World Communion Sunday may not be well known by everyone in the Christian community, but it is certainly an event that needs to be put on the Church calendar. Every year on the first Sunday in October, Christians around the…

At the end of August 2017, the Rohingya people — a minority group in Myanmar — experienced horrific violence. They fled genocide in Myanmar, surviving massacres and burning villages. Over the course of a month, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya…

Recently, we announced the closure of our Guatemala office. Although closing Medical Teams in Guatemala allows us to respond to critical crises in other locations, it is still hard to say goodbye to the Guatemalan communities and incredible staff who…

Recently we announced Medical Teams is transitioning away from its programming in Lebanon, a place where we’ve been present since 2013. For nearly a decade, Medical Teams delivered crucial care to refugees fleeing conflict in Syria and helped establish and…

Hope. For a refugee forced to leave all that he or she knows, it’s hard to have any sense of hope and even harder to hold onto it. Living in makeshift settlements, unsanitary conditions and poverty for long periods of…

Over five million children under five die each year from preventable causes. Nearly half of those deaths are babies in their first month of life. The top health threats to children are from causes we know how to prevent and…

Samira Youssef is a Program Manager with Medical Teams International in Lebanon. Samira spends her days training and overseeing staff and volunteers who serve Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley. With no formal refugee camps in Lebanon, Syrians here live…

When you see Dr. Eddah Ndabila, the medical coordinator for Medical Teams in Tanzania, dashing across Nyarugusu Health Centre with a sense of urgency as she skillfully attends to patients, it is hard to imagine she came from adversity. As…

Medical Teams has a long history of supporting the surrounding regions of Ukraine — namely Moldova, Romania and Ukraine itself — which uniquely positions us to respond to the massive Ukraine refugee crisis. The following is a brief account of…

UPDATE: As of mid-July 2022, more than total 79,000 refugees — 55,000 from DRC and 24,000 from South Sudan — have entered Uganda since January 1, 2022. They need your support now more than ever as transit and reception centers…

As global ambassador for Medical Teams, I have the distinct privilege of championing our Christian values both inside and outside the organization. In October 2021, I spoke at a symposium aimed at encouraging and equipping churches in Uganda to respond…

Medical Teams International has been partnering with Kaiser Permanente to break down barriers to COVID-19 vaccine access across the Pacific Northwest. By integrating COVID-19 vaccinations and dental services, we’re reducing vaccine hesitancy and bridging the gap in communities who have…