In April 2024, CHEERing Board Members Farzana Hakimi and Feraydon Rahimi spent a week in Barcelona training with the FC Barcelona Foundation. They presented to a group of other program representatives from many countries, and got to visit the FC Barcelona Museum and training complex.

CHEERing is featured April 2024 by @fundaciofcb as one of their two funded projects in Greece! https://foundation.fcbarcelona.com/videos https://foundation.fcbarcelona.com/greece

CHEERing is partnering with Vitamin Angels, a global public health NGO whose goal is to reduce inequities in malnutrition by giving underserved, nutritionally vulnerable populations access to evidence-based nutrition interventions. The project will make vitamin A and deworming medicines available to children under 5, and multivitamins to pregnant women to refugee families in greater Athens….

CHEERing Afghanistan funder the Linda Norgrove Foundation has featured our work with mothers and children in Herat in their latest newsletter. Check out the article below! Read the full newsletter here. Thanks to the dedication of our Afghan team members in Greece, our colleagues in Afghanistan, and funding from the Linda Norgrove Foundation, CHEERing’s program to…

Using a collaborative network of pharmacies, businesses, and NGOs, GIVMED works throughout Greece to redistribute medicines that would otherwise be wasted (see https://givmed.org/en/). In 2023, CHEERing received €9,096 in medications from the GIVMED network, including large donations of iron, vitamin D drops for infants, and muscle rubs. CHEERing distributes these medicines to refugee populations, and could…

Woolly wonders from Germany! CHEERing received a special delivery from children at Johannes Kepler Gymnasium (Kepler High School) in Reutlingen, Germany. The school sent 413 hand-knit hats, scarves, socks, and gloves for refugee families – packed with love and chocolate. We distributed the delivery during our football trainings and Grow Clinics at Malakasa and Thiva…

Three CHEERing Football Club coaches have received fully-funded scholarships from the England Football Association on the FA’s Introduction to Coaching Football course. The course combines weekly webinars, e-learning modules, community support, and other resources to help sharpen their coaching skills. CHEERing coaches Feraydon, Shir, and Davood have already passed the FA’s Introduction to First-Aid and…

CHEERing Associate Director Farzana Hakimi presented to members of the European Parliament, the European Commission, and special interest groups during a three-day visit to Brussels in November 2023. Farzana visited with a delegation from the Greek Forum of Refugees to discuss the plight of refugees in Greece and to describe conditions and concerns. She also…

CHEERing presented this year at the American Public Health Association 2023 Annual Meeting & Expo, a conference attracting more than 12,000 public health professionals!  Our platform presentation ‘Assessing Oral Health and Coordinating Care Among Refugee Populations in Athens, Greece’ shared findings on dental health and interventions among refugees in the Barça Foundation SportNet program in Athens, Greece, funded by the Barça Foundation. The NGO Seeds of…

Three earthquakes killed 5000 people in the Herat region in October 2023, although the media barely noticed. Our CHEERing Herat team spent many days living in makeshift tents. Given the needs of our malnourished children and pregnant women, the team did one clinic in the open air, but returned 10 days ago to the building….