A Refugee in my Country; Stories from the Conflict
It’s the seventh year of the conflict that started in early 2015 and led Yemen to become the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. To Yemenis, it’s much worse. Yemen already had many issues. The country was one of the poorest and most vulnerable countries in the Arab...
Supporting Mothers and Their Well-being
10 years after the start of the Syria crisis, over 700,000 refugees remain displaced in Jordan. Families fled from Syria, leaving their homes, where generations had established lives. This creates immense economic, social, emotional, and physical challenges for...
Standing together for a better community
Child nutrition in Yemen is poor, with high levels of malnutrition among children under-five years. The recently concluded Emergency Food Security and Nutrition Assessment shows that all governorates had malnutrition rates above the acceptable levels. In Al-Madaribha...
CEO BLOG: Why DR Congo matters
I’ve been able to visit two of our humanitarian responses recently – DR Congo and Ukraine. These are vastly different crises and only one dominates our news feeds. I first worked in DR Congo more than 20 years ago and I know that every year thousands of lives are...
Igniting Hope
“Climate change will add complexity and uncertainty to the myriad challenges faced by Lebanon. What is certain, however, is the need for action and the full engagement at all levels of the community, today and into the future.” says Najat Rochdi, UN Resident &...
A Year With Medair: Lessons Learned
Hello, it’s Rand, I lived in Damascus almost my whole life. I am Medair’s first Communications Officer in Syria; It’s been a year, and I want to share with you how this experience is changing my life. Lesson number 1: you would think that passion and dreams are set on...
Determined Steps
This is Omar, lighting up the room with every step he took, as he stood and held the rollator on his own, going around the tiny room to show us how many steps he can take. Omar was silent the whole time, but his determination and focus to keep going spoke louder than...
VAXinated
In its continued fight against COVID-19 in Lebanon Medair, in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and with funding from EU Humanitarian Aid, established mobile COVID-19 vaccination teams by adapting several buses to create ‘VaxBuses’. The aim is to...
Shelter: More Than Walls and a Ceiling
Yahia left his home in Aleppo during the crisis because it was in an unstable area. He was displaced with his family to another area in Aleppo, only returning once the situation stabilized in his neighborhood years later. “I am a daily worker; I don’t have a stable...
Ukraine Crisis: Making Connections Wherever You Are
In a moment, everything can change. Families in Ukraine and in many other parts of the world where we work know this all too well. One day, life is as it always has been. The next, you and your family may have lost everything in a natural disaster, or are on the run...