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The Portugal with UNHCR Foundation has launched a fundraising campaign to respond to the humanitarian crisis triggered by the war in the Middle East, where 885,000 displaced people have been recorded to date, said the organization's director.
Olen and Bohdan have been living in Portugal since September 2022, in a house provided to them by a humanitarian centre.
After almost a whole week without power or network in Vieira de Leiria, in Marinha Grande, the parish council has “finally managed to communicate with the outside” and centralise the distribution of food and hygiene supplies. The parish council president, Álvaro Cardoso, says that, at the moment, “the main need is labour”.
The Diocesan Cáritas of Leiria is monitoring the emergency situation in the region, where electricity, water supply and communications outages persist, affecting a large number of families and institutions. As an urgent measure, it is appealing for donations of tarpaulins and plastic sheeting to help those whose roofs and coverings were damaged by Storm Kristin.
The Aga Khan Organisation collected around 20 tonnes of essential items in Lisbon to send to Mozambique following floods that have struck the country since October and have already affected around 700,000 people.
A grandmother, 15 mothers and 18 children, victims of the war in Ukraine, arrived in Lisbon on Saturday.
A group of mothers and children who are relatives of Ukrainian soldiers killed or missing in action landed at Lisbon airport on Saturday as part of a humanitarian mission in which Portugal will host them for three weeks, providing support for emotional rehabilitation.