EDUCATION · HUMANITARIAN AID · DEVELOPMENT

Aid

Help that arrives is help that was planned for. Aid is the part of protection that moves — to the people the road still reaches, and to the ones it does not.

Protection fails twice: when people do not know their rights, and when help does not know how to reach them.

Aid is the second half of that sentence. It is logistics, obligation and duty of care, in that order.

Working under the sign of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Pilot opening in Kassel.

Plan. Reach. Stay.

WHERE AID STANDS TODAY

We are still building
this department.

Help promised before it is ready is a promise broken on the worst day. Routes, budgets and partners are being put in place right now — and this page grows as the department does.

Why we do this

Help is the oldest human instinct.

The news shows a disaster, something in you says I could help — and the feeling has nowhere to go.

What we do in the field

Six lines of work.
Each shown as it stands.

Knowledge is the cheapest protection there is. We teach before a crisis, during it and after. Running today: the workshops in Kassel.

The principles

Seven principles decide how we help.

IHCP works to the standard the humanitarian movement wrote for itself. Seven principles, and every step we take has to answer to all of them.

Where we work

Local everywhere, foreign nowhere.

The workshops, the pilots, the legal home: one solid dot on the map. Everything on this site can be traced back to it.

One address you can check

Im Rosental 19, Kassel. An organisation that is real somewhere specific can be visited, called and verified. We like being checkable.

Impact

Every project, told as it happened.

The problem

The rules that protect people have long been written down. Almost nobody has read them — and anyone who does not know them cannot even tell when they are broken.

What was needed

A room, a date and the text itself. And somebody who has applied these articles in the field and can answer questions.

What IHCP set out to do

Begin the seminar days where we stand: a small group, the text open, plain language. No lecture, no certificate theatre.

What IHCP did

The dates are set, registration is open, and each foundations day ends with a test. What holds here becomes the template for the next place.

Act now

With money, with mandate,
or with your hands.

Before any hand can help, something pays for the training, the insurance and the journey. Money moves first.

Duty of care

What we owe
the people we send.

Asking people to help is easy. Deserving them is work.

Never at the helper's cost

Everyone who goes out for IHCP, volunteer or professional, near or far, is prepared before, protected during and backed after. A mission that cannot keep this does not start.