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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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“Beyond the Beach”: Full Documentary Film Available Now
EMERGENCY is happy to announce that Dover Street Entertainment’s documentary film, “Beyond the Beach – The Hell and the Hope”, is now available on Amazon Prime Video across the UK, US and Italy following its world premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. “Beyond the Beach” follows EMERGENCY’s humanitarian projects in Afghanistan, in Iraqi Kurdistan, and…
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We Miss You, Gino
Gino Strada was a man of peace, turning medical gestures into acts of equality and justice. Striving, in every idea and each project, for the rights of all. We miss you Gino. Thank you. Gino Strada, 1948-2021. — Illustration by George Butler.
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Gino Would Have Been 75 Today
Our founder Gino always worked to ease the suffering of others. He did so for a simple reason: he thought it was the right thing to do. Today he would have been 75 years old.
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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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To Gino Strada, in Loving Memory.
It has been one year since we lost Dr Gino Strada, the founder of EMERGENCY, the war surgeon, the peace activist, the man. … He had a boundless belief in humanity and abhorred inequality. He chose medicine as the means to express that humanity, devoting himself to his practice and, above all, to his patients. …
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Today, 13 August, marks one year since Gino left us.
Of all the notes left on the gate at his memorial last August, there was one that read: “Thank you Gino, now rest. We will go on.” It was tied to the bars along with many others, full of affection and gratitude, but it had something different: it was somehow looking to the future. That note…
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BBC Last Word Celebrates Gino Strada
“He was absolutely dedicated to helping humanity. His whole life was dedicated to that one cause….He was somebody that believed in the end of war. He believed that, as a surgeon, he had to find the root cause of the problem for his patients, and the root cause of that problem was war – and…
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Gino Strada. 1948-2021: The New York Times Obituary
War surgeon, founder of EMERGENCY, and our driving force. His obituary in The New York Times today.
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We Love You Gino.
Our beloved Gino died this morning. He was the founder, surgeon, Executive Director, the soul of EMERGENCY. “Patients always come first.” A sense of justice, lucidity, rigour, vision: these were the things that were immediately apparent in Gino. And if you got to know him better, you could see that he knew how to dream,…