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Afghanistan: Aid in a Time of Drought
As world food prices skyrocket, Medair is urgently delivering a comprehensive food aid programme to remote valley communities in drought-stricken Afghanistan.
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Uganda: My Years in Uganda
After three-and–a-half years working for Medair in Uganda, Henrieke Hommes, a manager in our health programme, reflects on her experience and on the hope she sees in the embattled country.
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Sudan (Southern Sudan): Wash Your Hands with Soap or Ash!
Medair conducts a month-long health and hygiene promotion campaign in Melut County that culminates in a successful day of deworming treatment.
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Congo (D.R.): “Without Medair, my child would already be dead”
Our medical staff respond to a meningitis outbreak in northeast D.R. Congo.
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Sudan: Donkey Carts Waiting Below
With vision and versatility, Medair’s Sudan staff travel to remote regions to reach their beneficiaries, contending with unpredictable weather, the threat of insecurity, and many different kinds of terrain.
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Madagascar: Blown Away
Medair initiates an emergency response after the category four cyclone Ivan hits the east coast of Madagascar, leaving devastation in its wake.
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Sudan (Northern States): “We Don't Know Where Else We Would Go”
On a day in December, Medair pays a supervisory visit to the Abu Zuruj clinic it supports in this conflict-torn region.
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Southern Sudan: A New Day in Melut Town
Medair’s new Primary Health Care Centre is already making a significant impact on the population
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Afghanistan: An Uphill Road
Medair delivers food supplies to remote villages in central Afghanistan
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Medair Serves the Most Vulnerable: Conflicts, Disasters, and Other Crises (Second part)
In the second part of this feature article, we examine the disasters and other crises that contribute to the vulnerability of our beneficiaries.
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Medair Serves the Most Vulnerable: Conflicts, Disasters, and Other Crises (first part)
In the feature, we examine the conflicts, disasters, and other crises that contribute to the vulnerability of our beneficiaries.
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Sudan (Northern States): Refreshingly Safe and Cool to Drink
Medair runs an innovative pilot project that introduces bio-sand filters to a community in Southern Kordofan
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Sudan (Northern States): With Courage and Resolve
Medair staff are assisting the residents of Bir Dagaig in West Darfur, after they were displaced and their village was looted.
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Southern Sudan: Rising Above the Waters
Medair and Tearfund conduct a joint emergency intervention in response to severe flooding in Southern Sudan
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Pakistan: New Homes and Temporary Shelters
Medair’s Hylton Cannon talks with earthquake survivors living in the mountains of Pakistan’s Poonch District
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Iran: Stories from Bam
Medair’s former country director returns to an old project site and is thrilled by what he sees.
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Southern Sudan: Battling Malnutrition in Southern Sudan
At eight months old, Kau was severely malnourished and dehydrated. He was suffering from a series of infections, had diarrhoea, pneumonia, and didn’t want to drink. Without appropriate treatment, he would have died.
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Southern Sudan: Until the Floodwaters Recede
Wendy and the Medair team in Southern Sudan describe a recent emergency response to the flood-affected residents of the city of Renk.
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Congo (D.R.): Democratic Republic of Congo 10 years on – Medair reflects
On 16th June 2007, Medair marked the 10th anniversary of its presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Among its achievements during this time, Medair has distributed more than 1 million kg worth of medicine over 160,000 km sq – an area four times the size of Switzerland - to over 2 million inhabitants in the remote Ituri and Uélé regions.
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Pakistan: First Reconstructed School Opens in Earthquake-Affected Region
On 19 June 2007, the Kathiara Government Girls’ Middle School was officially opened in Poonch District, Pakistan-administered Kashmir. It is the first of eleven schools that are being completely rebuilt and refurnished by Medair.
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Afghanistan: Life-saving water & sanitation project launched in vulnerable Central Provinces
On 1 June 2007, Medair began a project that will provide sanitation facilities and access to clean water for 1,200 families (8,500 people) in the remote Wardak and Bamyan provinces of Afghanistan.
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Sudan (Northern States): All Our Wells Are Dry
Medair provides training in water cycle management to enable communities to manage their limited water supply.
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Switzerland: Medair helps Swiss students build water pump
On Monday 24 May 2007 a ceremony to inaugurate a new pump took place – only not in Darfur, but in the small Swiss town of Yverdon-les-bains.
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Afghanistan: Avalanche, Medair First And Only NGO On The Scene
The snow lay thick on the ground. On 27 March 2007, three men went about their business, washing gold in the river, about 1 hour away on foot from their village of Dahan-e Shala in Raghistan district, Afghanistan. But it was a fatal expedition. An avalanche came suddenly, killing two of them. The surviving man went to get help.
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Sri Lanka: Two Years After the Tsunami
Former Medair Country Director returns to Sri Lanka project site.
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Southern Sudan: Small Things with Great Love
Medair’s Aaron Stewart recounts the story of a distribution day in Southern Sudan
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Congo (D.R.): Fistula: A Mother’s Misery
Medair and its partners support operations on women who suffer from a devastating and neglected childbirth injury.
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Madagascar: Madagascar’s cyclone survivors in desperate need of safe drinking water
Medair is racing to supply access to safe water and hygiene to prevent the spread of disease, after Cyclone Indlala struck an already highly-vulnerable population.
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Indonesia: Medair begins vital rehabilitation project on remote Nias Island, Indonesia
On 1 February 2007, Medair begins a project that will improve access to health care, clean water, and sanitation in remote disaster-stricken communities on the island of Nias in Sumatra Province, Indonesia. This project expands Medair’s ongoing Indonesia programme, providing support to an additional 35,000 of the most underserved and forgotten beneficiaries in the area.
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Madagascar: Medair responds to flooding in Madagascar
Medair has started an emergency programme this week around the city of Antananarivo in Madagascar following severe floods. 20,000 people have fled their homes and are taking shelter in camps without adequate water and sanitation facilities.
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Southern Sudan: I was blind but now I see
Medair partners with Christian Blind Mission to restore vision to the blind in South Sudan
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Sudan: Barge Trip on the River Nile
Medair teams in the northern and southern states of Sudan join forces to deliver vital supplies to the people of Southern Sudan
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Sudan (Northern States): Training Day in Sudan
Medair’s Annet Van Vliet recounts her experiences at a four-day training workshop for Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in the Nuba Mountains.
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Pakistan: Shelters clinging to the mountainside
In the village of Bhangli, the houses cling to the mountainside at an altitude of 2,000 metres. You can just about make them out, hidden between the trees and the fields of maize. Medair is the only NGO to work here, just 100 km from the epicentre of the earthquake. This region suffered greatly in the aftermath of the earthquake on account of its poverty.
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Congo (DRC): The Stories of Gety
Families struggle to survive, caught in Congo’s (DRC) ongoing conflict that has devastated the area near Gety village.
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