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The second webinar, entitled “Mental health of refugees and migrants: myths and realities”, will explore the myths surrounding the mental health of people on the move, showcase successful interventions and responses, and critically examine current policy options for addressing this area. The webinar seeks to embolden audiences to take an active approach to improving the…

Today, lawyer and psychologist Maria Jammal has won the 2019 FPdGi International Award for “her excellent work as co-founder and CEO of Humanity Crew, an outstanding organisation that both highlights and creates solutions for the mental health problems suffered by refugees. Read More

Jana has worked alongside the founders of Humanity Crew to strengthen its grassroots initiative which focuses on providing mental health support to people in crisis. Jana is proud to manage the programming for an organization which was founded by Palestinians of `48 and which in itself embodies the self-help mentality that is often lacking in…

The Need of Golden Hours in Tragic Times: Mental Health initiatives to support the Refugees The ongoing refugee crisis has been the subject of immense debate across the world. Millions of people have been displaced as a result of extreme violence. And while there are countries who have given them asylum, and organizations that have…

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For the past three years, Humanity Crew has attempted to shed light on the importance of prioritizing mental health while dealing with the global refugee crisis. They have cooperated with international organizations on providing culturally- and linguistically-sensitive treatment for Syrian, Palestinian, and Iraqi refugees, and continue to advocate for it with other organizations. Humanity Crew…

Essam Daod, the founder of Humanity Crew, first volunteered in a refugee camp as physician, but he soon realized that no one was there to help refugees cope with their more invisible traumas. Read More

In the fall of 2015, Essam Daod was standing on the beach in Lesbos, Greece, when a crowded rubber dinghy packed with refugees landed ashore. Among them was an inconsolable five-year-old Syrian boy named Omar. Read more

This Tuesday, the annual TED conference kicked off in Vancouver, BC. TED has become a media juggernaut, with 2,700 talks viewed more than 11 billion times in 116 languages. And as TED’s audience has gotten increasingly global, so have TED’s speakers. Conference programming has also seemed to shift away from product launches and wonky tech demos to…