From 1994 to 2024: EMERGENCY Celebrates 30 Years of Providing Free, High-Quality Care
“The hospital of Kigali is deserted. Patients, doctors, nurses, almost all have been killed. There are five of us, but we will soon be joined by others.” In 1994, in the midst of the Rwandan genocide, Dr Gino Strada and…
Our Wish for 2024
In the last 10 years, more than 28,000 migrating people have drowned in the Mediterranean. Our wish for 2024: No more indifference. No more deaths at sea.
Testimonies from Life Support on International Migrants Day
For many people, migration means facing violence, abuse, death. In the central Mediterranean alone, over 28,000 people have disappeared since 2014 while attempting the crossing. At least 61 more people were victims of yesterday’s shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the…
Teresa Taught Us How to Make the World a Better Place
"If everyone of us did our bit, the world would be a better place without us even realising it." Let's keep doing our bit, without stopping. To build a fairer, more equitable, and peaceful world for all. Teresa Sarti Strada,…
World Refugee Day 2023
Refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs: a record 110 million people are displaced worldwide, forced to flee because of persecution, conflict, climate change and human rights violations. On World Refugee Day, we recognise the dangers and extreme difficulties that migrants face as…
161 PEOPLE RESCUED BY EMERGENCY’S SHIP LIFE SUPPORT DISEMBARK IN ORTONA
EMERGENCY completed the disembarkation of 161 people rescued between the night and morning of 25 March by the ship Life Support in three different rescue operations.
A Meeting at Our Mobile Clinic that Made Us Extremely Happy.
This is the photo we took with him: standing with a new prosthesis, his hand over his heart.
Rossella Miccio, President of EMERGENCY, for the GOLA Podcast
In the episode, our president Rossella Miccio explains the lifeline delivery service that we developed, and the long-term medical and psychological intervention we provide to vulnerable people in our healthcare facilities and mobile clinics around Italy.