In pictures: Assistance to vulnerable families after the passage of cyclone Batsirai
Mananjary District was the impact point for cyclone Batsirai, the first tropical system to reach cyclone status during the 2021-2022 cyclone season. Medair’s response to this emergency is to provide WASH and infrastructure assistance to ensure the health of...
An Empty Hospital Bed Is a Good Sign During a Pandemic
“The breathing devices (respirators) Medair provided pulled us out of a crisis in the hospital. The number of COVID-19 critical patients was increasing daily. It was impossible to manage with the equipment we had. We needed the extra help.” Said Dr Rawda. Dr Rawda...
Cash assistance for vulnerable populations
Two intense tropical cyclones, Batsirai (Category 4) and Emnati (Category 3), successively hit the Southeastern part of Madagascar in February 2022, leaving more than 300,000 people in need. The district of Mananjary, in the Vatovavy region, which was the gateway to...
World Humanitarian Day: Everyday Heroes
World Humanitarian Day on August 19 honours humanitarian aid workers all over the world. The day pays tribute to the thousands of humanitarian workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service. Humanitarian aid workers provide life-saving assistance to suffering...
World Humanitarian day – Meet Anne Reitsema
Please introduce yourself- what is your title and what do you do with Medair? When did you join Medair? I joined Medair in 2004. More than 18 years ago. I am the International Programmes Director. I oversee all our country programmes, quality sectors, staff safety...
Out of the shadows
On 14 August 2021, Medair’s Anna Coffin was leaving Kabul after her regular visit to the country programme. She had travelled to remote and rugged places where the team was supporting people who were enduring an ongoing drought, decades of conflict, and were...
Everyone Has a Right to Mental Health
Khadeja and her children came to Jordan as refugees from Syria in 2012. When they arrived, she and her husband faced significant challenges in paying rent for a home and finding schools for their children. She felt isolated and found it hard to integrate and...
Returnees in Syria: No Place Like Home
More than 60 million people around the world are internally displaced, and 6.7 million people of this number are Syrians according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. After Ukraine, Syria has the most Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). An internally...
We Are All Human
Water in Yemen is scarce. Less than half of the population, and less than ten per cent of internally displaced persons in Yemen have access to safe water and sanitation1. We had weak infrastructure prior to the war. Now, during and after the conflict, we have damaged...
CEO BLOG: Waking Up to the Global Hunger Crisis
The world is slowly waking up to the reality that we are facing a global hunger crisis, one that threatens the survival of millions of people and heightens the risk of new conflicts and refugee crises. Our teams on the ground are extremely concerned, as they are...