Defending vulnerability

Our project focus

With empathy, trust, and respect, medico's partner organizations create spaces where survivors of torture, displacement, or sexual violence can regain their dignity and ability to act. The projects acknowledge the suffering of people who have experienced extreme violence and remain committed to solidarity—rather than leaving those affected to their own devices after a brief period of individual support aimed at building “resilience.”

Resist Connect and Stand Up! Titelbild psychosoziales Manifest

Resist, Connect and Stand Up!

Ein Manifest für psychosoziale Arbeit in Zeiten des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenbruchs | A Manifesto for Psychosocial Support in Times of Collapse

Against the privatisation of suffering

Unbearable

In a troubled world, psychosocial work means not simply enduring the conditions in the world that make people ill. Theory and practice of our cooperations.

Interview

A Safe Space

Aktivistinnen der medico-Partnerorganisation Phephisa posieren fürs Team-Foto.

In South Africa, the Phephisa Survivors Network organizes survivors of gender-based violence. But that's not the only danger these women face.

Namibia

So all good again now?

Ngauzepo, Hanging Tree, Namibia, Ovaherero und Nama wurden an solchen Bäumen während des Genozid ermordet.

German remembrance policy is patting itself on the back. In Namibia we are seeing just how deficient it actually is.

What comes after freedom?

A new Syria

Al-Hamidiya-Basar, Damaskus, Februar 2025

A report from Damascus and Rojava. By Anita Starosta

South Africa

Care work is doing change

An interview on a legal case for the rights of Community Health Workers (CHW) and the future of care relationships

Interview

A Safe Space

Aktivistinnen der medico-Partnerorganisation Phephisa posieren fürs Team-Foto.

In South Africa, the Phephisa Survivors Network organizes survivors of gender-based violence. But that's not the only danger these women face.

What comes after freedom?

A new Syria

Al-Hamidiya-Basar, Damaskus, Februar 2025

A report from Damascus and Rojava. By Anita Starosta

Namibia

So all good again now?

Ngauzepo, Hanging Tree, Namibia, Ovaherero und Nama wurden an solchen Bäumen während des Genozid ermordet.

German remembrance policy is patting itself on the back. In Namibia we are seeing just how deficient it actually is.

South Africa

Care work is doing change

An interview on a legal case for the rights of Community Health Workers (CHW) and the future of care relationships

Psychosocial work

Project Funding 2025

  • Strengthening and deepening transnational solidarity networks and political positions, and fostering mutual support within the psychosocial sector
  • Local answers, global problems: Exchanging ideas on transnational feminist strategies
  • Enabling the protection and enforcement of access to justice and victims’ rights / Verband der Beratungsstellen für Opfer rechter, rassistischer und antisemitischer Gewalt
  • Core support / FATRA e.V. – Frankfurter Arbeitskreis Trauma und Exil – Psychosoziale Beratung für Flüchtlinge und Folteropfer

Project Funding 2025: € 32,755.61

Projects – Projections

All articles on the topic of psychosocial work

13.10.2022 South Africa
How do we move forward as a society?

Pandemic, War and Xenophobia. A conversation with Koketso Moeti.

29.03.2022 Lecture Series
The shakes explored

Review of auf "Troubling Psyche[s] – Affects and Struggles in the Pandemic".

24.03.2021 Global Feminisms
Protest meets pandemic

March 8 confirmed it once again: Feminism is a truly global movement. This also means that its differences should be understood. They are more visible than ever in the pandemic. By Julia Manek

31.08.2018 Resilience
The rise of a concept

Resilience has become a buzzword in development affairs and a yardstick for funding decisions. In regard to security, climate change, natural disasters and terrorism, resilience is given an increasingly dominant role in crisis management. By Usche Merk.

27.06.2016 South Africa
Breaking the Walls of Trauma Counselling

A critical analysis of the models and diagnoses of trauma on the basis of the work at the SCPS, Johannesburg.

25.06.2015 Afghanistan
Bottom-up reconciliation

In this traumatised and fragmented country, AHRDO insists that peace has to be based on justice and a voice for all.

20.11.2014 Psychosocial Work
Globalization and Its Discontents

The World Health Organization predicts that by 2020 depression will be the second most common illness worldwide.

20.11.2014 medico practice
Guidelines for psychosocial work

What should therapy, psychosocial aid and emancipatory psychosocial work look like? How can we make room for attentive relationships that are based on mutual aid and help individuals and groups to refuse the commodification of their illness?

04.06.2013 Theatre of the Oppressed

01.06.2013 New approaches for the new generation