
We introduced Somatic Experiencing to Ukraine and are actively integrating it into the country’s crisis response, while advocating for its place in collective recovery and peacebuilding worldwide. With the blessing and support of Peter Levine, who developed Somatic Experiencing, it now runs through all our crisis support activities. As the first organiser of Somatic Experiencing […]
There is a hazard specific to helping work in a war zone: the people who support others are rarely supported themselves. They organize evacuations, run children’s centres, accompany traumatized families, care for the wounded and the displaced — and hardly anyone asks how they are. Their own needs become invisible, to others and often to […]

Trauma-informed work with children looks completely ordinary: telling stories, playing, moving, drawing together. Ordinariness and togetherness are the point. For children growing up in war, we bring back the safe spaces where ordinary childhood can happen.

Untreated war trauma does not stay with the veteran. It strains families, feeds conflict and isolation, and weakens whole communities. Yet many veterans do not feel safe enough to reach out for help, or to accept it. So we take the indirect way: we build safety and competence in the circles around them, until connection […]

The Farm Shop from Liberated Territories supports agricultural farms in the Kharkiv region in continuing their production and selling their harvest. From providing seeds to selling products in two shops in Kharkiv, the project accompanies farmers along the entire value chain and thereby strengthens their economic stability.

The Belarusian regime has released several hundred political prisoners in recent months. To help them after their arrival in exile, LIBERECO and Viasna have launched a comprehensive emergency programme.

The eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk is under heavy fire. Older people and those in need of care are particularly unable to save themselves. Please support the evacuation our efforts.

More than 16,000 Ukrainian civilians are being unlawfully detained in prisons in Russia and the occupied territories. With our support, Ukrainian human rights defenders are providing legal advice to the relatives of those detained.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to support political prisoners in Belarus, as the authorities are trying everything they can to break solidarity. Nevertheless, there are still ways in which you can support these people even from abroad!

We have launched the solidarity campaign #WeStandBYyou to support political prisoners and their families. As part of the campaign, several hundred MPs have already taken over a godparenthood for a prisoner in Belarus.

We support victims of state violence who need special assistance on their road to recovery. With donations and third-party funds, we organise medical treatments for released political prisoners in exile.

More than 16,000 Ukrainian civilians are being held illegally in prisons in Russia and the occupied territories. We explain why every postcard counts and how you can reach these people even from abroad.

For Belarusians who have been forced to leave their home country due to political persecution and repression or who are planning to do so, we offer free support in matters of residence law.

The SUNRISE Centre will become a rehabilitation centre for particularly affected groups, including people with disabilities, veterans, journalists, and human rights defenders. Our goal is to create a protected space for recovery and trauma recovery.

Together with X-Traverse, the mobile clinic brings medical care to remote villages around Kupjansk, where people have no access to health services due to the destroyed infrastructure.

The war deprives many children in Ukraine of the chance of a carefree childhood. In an underground children’s centre in Saltivka, one of the most damaged districts of Kharkiv, we support a safe space for playing, learning and being together.

We are strengthening care facilities in Ukraine to provide a safe home for elderly people who need care. Expanding capacities and ensuring heat supply sustainably improve their living conditions.