The Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS) is a globally recognized voluntary standard setting out nine commitments that organizations and individuals involved in humanitarian response use to improve the quality and effectiveness of the assistance they provide. Because…

Now in the eighth month of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it feels poignant to write about Maryna and my visit to Moldova, especially after the recent series of escalated missile attacks targeting cities across Ukraine. I sit on the couch in…

Medical Teams International provides life-saving medical care primarily in two contexts: sudden onset emergencies and protracted emergencies. Whereas sudden onset emergencies like natural disasters or armed conflicts are often well publicized, protracted emergencies are more easily forgotten and difficult to…

Imagine leaving your home, your social network, your job and most of your physical possessions behind. Or consider working extremely long hours every day for months at a time, uncertain when the frantic pace will stop. Now, picture the gravity…

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…