Celebrating five charities and decades of global impact
At Global Impact, we’ve spent the last six and a half decades working alongside leading charities that are experts at addressing global causes. From helping refugees after World War II to providing care at the height of the AIDS epidemic, our charity partners have spent decades responding to and shaping history; honing their expertise to […]
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: A Young Child’s Road to Recovery from Moderate Acute Malnutrition
Sixteen-month-old Halimo Said Bashiir lives with her parents and four siblings at the Sheikh Omar camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Originally from Afgooye in the Lower Shebelle region of Somalia, Halimo’s family was forced to move to the IDP camp due to security concerns. With this move, her family fell on hard times, since […]
Champion disaster relief charities through your workplace
Florida. Pakistan. The Horn of Africa. Ukraine. Afghanistan. If you’re keeping up with the news cycle, it seems like there’s a new emergency popping up at the forefront faster than we can even process the emergency that occurred before it. And with so many disasters happening around the world, it can feel flustering to decide […]
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INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: A Team Effort Helps Save a Two-Week-Old Infant in Haiti
When a massive earthquake rocked Haiti on August 14, more than 650,000 people were left in need of emergency humanitarian assistance, while more than half of healthcare facilities were damaged or destroyed. This is the story of how a team of medical volunteers worked with two local nurses, our security and logistics teams, and one local hospital to save a 16-day-old baby.
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: Solar Power Brings Clean Water to Refugees
In 2020, International Medical Corps used diesel-fueled trucks to deliver approximately 315,000 liters of clean water daily across five refugee camps in Nigeria. Clean water is essential for drinking, cooking, sanitation and hygiene, which helps to prevent malnutrition, infection and disease. Though our assistance was invaluable, delivering water by truck is not cost-effective or energy-efficient. […]
Having fled war, Syrian mothers give birth during a deadly pandemic
Original post published May 6, 2021 on the International Medical Corps website. This week we’re featuring our Charity Alliance partner International Medical Corps! Learn about the vital work they’re doing to support Syrian refugee mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic in this guest blog post. Since the 1947–49 Palestine war, Jordan has been a refuge for […]
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: Last-Mile Delivery During a Pandemic
As the global COVID-19 vaccine rollout gets underway, humanitarian organizations such as International Medical Corps are using their expertise in community health to mount effective vaccination campaigns in the countries where they work. With our decades of experience managing outbreaks of infectious disease—from helping to eradicate wild polio in Africa, to supporting cholera vaccinations in […]
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: Community Health Workers in DRC Help Stop Spread of Disease
To view this story on our website and see accompanying pictures, please click here: https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/story/community-health-workers-in-drc-help-stop-spread-of-ebola-and-covid-19/ “When the Ebola outbreak was declared, community health workers came to my house to talk to me about Ebola prevention, but I did not believe I was at risk and I strongly resisted,” says Mayongezo, a man who lives in […]
The numbers behind COVID-19 response with International Medical Corps
Every day, Americans rely on the numbers of the global coronavirus pandemic to understand the fundamentals: growth, threat, duration and impact. We look to numbers of those infected, those recovered and passed, hospital capacity, number of ventilators and masks needed or delivered that day, the inventory numbers at our nearby grocery stores, the clocks to […]
