Our 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
: 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
South 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
: 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
: 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
: 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
: 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
: Forged in the Fire
Were you already a part of Medair’s family of supporters in the years of 1999 to 2003? If not, we want to tell you here about some of the important events in these years of our history that helped...
September 2009
South 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 2009Medair, a Swiss-based humanitarian organisation that brings life-saving emergency relief and rehabilitation in disasters, conflict areas, and other crises, today is celebrating World Humanitarian Day...
August 2009
Sudan: 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
South 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 2009International NGO Medair has initiated a swift response to contain an outbreak of bloody diarrhoea in two health zones in Dungu territory.
May 2009
South Sudan: Going the Extra Mile
A Medair team treks through bush, mountains, swamps, and croc-inhabited rivers to protect children from deadly measles in remote Southern Sudan.
April 2009A Medair team is providing emergency aid to the most vulnerable municipality of Anjanzana—where flooding is as high as two metres and drinking water sources are contaminated—to ensure provision of...
April 2009
Afghanistan: Expectant Mother in Afghanistan
In July of 2007, Medair began a reproductive health programme in remote Badakhshan province in order to reduce high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality and to make lasting improvements to the...
April 2009
Madagascar: From Muddy Puddles to Clean Drinking Water
A Medair hygiene promotion team tests an alternative method for providing safe drinking water.
March 2009
South Sudan: John’s Story
Alice Wyatt, Medair’s Nutrition Manager for Southern Sudan, recounts a dramatic story from an emergency response for severe malnutrition.
February 2009
Madagascar: Being Accountable to the People of Madagascar
Medair goes to great lengths to ensure that our beneficiaries are meaningfully involved in our interventions. We want them to be able to complain or make suggestions as easily as possible in our...
February 2009
