EMERGENCY provides free, sustainable, high-quality healthcare to victims of war, poverty and landmines, alongside building hospitals, and training and employing local people to be medics.
Stories that epitomise our work:
While her family were having dinner in the garden, Hussna was hit in the head with a bullet when she was only 1 years old. She was taken to EMERGENCY’s hospital in Kabul where she received free, high-quality surgery. She is alive and well but the bullet remains – it was too dangerous to remove.
When Beniella was four, she was diagnosed with a heart condition. Thanks to EMERGENCY, she was flown from her home in Burundi to our Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Sudan, where she received free, high-quality surgery, and post-operative care, before being flown home and receiving life-long medication and check-ups.
Samad lost both of his legs to a landmine explosion when he was a child. Thanks to EMERGENCY, he received prostheses and life-long physiotherapy sessions before enrolling in one of our professional development courses where he learned to sew. He then set up a tailoring workshop which EMERGENCY helped him open.
What makes EMERGENCY unique?
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Training and employing local people. 97% of our colleagues in the field are locals.
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The exceptional quality of healthcare and training. We provide the same level of training, healthcare, health standards and hospital infrastructure as one would expect in a high-income country.
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Long-term, sustainable focus. Through building hospitals and training local people to be medics, all of EMERGENCY projects aim to handover running of the hospital to the local community.