PROFILE: Gino Strada, Founder of EMERGENCY
Winner of the Right Livelihood Award 2015 "for his great humanity and skill in providing outstanding medical and surgical services to the victims of conflict and injustice."
Gino Strada’s RLA 2015 acceptance speech, Full Text
Here's the complete text of Gino Strada's acceptance speech at the Right Livelihood Award 2015 (the "Alternative Nobel Prize") ceremony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUot4EHauEk Honourable Members of the Parliament, honourable members of the Swedish Government, members of the RLA Foundation, fellow Laureates,…
GILES DULEY: Documenting The Lives Saved By EMERGENCY
"I can think of no other organisation that is so truly unique and effective in helping injured civilians caught up in conflict and those affected by the extreme poverty caused by war."
SIERRA LEONE: New First Aid Post in Lokomasama
Sierra Leone still needs us: the epidemic has made the already weak health system even more precarious.
LIBYA: Civilian Victims in a Borderless War
Mousa and Mohamed are just two of the many war victims that we treat every single day in our hospitals. They too are the civilian victims of a borderless war.
UPDATE FROM THE FIELD: SIERRA LEONE
In our hospitals, the concept of "care" goes beyond the medical act.
UPDATE FROM THE FIELD: AFGHANISTAN
"They're not just numbers, statistics or "collateral damage". They're people. And that's how they should be seen, always."