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.
highly efficient
Our balance sheet: 93% of the donations flow directly into the projects.
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
13. March 2024
The First Month as a Midwife in Mozambique
Anja has been working as a midwife for Cap Anamur in Mozambique for four weeks. She supports the maternity department at Pemba Hospital. Cap Anamur has been rebuilding destroyed health facilities in the north of the country since 2022 and sends medical specialists.
5. March 2024
Cap Anamur Strengthens Women’s Health in the Central African Republic
The civil war in the Central African Republic, which has been going on for decades, means that there are hardly any stable healthcare facilities in the country. Women suffer particularly from this situation and every pregnancy and birth carries a high risk. Cap Anamur is therefore strengthening women's health in the country by operating a hospital.
22. February 2024
Two Years of War in Ukraine – Two Years of Unimaginable Suffering for an Entire Nation
These days mark the second anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine For two years now, we have been experiencing on the ground the suffering that this war is causing people. Our aid remains in place to ensure that the Ukrainian population continues to have access to medical care.
31. January 2024
Help for Syrian Children with Physical or Mental Disabilities
Cap Anamur offers Syrian refugees in Lebanon free access to medical care. In addition, we are particularly dedicated to children with physical or mental disabilities in our physiotherapy surgery.
23. January 2024
Medical Care for Premature Babies in our Hospital in the Central African Republic
The Central African Republic has the second highest infant mortality rate in the world. At our hospital, we are committed to improving medical care for premature babies.
15. January 2024
Sudan conflict | The need for humanitarian aid is higher than ever before
The armed conflict in Sudan is increasingly leading to a humanitarian catastrophe. Cap Anamur continues to support the medical care of the people with the hospital in the Nuba Mountains.
1. January 2024
Photo exhibition: Survival – 40 years of Cap Anamur
From Friday, January 19, 2024, the photo exhibition "ÜBERLEBEN - 40 Jahre Cap Anamur" by photographer Jürgen Escher will take place at the VHS Köln Lindenthal.
20. December 2023
A Chance for Women in Afghanistan to have a Career Future
With our training course, we are offering women in Afghanistan the chance of a professional future and, as nurses, they will then contribute to the medical care of the Afghan population.
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.