In August, Medair began the vital task of rehabilitating the physical infrastructure of Marondera’s water distribution system—which provides safe drinking water to a population of 120,000.
August 2010
Afghanistan: Growing Hope in Raghistan
Medair’s new nutrition project in the mountains of Raghistan is making an immediate and far-reaching impact.
August 2010El Geneina - On 18 July, a massive rainstorm lasting for about four hours caused serious flooding in the IDP camp in Sisi, West Darfur.
August 2010
Madagascar: Better Hygiene for Better Health
In Madagascar, Medair teams use every tool at their disposal to raise awareness about the life-saving importance of proper hygiene.
August 2010
D.R. Congo: On Wings in the Night
A major new malaria prevention and treatment project begins in D.R. Congo
July 2010Medair provides an update on its work in Haiti now that six months have passed since a major earthquake struck and shook this country to the core, tragically killing approximately 230,000 people and...
July 2010In April 2010, Medair completed and closed its long-running Uganda progamme.
July 2010
Haiti: Living with Courage
Medair provides safe shelter for Haitian families living in hard-to-access rural areas.
June 2010
Sudan (Southern Sudan): “No One is Going to Believe Us”
A Medair-led assessment team finds shocking levels of child malnutrition in Akobo.
June 2010Medair responds swiftly with essential aid from pre-positioned emergency supplies in Yawan district.
May 2010
Madagascar: A Song of Survival
Medair uses creative methods to inform and motivate island residents about how to protect themselves against devastating tropical storms.
May 2010
D.R. Congo: Making it Safer for Mothers and Infants
Medair brings safe motherhood training to medical personnel in the most isolated parts of D.R. Congo.
April 2010Hundreds more people living under safer shelter every day.
April 2010
Sudan (Southern Sudan): A Long Wait for Water
Medair improves community access to safe drinking water and combats cholera in Yei, Southern Sudan.
April 2010
Sectors of Expertise: Safe Water in Droughts, Floods, and Conflicts
We reflect on some of the ways we provide safe drinking water in emergencies.
March 2010A recent assessment in Akobo East County found malnutrition rates that were three times higher than the accepted threshold for an emergency situation.
March 2010
Haiti: First Shelter
Medair’s Emma Le Beau shares the emotional responses of families living in earthquake-affected Jacmel, Haiti.
March 2010Emergency transitional shelters are now being assembled on cleared plots of land, providing safe and secure housing for Haitians as they recover from the quake’s devastation.
March 2010
Southern Sudan: We Used to Die in Darkness
Medair’s emergency response team helped combat a deadly disease outbreak in Jonglei state, Southern Sudan.
February 2010
Haiti: No Place For a Baby
Families urgently need safer and sturdier shelters in devastated Jacmel, Haiti
February 2010Medair is helping to clear the rubble away from damaged households so that people will have safer shelter as they begin to rebuild their lives.
January 2010Our emergency response team is on-the-ground assessing the level of unmet needs to determine where Medair can make the greatest impact.
January 2010Swiss-based NGO Medair is sending an assessment team to Haiti to begin emergency relief efforts for the most vulnerable people of this suffering nation.
January 2010
Afghanistan: The People's Road
A road construction project in Afghanistan’s remote Surkh Joi and Shahi valleys impacts the region in surprising and transformative ways.
January 2010
Afghanistan: Life for Women in Afghanistan
Hear the voices of some of Afghanistan’s women in a region where Medair is working to improve community health through better water and sanitation (WatSan).
December 2009
Ecublens: Going the Extra Mile
Over the past six years, Medair responded to sudden emergencies while also strengthening our rehabilitation work to make a long-lasting impact on vulnerable communities. Our teams worked in...
December 2009
Sudan (Southern Sudan): From Translator to Doctor: A Journey of Hope
Medair sponsors intensive health training for new community health workers in recovering Southern Sudan.
November 2009
Ecublens: The Path That Leads to Morning
As part of an ongoing series for Medair’s 20th anniversary, we reflect on some of our successes and challenges in the latter half of Medair’s first decade: 1994 to 1998.
November 2009
Indonesia: Accountability under Pressure
Medair’s Hylton Cannon reflects on the challenges he faced as country director of a recently closed Indonesia project—particularly in Aceh Jaya province, where a surprising evaluation spurred Medair...
November 2009Medair is operating a short-term project in Padang to help vulnerable people rebuild their homes in the wake of a devastating earthquake and several aftershocks that battered the region on 30...
November 2009
Somalia/Somaliland: Life-Saving Water
In Somaliland’s drought-stricken Togdheer region, Medair is delivering emergency truckloads of water to dozens of remote communities to save the lives of the most vulnerable.
October 2009
Ecublens: Medair: The First Five Years
As we celebrate our 20th anniversary, we reflect on the joys and struggles of Medair’s first five years (1989–1993)
October 2009
D.R. Congo: No End in Sight
Almost one year has passed since the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) began attacking villages in northeast D.R. Congo, and the crisis shows no signs of ending, with more than 250,000 people currently...
October 2009Medair has sent a Needs Assessment Team to West Sumatra in Indonesia following the recent earthquakes that affected hundreds of thousands of Indonesians.
October 2009
Afghanistan: A Miraculous Evacuation
Medair’s Afghanistan team responds to a medical emergency in one of the world’s most isolated districts.
October 2009
Somalia: We Are Like Birds
As Medair’s photography exhibition, A force d’être humain, prepares to open in Lausanne, we speak with one of our featured photographers, Jan-Joseph Stok, about his challenging profession.
September 2009
Sudan (Southern Sudan): A Battle for Hope
Medair’s Emergency Response Team fights child malnutrition in the face of a growing food crisis in Akobo,Southern Sudan.
August 2009
Sudan (Northern States): A Midnight Emergency
In conflict-affected West Darfur, the presence of Medair-supported midwives is making a life-saving difference for pregnant women and newborn children.
August 2009
Afghanistan: Defense Against Disaster
Medair’s Disaster Risk Reduction team is helping the most vulnerable villages in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province protect themselves in the event of natural disasters.
July 2009A staff member was slightly injured when shots were fired during an armed raid on a Medair compound in El Geneina, West Darfur. The compound provides a base for staff who provide essential health and...
July 2009After three years of rehabilitation work to provide access to health services, and clean water and sanitation to thousands of people in Aceh Jaya and Nias Island, Medair has now successfully...
July 2009
Uganda: A Generous Spirit
In recovering Uganda, Medair trains community counselors to provide support for traumatised orphans and child-headed households.
July 2009
Sudan (Southern Sudan): First Steps
Medair’s new tuberculosis (TB) clinic in Melut County, Southern Sudan, is showing some very encouraging results.
June 2009International NGO Medair is responding to the immediate humanitarian needs generated by extreme rainfall and flooding in Afghanistan.
May 2009
Somalia: On The Edge of a Crisis
Medair’s mobile nutrition clinics help give children in both Somaliland and Somalia the nourishment they need to survive in a land devastated by drought, political unrest, and rising food prices.
May 2009
