EU Civil Protection & Humanita @EU_ECHO@respublicae.eu

RT European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺
The voice of indigenous youth must echo loud and clear, in their home communities and across the world. This #IndigenousDay we pay tribute to the driving force of indigenous youth shaping a future that preserves their heritage & knowledge for common good https://europa.eu/!NhxfTq

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_eeas/status/1689169640369553410

Slovenia: floods and #EUCivilProtection Mechanism response. 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1689186940828909569

This #IndigenousDay, we celebrate young indigenous people like Harold. This is his story. 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1689188816282644480

#EUSolidarity saves lives.
More than 2,500 Ukrainian patients have been already transferred to hospitals across Europe, via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
🇦🇹🇧🇪🇨🇿🇩🇰🇫🇮🇫🇷🇩🇪🇭🇺🇭🇷🇮🇪🇮🇹🇱🇹🇱🇺🇳🇱🇵🇱🇵🇹🇷🇴🇸🇮🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴 - thank you for making it possible!
#StandWithUkraine @Helsedir

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1688932806754205696

RT EU Humanitarian Aid | Middle East & North Africa
In Zaatari camp, Syrian refugees inspire each other!
Fadwa learns vocational skills at the EU-funded @UNFPAJordan safe space, where Seham empowers women by teaching carpentry and electrical work.
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Together, they break barriers and build futures. ⚡

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ECHO_MiddleEast/status/1688794495427514368

RT Copernicus EU
#ImageOfTheDay
#Portugal🇵🇹 continues to be plagued by the wildfires
On 5 August, a fire broke out near Odemira:
➡️+800 🧑‍🚒 are working to extinguish the flames blaze 🔥
⬇️The hot spots & the smoke cloud generated by #IROdemira is visible in this #Sentinel2🇪🇺🛰️image of 7 August

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1688797516475551744

Did you know that there is no such thing as a 'natural disaster'? @UNDRR explains. 👇
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UNDRR: Disasters don't have to happen. They are not a 'natural' part of life. Natural hazards such as earthquakes and tsunamis may be impossible to stop, but the loss of life and economic damage they inflict is not inevitable. #NoNaturalDisasters ❌ https://bit.ly/3MXMg66
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1688838596873052160

What is it like to work as an EU emergency response coordinator? We asked our colleague, Sien. 👇
#10yearsERCC #EUCivilProtection

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1688429765815074816

As food prices soared globally, Zimbabweans have experienced the highest inflation in the world.
Urban families like Egnetta’s are especially vulnerable.
With EU support, @WFP cash assistance enables thousands of families like hers to meet their immediate food needs.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1688487395010990080

Thousands of children in Ukraine have limited access to education.
That’s why we support @FCA_global in creating safe spaces for kids to learn and play: refurbished, modernised, and filled with toys, games, and digital equipment. ✨🧸📚

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1687741479870136321

Zosya is the youngest Ukrainian at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. 🎨
Varvara Mozhaieva, the winner of our film competition, and @VICEWorldNews, documented some of her moments in 🇩🇪, reminding us of the importance of #EducationNoMatterWhat.
Watch it here 👉 https://t.ly/4YsLb

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1687805652872183808

2.4 million children in Colombia need humanitarian assistance.
That's 2.4 million too many.
#EUHumanitarianAid is there to give them a helping hand.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1687850699789328384

RT World Meteorological Organization
Dangerous weather - intense heat and devastating rainfall – impacted large parts of the Northern Hemisphere in summer of extremes, causing major damage to people’s health and the environment.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3OnsmCJ
🗣️ #EarlyWarningsForAll #StateOfClimate
📷 @NOAAClimate

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WMO/status/1687078206308782080

RT EU Humanitarian Aid | Latin America &amp; Caribbean
"I never thought what the Darien jungle was like."
Ángel and his family fled Venezuela and crossed the #Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia.
The EU and @CruzRojaPanama deliver first aid and protection services to thousands of people who, like Ángel, have crossed the Darien.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ECHO_LatAm/status/1687130050208927745

RT UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
Fact time:
The climate emergency is forcing people to flee their homes and making life tougher for those who have already fled.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Refugees/status/1687177569924194304

Today marks 3 years since the tragic #BeirutExplosion.
In the aftermath of the blasts, we helped deploy more than 300 search and rescue, chemical and medical experts, and sent tonnes of aid supplies.
Standing in solidarity with the people of Lebanon, then and now. 🇱🇧🤝🇪🇺
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EU Civil Protection &amp; Humanitarian Aid 🇪🇺: Did you know that the EU has supported the emergency response to the tragic blast in Beirut? 🇱🇧🇪🇺
• 54 tonnes of supplies via 3 EU humanitarian air bridge flights
• €64 million in emergency funding
• +1,000 tonnes of in-kind aid by member states sent via EU Civil Protection
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1687380812402999296

E = Emergency
R = Response
C = Coordination
C = Centre
It is, essentially, the heart of the #EUCivilProtection Mechanism. And this year, it turned 10!
Find out more 👉 http://europa.eu/!Jybwh7
#10yearsERCC

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1687474212209094658

With climate change and other emerging risks, the EU Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) plays a key role in protecting EU citizens, infrastructure and biodiversity.
Hear more from our colleague, Ionut. 👇
#10yearsERCC #EUCivilProtection

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1687489822493966338

RT EU Humanitarian Aid | European Neighbourhood 🇪🇺
Ali's family had to move from their hometown Sanlıurfa to Mardin due to the devastating earthquake that hit 🇹🇷in February.
Starting a new life wasn't easy for them. Thanks to @EU_ECHO support, @Welthungerhilfe helped them find a new house and supported them with cash assistance.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/echo_Europe/status/1684097723325202432

RT William Carter
These numbers are staggering and sobering all at once; almost 4 million people have been uprooted over 108 days of violence in #Sudan.
This may quickly become the largest internal displacement crisis in the world.
Every number is a soul, a story, a person
https://dtm.iom.int/reports/dtm-sudan-situation-report-15

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WillCarter_NRC/status/1686412798048256000