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From 1994 to 2024: EMERGENCY Celebrates 30 Years of Providing Free, High-Quality Care
“The hospital of Kigali is deserted. Patients, doctors, nurses, almost all have been killed. There are five of us, but we will soon be joined by others.” In 1994, in the midst of the Rwandan genocide, Dr Gino Strada and the first EMERGENCY team began to work. Together, they restored the surgical and obstetrics and…
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Our Wish for 2024
In the last 10 years, more than 28,000 migrating people have drowned in the Mediterranean. Our wish for 2024: No more indifference. No more deaths at sea. Credits Creative Agency: Ogilvy Italia President & Chief Creative Officer: Giuseppe Mastromatteo Executive Creative Directors: Lavinia Francia, Francesco Basile Client Creative Directors: Alberto Crignola, Nicolò Mondonico Head of Strategy: Luca Tapognani…
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Meet Our Amazing Colleagues at the Salam Centre
At our Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Khartoum, Sudan, the hard work of hundreds of colleagues makes our daily, life-saving care possible. Patients from 32 countries, from Burundi to Zimbabwe, have been treated here. We recently spoke with some of our colleagues about the facility and what they have achieved. PHARMACIST Mona I’ve worked…
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We can make peace come true.
Gino Strada, our founder, used to say “to create a world without war, we have to imagine it first”. So we did. We turned his words into reality, thanks to the AI. And by doing so, we wish that together, in 2023, we can make peace come true. For all. Video credits: OGILVY President…
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Nine Years On – Tragedy Continues
A humanitarian tragedy continues to unfold in the Mediterranean. Allowing people to die at sea is a choice. Allowing people to be intercepted and sent back to Libya is a choice. We take a different stance, grounded in solidarity, rights and humanity. Saving lives at sea is the right thing to do.
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It Seems Like The Most Important Thing In His Life.
Micola is sitting outside the Mobile Clinic waiting to be triaged. He holds in his hands a canvas bag containing his passport and results from previous clinical exams. He is 82 years old and arrived in Moldova after a two-day journey. He lost his wife many years ago and had no relatives in Kyiv, his…
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We Will Make The Right to Treatment a Real, Universal One – and a Precondition of Peace.
The second gruelling year of the Covid-19 pandemic is over. Dramatic events have left their mark on people all over the world. At EMERGENCY, we will always remember the moment in mid-summer when a sudden blow knocked the wind out of us. Gino Strada, the founder of EMERGENCY and person who led us together on…
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May It Be a Year of Peace, Not War.
This is the story of a mother and her tough decision . A story that many people around the world live everyday. 82.4 million people worldwide had to leave their homes, families and lives, due to persecution, war, violence, or human rights violations. A wish for 2022: may it be a year of peace, not…
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International Human Solidarity Day 2021
If we could show our solidarity with a number, it would be 11 million. If we could show our solidarity with an image, it would be this one. Hands opened out towards others. Hands to operate with, to provide care, to heal, to welcome, to give medical and surgical treatment to over 11 million people…
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#LittleAmal’s Journey is Coming to an End, But Her Story Won’t.
During her epic voyage, Little Amal discovered so many places and encountered thousands of people there to support her. Like so many who have suffered at the hands of war, she also met EMERGENCY. We provided Amal with medical care and welcomed her to Casa Emergency, where she played with other children and learned about…