Cap Anamur provides worldwide humanitarian aid.
Cap Anamur provides worldwide humanitarian aid.
Fast, unbureaucratic and focused on sustainability.
Fast, unbureaucratic and focused on sustainability.
Cap Anamur has been working in war and crisis zones, after natural disasters, and in various emergency situations for over 40 years. Around the globe, our doctors, nurses, and project workers provide professional and immediate emergency support.
This includes creating functioning local structures, like e.g. building or restoring hospitals and schools but also the training of local personnel with the goal of being able to pass projects as soon as possible into the hands of the people.
competent
Our know-how: Practical expertise from more than 40 years of humanitarian aid.
sustainable
Our principle: Hand over projects to the local population as soon as possible.
Current projects
Current projects
Responsible action starts with project planning:
Responsible action starts with project planning:
Cap Anamur relief actions are provided in different countries worldwide and are designed to be long-term. Our projects connect to possibly existing local structures and build on cooperation with the local people. Typically, projects are handed over to the population as soon as possible to be continued locally. This way our engagement remains continuously effective even after our withdrawal and new capacities are freed for our missions.
Invitation to a Hindu wedding: Nurse Anabela Valtentin (Cap Anamur, 2015) must join the dance in the tent to the great joy of the other guests. The photo was taken in the Cap Anamur project Mountain Village Judeegaun, some 60 km from Bhaktapur. There, an earthquake destroyed almost all houses of the roughly 200 families living in the village.
Latest news
Latest news
15. November 2023
Counteracting the High Child Mortality Rate in Sierra Leone
The high child mortality rate continues to be a major global challenge. The mortality rates of newborns and infants in Sierra Leone are among the highest in the world at 34 and 82 per 1,000 live births respectively.
7. November 2023
Cap Anamur Builds Secondary School in the Central African Republic
In order to enable children in the Central African Republic to obtain a higher level of education, we have built a secondary school at our project location.
31. October 2023
Providing Access to Medical Health Facilities for Elderly Women
In Bangladesh, there is one segment of the population that is clearly affected by absolute poverty and thus by inadequate health care: older women in rural areas. Cap Anamur is therefore improving medical care for these women in particular.
23. October 2023
Reconstruction Aid for Afghanistan
Cap Anamur / German Emergency Doctors e.V. rebuilds completely destroyed homes in the earthquake region in Afghanistan.
16. October 2023
Child Malnutrition is One of the Leading Causes of Death Worldwide
For some years now, the number of people suffering from acute hunger has been on the rise again. The resulting prevalence of malnutrition and undernourishment has far-reaching effects on health, especially for children. In our project countries, such as the Central African Republic, Sudan or Bangladesh, we are confronted with the consequences of malnutrition on a daily basis.
9. October 2023
Emergency Aid for the Earthquake Victims in Afghanistan
Cap Anamur / German Emergency Doctors immediately provides emergency medical aid for the earthquake victims in Afghanistan
21. September 2023
Medical Care in Afghanistan – Cap Anamur Performs Over 3,895 Dialyses Annually
Since 2016, Cap Anamur has been supporting the dialysis unit at the provincial hospital in Herat. We provide financial resources and technical equipment for the operation. With this support, we are improving medical care in Afghanistan.
11. September 2023
Sudan Conflict | The Supply Situation of the Refugees and Especially of the Children is Getting More and More Catastrophic
Since the outbreak of armed conflict in Sudan, more than three million people have fled within the country. Hundreds of thousands have sought refuge in the Nuba Mountains. The supply situation for the refugees and especially for the children becomes more and more catastrophic.
Ole Hengelbrock, Cap Anamur Coordinator, 2017 playing football with refugee children at the IDP-Camp (Internally Displaced Persons). The photo was taken during a Cap Anamur fact-finding mission to the North of Somaliland, in the borderland to Somalia. There, an emergency situation has been caused by an ongoing drought. The last rain fell 3 years ago.
People behind Cap Anamur
People behind Cap Anamur
„When governments pass off cruelties as practical constraints, then NGOs have to step into the breach.“
— Volker Pispers, comedian
„I admire and appreciate the work, the tireless effort and the passion of the Cap Anamur/Deutsche Notärzte e.V. team, who resolutely provide help on location even when the carousel of media attention has long moved on.“
— Urban Priol, comedian
„What a story: Someone who no longer wants to consume the need of refugees as news, has an idea and starts an entire movement! Cap Anamur exists for almost my entire life and its name sounds to my ears like another word for: Looking! Acting! My heartfelt congratulations to all who are this movement and who have been helping people on location and on the run to live for 40 years! I am filled with respect!“
— Cordula Stratmann, comedian, actress, TV host and writer
„Here, donations do not seep away into a big bureaucracy, but benefit directly the genuine purpose and therefore the people. Because of this, my own experience, I since call Cap Anamur the prime example for an aid organisation.“
– Günter Wallraff, journalist and writer
„At the time when Ebola broke out, Cap Anamur did important work at the children’s hospital. For years, Cap Anamur has been helping the country. We are endlessly grateful. So many children were saved.“
— Dr. Nellie Bell, paediatric surgeon at Ola During Children’s Hospital in Sierra Leone
„We endeavour to hand over our projects only when we are certain that our support is no longer needed, but we keep in contact with those whom we know well, so that if needed, we can provide aid fast in new emergencies.“
– Dr. Werner Strahl, paediatric surgeon, and former chairman of Cap Anamur Dt. Notärzte (e.V.) German Emergency Doctors e.V.
Welcoming of the cattle drovers in the Bezaha region. In 2013, Cap Anamur teams worked in different regions of Madagascar to provide mainly medical assistance to the rural poor.