41 Facts About Medair

Medair is an international non-governmental organisation whose purpose is to relieve human suffering in some of the world's most remote and devastated places.

Medair aims to assist people affected by natural disasters and conflict to recover with dignity through the delivery of quality humanitarian aid.

Medair was co-founded in 1989 in Switzerland by a group of eight volunteers led by Dr Erik Volkmar and Dr Josiane Volkmar-Andre—both trained physicians and experienced humanitarian aid workers.

Ingram began working for Medair years prior as its Finance Director and was a member of the Executive Leadership Team.

Medair's Board is appointed or elected by members of the Medair Association.

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Medair has six other offices located in Zurich, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and the United States.

Medair recruits experienced and new relief workers with expertise in project management, health services, nutrition, water, human resources, logistics, communications and infrastructure rehabilitation.

Prospective Medair staff participate in a Relief and Rehabilitation Orientation Course .

In 2019, Medair responded to emergencies in 13 countries and to some of the worst humanitarian disasters, including the Syrian refugee crisis, the Rohingya refugee crisis, the tsunami in Indonesia, and the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo.

Medair's Building Back Better approach is used in the recovery phase to help affected communities safeguard against future disasters.

Medair says they support local health clinics by training and supervising health clinic staff and providing them with essential medicines and supplies.

Medair has been assisting refugees affected by the Syrian crisis since 2012 and the Rohingya crisis since 2017, as well as the large numbers of displaced people as a result of instability in Iraq and South Sudan.

Medair establishes emergency health clinics for displaced people and refugees in places like Iraq, Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, and in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh where the influx of people overwhelms the capacity of local health services.

Medair provides safe drinking water and latrines to communities and promotes safe hygiene practices.

Medair provides families in crisis with cash assistance to improve their temporary living conditions and assist with the cost of medical care.

Medair uses GIS mapping technology to help identify and track refugee communities in Lebanon.

Medair says they use cloud-based solutions and online live dashboards that connect teams globally—no matter how remote—and distributes relevant information more easily to those who need it.

Medair worked to get medical centres running again and provided reconciliation seminars.

Medair brought in psychiatrists to provide trauma counseling for both Hutus and Tutsis.

Medair spent over a decade in Uganda—from 1999 to 2010—making it one of Medair's longest running programmes.

Medair worked with people living in camps for internally displaced persons at the height of the crisis.

Later, Medair helped these people resettle into their home villages again.

Medair found the greatest needs to be water, sanitation, food, and shelter.

Medair contributed to the reconstruction of remote, mountainous villages damaged or destroyed during the earthquake.

Medair has worked in South Sudan since 1992 and is one of the most active humanitarian relief organisations in the country.

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In 2010, Medair made headlines for a study conducted with partner NGO, Save the Children, which revealed high rates of malnutrition in Akobo, South Sudan.

Medair continues to be on the frontlines of disease outbreaks, including the measles outbreak in 2019.

Medair has assembled emergency shelter and hygiene kits, although access to the affected coastal communities of Tiburon Peninsula was very difficult.

In 2012, Medair staff were abducted in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province.

Medair worked in Badakhshan from 2000 to 2012 and left a long-term impact in the province, having improved access to water and sanitation, expanded and upgraded the local health care system, and carried out life-saving health and nutrition services in very remote communities.

In 2012, Medair sent emergency teams to Lebanon and Jordan to respond to the flood of refugees arriving from Syria.

Medair'slter was an urgent priority in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley where winters can be harsh.

Medair distributed emergency shelter kits and provided families with wood-burning stoves, blankets, and mattresses.

Medair continues to support Syrian refugees living in Lebanon and Jordan today, and expanded programming into Syria in 2015.

Medair stayed in the Philippines until 2018 to help communities recover.

In 2001, Medair became the first European NGO to obtain ISO 9001:2000 worldwide certification—a family of international quality management standards and guidelines normally applied to industry.

Medair was the first member of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International .

In 2013, Medair joined the global Integral Alliance—a network of Christian relief and development agencies that facilitates collaboration and unity among similar humanitarian organisations to increase the capacity and quality of disaster response.

Medair is a member of EU-CORD, a network of European Christian humanitarian organisations that work cooperatively.

Medair's offices in Switzerland have received the ZEWO seal of approval, which is a Swiss label that identifies non-profit organisations who spend funds responsibly.

In 2019, Medair was awarded full Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability certification for its principled, accountable, and high-quality humanitarian action.