Cap Anamur

Cap Anamur (official: Cap Anamur / German Emergency Doctors) is a humanitarian organisation with the goal of helping refugees and displaced people worldwide.

In 1979, amidst the rising number of Vietnamese boat people fleeing Vietnam in unseaworthy crafts, Christel and Rupert Neudeck, along with a group of friends, formed the committee "A ship for Vietnam" to rescue the refugees. For the rescue mission, the group chartered the freighter Cap Anamur, named after the French designation for Cape Anamur, a cape on the Turkish Mediterranean coast near the city of Anamur that marks the southernmost point of Anatolia. The journeys of Cap Anamur (and her sister ships afterwards) were, against the predictions of many pundits a huge success: 10,375 boat people were rescued at sea^[1] and an additional 35,000 were medically treated.

After co-founded Cap Anamur,Neudeck founded the Gernman aid organization "Green Helmets" together with Aiman Mazyek, then chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany in 2003. The organization describes itself as politically neutral, cross-national and cross-religious, but also advocates for dialogue between Christians and Muslims.^[2]

Today the projects, which are funded by private donations, also focus on continuing education for local medical personnel and construction projects to repair medical facilities and schools.

• Cap Anamur website (in German)
• Cap Anamur website (in English)