply, basic hygiene and medical and psychosoci
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Grant 'Social inclusion for young refugees', 2018
Project: Youth Together. Social inclusion through Youth work for young refugees jeugdwerk Benificiary: Council of Europe Amount : 80.000 euros Duration: June 2018 - December 2019
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Grant Essay competition 70 years Council of Europe, 2019
Project: Essay competition for youngsters on the Role of the Council of Europe in the future Benificiary : Europahuis Ryckevelde Amount: 6.105 euros Duration: May – Oktober 2019
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Grant for Commemoration of World War I - Peace education, 2014
Project: Project: World War - peace education project Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: 50.000 USD Duration: 2014 - 2018 This project includes an educational peace-building initiative on the occasion and in memory of the commemoration of the century of the First World War in 2014. It is based on underwater cultural heritage of the time, but also links are made with the situation today. The emphasis is on reconciliation.
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Grant for emergency aid floods in Malawi and Mozambique, 2015
Project: emergency aid after floods in Malawi and Mozambique Beneficiary: Malawi Humanitarian Emergency Response Fund (HERF) and One Programme UN Amount: 329.000 euro Duration: February 2015 In recent weeks heavy rainfall has caused severe flooding in Mozambique and Malawi. In Mozambique the provinces of Zambézia and Nampula are affected the worst. It is feared that at least 200,000 people will soon feel the effects of the food shortage. In Malawi especially the southern districts of Nsanje, Chikwawa, Phalombe and Zomba are affected.
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Grant for emergency aid to monitor food shortage in Malawi (2015)
Project: emergency aid for food crisis in Malawi Beneficiary: World Food Programme Amount: 208.149 euro Duration: 2015 - 2016 In Malawi an estimated 2.8 million people are threated by a food shortage will be through the combination of floods and severe drought caused by a severe El Niño, a climate phenomenon that is caused by an abnormal warming of the seawater in the eastern tropical Pacific. Together with the international community, the Malawian government addresses this situation with a national action plan.
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Grant for Memorial Garden Canberra (2017)
Project: Memorial Garden - Flanders Fields Memorial Garden in Canberra Beneficiary: Australian War Memorial Amount: 200.000 euro Duration: opening in April 2017 In April 2017 the Australian War Memorial officially opened the Flanders Fields Memorial Garden. The memorial gardens abroad help to ensure international attention for Flanders Fields and Flanders as peace destination after 2018. The memorial gardens honor and commemorate everyone who fought and died during the war.
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Grant for mergency aid cholera in Haiti 2016
Project: Emergency aid cholera in Haiti Beneficiary: Rode Kruis Vlaanderen Amount: 100.000 euro Duration: October 2016 On October 4, 2016 the south-west of Haiti was struck by Hurricane Matthew.