CHEERing’s football players are scoring goals with happier feet – thanks to Rahma Hulsman and her team from Stichting Salaam in the Netherlands. Rahma and her colleagues returned to Athens in a characteristic whirl of energy last week, and promptly bought 37 pairs of new football shoes for our older players here. They even sent…

Last night, the CHEERing team screened 40 of our young footballers for cardiac (heart) health. This included checking footballers’ heart rates and rhythm and the electrical activity of their hearts using ECG. This work is supported by the Barca Foundation. CHEERing conducts health screenings to ensure preventive health and provide direct support in refugee camps…

CHEERing would like to thank you YouBeHero for their recent 75E donation to CHEERing. Every time you shop with a YouBeHero partner, you can opt to support CHEERing and YouBeHero will make a contribution at not cost to you! Partners include booking.com and e-fresh. If the YouBeHero donate link shows up when you’re buying please…

Thanks to Eirinie and her crew from Acupuncturists without Borders, CHEERing’s football team enjoyed foot massage and reflexology at the Renti training ground in Athens this week. As part of CHEERing’s Barca Foundation-funded Futbolnet program, Football Fit provides preventive health screening, dental referrals, nutrition support and other basic public health interventions to help our players…

Former CHEERing volunteers Mariam and Charlie presented two sessions at the American Public Health Association conference this week in Boston, while CHEER, our parent center in Boston, USA, presented on our work in Mississippi, breastfeeding, and health equity. Dr Mariam Jaffer hosted a round table about COVID vaccination uptake in a population of refugees in…

In collaboration with GivMed, CHEERing has donated Primperan ampules and Sirdalud that came our way through donations, to the Asilo Aniaton institution. Asilo Aniaton has been operating since 1893 assisting the elderly who are bedridden and chronically ill. It is always a pleasure for CHEERing to be able to help. Thank you GivMed for making…

Imagine being a parent and seeing your child has worms, with no way to get rid of them. The medical advice is, wash underwear in hot water, clip nails short, and don’t play in the dirt. Which doesn’t work too well when you have no underwear, 1 washing machine per 300 people, no nail clippers…

CHEERing’s Herat team have leapt into action to help the world’s neediest children. As word spreads, Samana, our midwife-leader has been called to visit some desperate families at home, and many mothers are bringing children to the Grow Clinic with disabilities and severe nutritional needs. Mothers are breastfeeding their infants, but toddlers and older children…

Thanks to funding from the Barca Foundation, CHEERing can screen and refer our footballers for many basic health concerns like dental care, vision problems, and anemia. As an intro to the program, we led a craft activity making cardboard glasses at the cooking class last week! Last year we worked only with kids in Malakasa…