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Emergency Aid for Families in Famine-Hit Communities
Posted on: Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Keywords: Kenya, Africa, Environmental Justice, Water Rights, Climate Change, Famine, Emergency Relief
We have great news from our partners at Womankind Kenya!
MADRE Supporters Bring Aid to Famine Survivors
Posted on: Thursday, August 4, 2011
Keywords: Somalia, Africa, Emergency Relief, Human Rights Advocacy, Famine
An update from our partner organization in Kenya, Womankind.
Grassroots Women Mobilizing Support for Survivors of Famine
Posted on: Friday, July 29, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Emergency Relief, Kenya, Climate Change
An update from our partner organization, Womankind Kenya
Help Survivors of the Famine in Somalia
Posted on: Monday, July 25, 2011
Keywords: Kenya, Africa, Environmental Justice, Water Rights, Climate Change, Famine, Emergency Relief
Our partners in Kenya are mobilizing urgently to give life-saving aid to people suffering in the famine in East Africa.
MADRE Members Supply Anti-Cholera Kits for Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Women's Health
Your support is already helping Haitians to survive regular, torrential rains.
Project Update: Health Care for Women in Pakistan's Displacement Camps
Posted on: Friday, March 18, 2011
Keywords: Pakistan, Asia, Emergency Relief
For the millions of Pakistani people still living through the aftermath of last summer’s floods, the crisis continues. Families have been separated, and communities are struggling to rebuild. Almost 10 million of those affected are women, many still living in...
Pakistan Update: Spotlight On Women-Specific Flood Relief
Posted on: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Keywords: Pakistan, Asia, Emergency Relief, Women's Health
MADRE's ally in Pakistan, Shirkat Gah was one of the first agencies on the scene in many of the worst-hit areas. Mobile medical clinics and food distribution centers have been established, and now Shirkat Gah is focusing on women.
Pakistan: Relief from the Floods, Project Update
Posted on: Monday, August 30, 2010
Keywords: Pakistan, Emergency Relief, Environmental Justice, Asia, Water Rights
Here is an update on MADRE and Shirkat Gah flood relief efforts in Pakistan.
Photos: MADRE Partners in Haiti Organize Sit-In
Posted on: Friday, August 13, 2010
Keywords: Haiti, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Human Rights Advocacy
Early yesterday morning, MADRE partner and grassroots Haitian women's organizations KOFAVIV and FAVILEK organized a sit-in at the Haitian national palace to demand shelter for earthquake survivors and action to end the gender-based violence that is so common in the camps.
Project Update: Emergency Aid Distribution in Guatemala
Posted on: Thursday, July 8, 2010
Keywords: Guatemala, Emergency Relief, Latin America, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
In Guatemala, as many as 112,000 people were forced from their homes following a devastating volcanic eruption and tropical storm last month. In the communities where our sister organization, the Women Workers' Committee, works, an estimated 800 homes were destroyed,...
Testifying for Haitian Women's Human Rights
Posted on: Monday, June 7, 2010
Keywords: UN, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
This week, MADRE and our partners are in Geneva at the 14th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Malya Villard-Appolon, a Haitian women’s rights activist and MADRE partner who has lived in the camps...
Send Emergency Aid to Women and Families in Guatemala
Posted on: Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Keywords: Emergency Relief, Guatemala, Latin America, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
Emergency in GuatemalaSandra Gonzalez, our partner from the Women Workers' Committee near Guatemala City, called me earlier today. She sounded exhausted. Last Thursday, a volcano erupted in Guatemala, spewing rocks and lava and blanketing the capital in black ash. Just...
Conversation with Haitian Partner: Women's Clinic Providing Ongoing Treatment for Earthquake Survivors
Posted on: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
Yesterday, we had the opportunity to meet with Dr. Lise Marie Déjean, director SOFA, a MADRE sister organization in Haiti.MADRE is working with SOFA, a national Haitian women's organization, to provide medical services to earthquake survivors. SOFA and MADRE partnered...
Determining Long-Term Health Care Needs for Women in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
MADRE is continuing to partner with Circle of Health International (COHI) to support women's health volunteer teams in Fonds Parisien, Haiti.The teams are working to build and maintain a stable, sustainable response to women's health needs in the aftermath of...
Providing Tents for an Orphanage and a Women's Health Clinic in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
MADRE is working with the Feminist Solidarity Camp (a international network of women's rights organizations) to distribute supplies to women, children and families in Haiti.In Carrefour, a poor, mostly residential district in the greater metropolitain area of Port-au-Prince, our team...
Women's Health Volunteer Teams Distributing Supplies
Posted on: Friday, February 19, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
The women's health volunteer teams are still on the ground in Haiti, and the team in the clinic is seeing about 50 patients daily. The teams have been training local clinicians to ensure they are prepared to respond to needs...
Haiti: Zanmi Lasante Clinic Staff Continuing to Provide Around the Clock Care
Posted on: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Zanmi Lasante staff continue to work around the clock to provide care to the many injured and sick still arriving at Port-au-Prince's General Hospital (HUEH), as well as at their clinics and at field hospitals they set up during the...
Women's Health Delegation Working to Provide Pregnant Haitian Women with Critical Support
Posted on: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
Several teams of MADRE-supported health workers are still on the ground in Haiti. Two new volunteers arrived yesterday. The medical volunteers are working out of a local clinic and treating 350 patients each day. The women's health teams are seeing...
Tents distributed for use as health clinics and shelters in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
The Myriam Merlet, Anne Marie Coriolan and Magali Marcelin Feminist International Camp is currently working to distribute tents in Haiti. The tents will be used as both health clinics and shelters. In addition to a resource distribution center, the Camp...
Haiti: Meeting Medical Needs Around the Country
Posted on: Friday, January 29, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Equipping Medical Staff in HaitiMADRE has been working with Partners in Health to support Zanmi Lasante as they continue providing emergency care for the earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince and for those who have managed to flee the city. Through the...
Broadcasting Live from Haiti--Tune In!
Posted on: Friday, January 29, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Earlier this week, we mentioned that a network of women’s rights activists and organizations—in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the broader Latin American and Caribbean region and around the world—have come together with MADRE to launch an incredible project in response...
Notes From Our Partner in Haiti
Posted on: Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Ophelia Dahl, Executive Director of Partners in Health, arrived in Haiti on Friday, January 22 to meet with staff and volunteers and to assess Zanmi Lasante's needs for the coming weeks and months.MADRE is providing emergency support to Zanmi Lasante,...
Women's Health Delegation Working Around the Clock to Provide Emergency Care to Earthquake Survivors
Posted on: Monday, January 25, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
The women's health delegation arrived in Jimani, Dominican Republic last Tuesday, and they immediately began working around the clock to provide emergency services to the many busloads of people who had fled Haiti. The team has since arrived in Fonds...
International Feminist Solidarity in Action with Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE is part of a newly-launched effort by women’s groups to open a Feminist International Solidarity Camp on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border.This initiative will work to direct resources and to open lines of communication with Haitian women. In particular, the...
MADRE-Supported Midwife Volunteers Fill a Vital Need in Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE is supporting a delegation of midwives and maternal health practitioners. Four members of the first team of midwives and maternal health providers have arrived in the border town of Jimani, and three more are scheduled to arrive this weekend....
Haiti Earthquake Relief: MADRE's Ongoing Response
Posted on: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Over a week after the massive earthquake struck Haiti, the need for life-saving medical services remains overwhelming. Casualty estimates have risen. The death toll may be as high as 200,000 and the number of injured and homeless is in the...
Health Practitioners Mobilize to Provide Urgent Services
Posted on: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Nearly a week after the massive earthquake struck Haiti, the need for life-saving medical services is overwhelming. Casualty estimates have risen, now reflecting a death toll of 200,000, and the number of injured and homeless is in the millions.MADRE partners...
Update on Medical Professionals Traveling to Haiti
Posted on: Friday, January 15, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE continues to respond to the cataclysmic earthquake that struck Haiti this week on Tuesday January 12. MADRE is partnering with Circle of Health International (COHI) to send a team of midwives, women’s health providers and public health professionals in...
Haiti Earthquake Relief: Why Give to MADRE
Posted on: Thursday, January 14, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
In the wake of disasters like the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti, it is often comforting to see big international agencies taking charge of relief and reconstruction efforts. No doubt international agencies—with their resources, know-how, heavy machinery, and access to...
Sending Medical Professionals to Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, January 14, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE is collaborating with Partners in Health to send a team of medical personnel to Haiti. In particular, surgeons (especially trauma/orthopedic surgeons), ER doctors and nurses, and full surgical teams (including anesthesiologists, scrub and post-op nurses, and nurse anesthetists) are...
Update on Relief Efforts in Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, January 14, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE’s Emergency Medical Relief Effort is Reaching Earthquake Surviviors in Haiti. We Need Your Help to Save More Lives.You may be wondering whether MADRE is actually able to transport emergency relief given Haiti’s decimated infrastructure.We have determined that our partner...
Palestine: Gaza Emergency Relief, Project Update - Zakher Association
Posted on: Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Emergency Relief, Gaza
Shortly after the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza began in January of 2009, the Zakher Association, a Gazan women’s rights organization, reached out to MADRE to request emergency relief for the women and families in the communities where the organization...
Palestine: Gaza Emergency Relief, Project Update
Posted on: Monday, February 16, 2009
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Emergency Relief, Gaza
Just days after the Israeli airstrikes against Gaza began, MADRE was working to facilitate an emergency response to the rising crisis. Relying on a well-established partnership with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS), MADRE was able to channel support from...
Israeli military operation advancing towards PMRS head office in Gaza
Posted on: Thursday, January 15, 2009
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Emergency Relief, Gaza
An update from our sister organization in Gaza, the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS): Ramallah, 15/01/09: Today, the Israeli military operation in Gaza has entered its twentieth day. It is the heaviest and most destructive day thus far and seriously...
Haiti and Cuba: Emergency Response Update
Posted on: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Cuba, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief
After a series of storms devastated Haiti and Cuba last month, MADRE members responded. MADRE was able to send emergency aid to our partner organizations in both countries. HaitiCurrent SituationThe five back-to-back storms that hit Haiti in the span of...
Burma Emergency Response Update
Posted on: Sunday, October 5, 2008
Keywords: Burma, Emergency Relief, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
On May 2, Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Burma and caused an estimated 146,000 fatalities and over $10 billion in damages. MADRE supporters responded and MADRE was able to reach out to women and families impacted by the storm...
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