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For a More Just, Supportive and Human New Year
Dear All, 2019 marked an important milestone for EMERGENCY. We celebrated our 25th birthday! On 15 May 1994, a group of friends committed themselves to delivering free, high-quality healthcare to victims of war, poverty and landmines. Since that day, over 10 million people have been treated. Thousands of doctors, nurses, technicians, cooks, and gardeners have…
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Christmas 2019
Merry Christmas from everyone at EMERGENCY. Together, we can make a real difference.
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Land and Sea: Rights Denied Everywhere
The clock had just struck two when the head of our mission came to tell me there was a dinghy drifting a few miles from the ship. Just a few hours before we had been told a dinghy had capsized, leaving 60 people in the sea. Everyone on board was tense. You could read the…
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10th December: Human Rights Day
To really change things, you have to choose which side to take. A right denied to one person is a right denied to all. HUMAN RIGHTS – ALWAYS. #HumanRightsDay
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A long journey…
A long journey… an important one that has a primary goal: supporting women. From the Panjshir Valley to Milan, passing through Brussels and finally back to where everything started: Afghanistan.. but this time Kabul. On Wednesday, we presented our Maternity Report, “A Quiet Revolution”, in the Afghan capital. Hosted by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs,…
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Thanksgiving 2019
To give or not to give? That is the question. Thanksgiving is a powerful day. People come together, feel united, and bridge boundaries. It is a day to consider one of the most powerful acts one can make – giving. Today, when sharing becomes a form of reconciliation, we remind ourselves of the value of…
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World Children’s DAY 2019
On 20 November 1989, the most widely ever ratified agreement was born: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The protection of children’s rights demands the realisation of a world with freedom, justice and peace. 30 years later, on #WorldChildrensDay, we need answers as to why these common goals have not been…
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Afghanistan: “You are part of the history of this valley…”
“You are part of the history of this valley in Afghanistan, just as blood is part of the human body,” they told us. In Panjshir, Shahzia recalls the fear she felt before she gave birth to two twins and the happiness in knowing, once they were born, that she and her children were doing well. Often…
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Zakhem Exhibition: A Huge Thank You
Behind this glass… Up and down these stairs… We spent an exciting week in the heart of Shoreditch, London, in the name of art, Afghanistan, war, and healthcare. All topics that EMERGENCY cares about and focuses on in its daily promotion of a culture of peace, which enabled an enlightening collaboration with the photographer Giulio…
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“Here Are My Scars” – The Stories of Those Rescued by Open Arms
On the Open Arms vessel, our cultural mediator Bader, who helped staff with the search and rescue, listened to the terrible testimonies of the 44 people rescued from a small wooden boat on Sunday night. Among them is 16-year-old ‘A’: “I come from Mogadishu, Somalia. Before I arrived in Libya, I travelled through Ethiopia, Sudan…