July 2022-June 2023
Fighting Drought, Hunger and Conflict in Somalia
©Medair/ Stefan Kewitz
2020-2025
MEDAIR
Medair is an international humanitarian organisation dedicated to relieving human suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places. We have funded its relief activities in Lebanon, Madagascar, Ukraine and Somalia and are currently supporting their operations in Afghanistan.
CHALLENGE
©Medair / Joost Bastmeijer
ACTION
Between July 2022 and June 2023 we supported Medair’s teams to deliver critical health, nutrition and safe drinking water to vulnerable populations in south-central Somalia.
Medair’s teams screened for and treated malnutrition in children under 5 and promoted breastfeeding and other lifesaving nutrition practices to mothers and pregnant women. The organisation supported existent health facilities in urban and rural areas by assisting with rising numbers of patients in need of critical care and provided care via mobile clinics in the remote regions of Banadir, Lower Shabelle, Middle Shabelle and Lower Juba.
IMPACT
Over an 18-month period Medair’s team provided over 510,000 people with critical health services. Our funds specifically contributed to the following:
people provided with clean drinking water
children treated for malnutrition
health facilities and mobile clinics supported
people trained on hygiene practices
19 Jun 2023
Every Refugee has a Story
To mark this World Refugee Day, we invite you to read and recognise the personal stories of those who have been forced to flee their homes and homelands. Our partners collected and shared them with us. Our shared humanity urges us to listen.
14 Jul 2022
THOUSANDS IN SOMALIA FACE ACUTE MALNUTRITION AS RAINS FAIL
The worst drought in decades is ravaging the Horn of Africa, destroying crops and driving the cost of local food out of reach of many. Medair is scaling up its response, delivering critical health, water and nutrition aid.
26 Mar 2022
Ukraine Emergency
How Medair and Médecins Sans Frontières are providing desperately needed humanitarian assistance to refugees and internally displaced people.
12 Jan 2022
Helping Afghans at home and away
With the Taliban takeover, the situation for the Afghan population continues to deteriorate. As winter approaches, rural communities will soon be isolated. We’re supporting three humanitarian organisations to ensure Afghans can access their basic needs inside and outside their homeland.
27 Sep 2021
Fighting famine in southern madagscar
Madagascar is experiencing its worst drought in 40 years; Medair is providing emergency relief to the most affected.
27 Sep 2021
SUPPORTING MASS-VACCINATION IN LEBANON
Medair is going to vaccinate around 90,000 people living in Saida, in South Lebanon
25 Jan 2021
Putting refugees on the map
Medair was the first organisation to deploy Geographic Information System technology to map refugee settlement locations in Lebanon, enabling timely coordination of on-the-ground assistance across various aid agencies.
11 Jan 2021
Why we need data science
Our new series #Driven by Data will explore how data analytics is helping fix some of the world’s most pressing issues, improving the way development actors identify problems and design tailor-made interventions to address them.
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