Going the extra mile to save lives

Going the extra mile to save lives

Life of a Congolese aid worker:  “Work satisfaction is going the extra mile to save lives. It is not just how much you take home for your family.” Aid worker, Moise, weathered nine days of travelling, including a dangerous walk into the wild forest to reach out to...
CEO Blog: An Emergency Within A Crisis

CEO Blog: An Emergency Within A Crisis

When we arrived in Lebanon in 2012, we came to serve people like Ramia. Ramia is from the city of Homs in neighbouring Syria. Like millions of others, she fled bombing and violence in her home country and sought refuge in Lebanon, hoping she and her son would be safe....
Lonely but safe: Waiting for baby in Congo

Lonely but safe: Waiting for baby in Congo

For expectant Congolese mothers, living in a maternal home in the last few days of their pregnancy could be a matter of life and death, both for her and the child. Jeanne left behind her two-year-old child with his husband at home to temporarily live in a maternal...
Voices of Beirut

Voices of Beirut

In the days and weeks since the blast Medair provided psychological first aid and is conducting group and individual sessions to help people work through their experiences and begin to recover. “Is there anything harder than losing purpose?” – Salma. “I lost my mind....
Staying connected during a COVID-19 lockdown

Staying connected during a COVID-19 lockdown

I enjoy the human interaction, the way people talk to me and trust me with their problems, the way they open up and speak out their sorrows, misfortunes, joys and dreams. I have been working with Medair for a year and a half now, and I don’t see myself changing my...
Syrians are not Home Yet

Syrians are not Home Yet

Mazen is a Syrian refugee now living in east Amman, Jordan. He lives with his wife and son, crowded in one room on the roof of a shabby building, struggling to make ends meet. Mazen was badly injured in Homs, he suffered from burns all over his face and hands, and...
We Live in Hope

We Live in Hope

Ever since 57-year-old Amina* and her husband Asif, 63, fled violence in Myanmar, they have only had one wish: “I want to go back. I was born there, it’s where I have lived my whole life.” says Asif. “I am here, but my soul is still beyond those hills,” adds Amina,...
Adapting cash assistance during COVID-19

Adapting cash assistance during COVID-19

The pandemic forced our teams worldwide to reconsider how they interact with communities. In Afghanistan, cash-for-work activities were set to begin in the Central Highlands in April. People would have needed to work in close proximity as they built trenches and dams...