EU Civil Protection & Humanita @EU_ECHO@respublicae.eu

With our funding, @WHOIraq provide life-saving medical supplies and equipment for vulnerable people in Iraq.

The assistance includes cholera kits, medical devices, intensive care unit beds, and more.

We're proud to be part of this critical effort!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654789853656276992

Education truly helps save lives. 📚💙

Humberto has dedicated his life to teaching indigenous people in Guaviare, Colombia 🇨🇴, a region where education is often the only way for youth to build a brighter future.

#EducationNoMatterWhat

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654531408449110024

No panic, it’s just an exercise.

This week, firefighters from 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇩🇪🇮🇹🇵🇹 are training together to boost their wildfires preparedness.

EU-funded drills help civil protection teams from across 🇪🇺 exchange best practices and better work together as one team in future deployments.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654517056359006208

Did you know that access to midwives 👩‍⚕️ is the single most important factor in stopping preventable maternal and newborn deaths?

On #MidwifeDay, we celebrate and champion midwives like Mama Munira for their work that saves and transforms lives. 🤰 🧡

#ThankYouMidwives @UNFPA

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654436241226473475

RT @WHOYemen: Today's International #MidwifeDay.
Let's acknowledge the heroic efforts of midwives in #Yemen despite serious economic & security challenges https://t.co/sTvsRqNSU3

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654430978939428865

Together with @UNICEF in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩, we are working to ensure access to safe drinking water 💧 for displaced people and their host communities.

Here's how the extension of the water network is going. 👇
RT @MPopowskiEU: In the #DRCongo, I saw first-hand how @EU_ECHO and @UNICEFDRC work together to provide clean water to those internally displaced and their host communities https://t.co/GmifFXUtWP

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654427218070708224

The #EUCivilProtection Mechanism plays a key role in coordinating international response to disasters across the 🌍.

Here's an overview of the activations between 2018 and 2022. 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654424641803366400

RT @ECHO_LatAm: The Indigenous Guard is a non-violent self-protection organisation tasked with protecting the lives and territory of #indigenous people.

Being the first responders to emergencies, EU🇪🇺 and @AxSolidaridadCO are strengthening their disaster preparedness in southwest #Colombia. https://t.co/7FnsA1GtFp

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654423412738072578

RT @FSIN_News: 🔴In 2022, over 258 million people experienced acute food insecurity across 58 countries and territories.

This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the Global Report on Food Crises.

Find out more about the latest #GRFC
👇
https://www.fsinplatform.org/global-report-food-crises-2023

#FightFoodCrises https://t.co/GopNoAsUto

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654423207875624960

They planned safe passageways, hopped on 🚁, cut through thick forests and carried portable water pumps.

In February, more than 250 firefighters, medics and coordination experts sent via the EU supported Chile in their battle against 🔥.

#FirefightersDay #ThrowbackThursday

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654171528957939712

Fighting 🔥 takes more than just physical strength. Firefighting teams need data and analysis to assess fire behaviour and make the right decisions.

This is where the forest fires assessment and advisory team (FAST) steps in. 👇

#FirefightersDay #ThrowbackThursday

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654156932796809216

@vigilidelfuoco @ProteccaoCivil @proteccioncivil @eu_modex @euromodex @SecCivileFrance @DPCgov @BBK_Bund @FeuerwehrDFV @UMEgob Better preparation = better international teamwork = more lives and infrastructure saved.

Special thanks to @euromodex for organising, and to @ProteccaoCivil for hosting the exercise!

#FirefightersDay #EUCivilProtection

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654148124221358082

This week, 240 firefighters from Portugal, Spain, Germany, France and Italy are training together in Abrantes 🇵🇹 to be better prepared for future wildfires emergencies.

This EU-funded simulation exercise involves 76 firefighting vehicles 🚒, 2 helicopters 🚁 and an airplane 🛩️.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654119848530812937

RT @echo_Europe: Today, we mark International Firefighters' Day.

We honour and thank those who risk their lives every day to save others.

Andriy is one of them. Read his story of fighting fire and fear in war-affected Ukraine here 👉 https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/stories/meet-ukrainian-firefighter-battling-flame-and-fear_en https://t.co/wEF3U8RVH7

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654116649157668865

RT @unwomengeneva: Thanks to @EU_ECHO for keeping women & girls needs at the center of humanitarian responses.
Women & girls are often bearing the brunt of conflicts and crises so we need to ensure that their voices are heard, may it be in Sudan, Afghanistan or Ukraine.
#FundingGenderEquality https://t.co/7cnc6AiIWR

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654116325130919936

What do you do in case of fire? You call the fire service.

But what if the fire truck 🚒 cannot reach the affected area?

That was one of the problems these firefighters in Nepal used to face. We worked with @UNDPNepal to help them find a solution.

#FirefightersDay

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654108408667312128

The voting starts now! 🏆🙌

We are in the running for an @EUombudsman 2023 Good Administration Award with... 👇

2⃣2⃣ Fighting wildfires in Europe
2⃣3⃣ Providing lifesaving support to the people of Ukraine
3⃣0⃣ Showing how EU humanitarian aid is helping the Ukrainian people
RT @EUombudsman: We have published the list of 57 nominees for our 🇪🇺 Award for Good Administration 2023!

🗳️ In addition to the overall #EOAward 🥇 and category prizes, we are inviting the public…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654048545081573376

RT @UNDRR: ⛈️☀️ 56.8 million people in 12 countries suffered from acute food insecurity because of extreme weather conditions in 2022 – compared to 23.5m people in 8 countries in 2021.

The latest @FSIN_News 's Global Report on Food Crisis is out ➡️ https://www.fsinplatform.org/report/global-report-food-crises-2023/ https://t.co/lFqqLooQKn

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654044344129667072

RT @CopernicusEMS: #InternationalFirefightersDay

Today our thoughts are with the firemen & firewomen community!👨‍🚒

It brings us immense pride to have contributed to 6⃣5⃣9⃣ #RapidMapping operations worldwide🌍since 2012 in support of emergency management activities

#rescEU https://t.co/giMhAq2uJ9

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654044272700583938

Last year, wildfires hit Europe hard.

To help fight the blaze, our emergency response coordination centre mobilised:

✈️ 33 planes
🚁 8 helicopters
👩‍🚒 350 firefighters

🇧🇬🇭🇷🇫🇮🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇷🇮🇹🇷🇴🇪🇸🇸🇪🇸🇰🇵🇱 - thank you for your contribution!

#FirefightersDay #ThrowbackThursday

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eu_echo/status/1654030909119537153