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Dr Suny joined Medair’s Emergency Response Team in Honduras to conduct assessments in remote communities. She shares her experience of the double disaster.

In August 2014, our Global Emergency Response Team arrived in the city of Zakho in northern Iraq.

Chaos has a way of putting on a show and garnering every ounce of our attention if we let it. Once it takes centre stage, chaos works quickly to deplete our energy reserves and distract us from goodness around us.

Today all Yezidis are remembering what they were doing; who they lost; who is still missing; and what has changed forever.

Your gifts touched the lives of thousands of people in Mozambique this year after two devastating cyclones struck the country in a matter of weeks.

Even in the midst of humanitarian response, Medair’s team of aid workers seek opportunities to find better and new ways to assist people affected by conflict or natural disaster. We often work in partnerships to conduct research, to pilot studies, and to support policies that integrate new approaches into humanitarian interventions.

Between March and April 2019, Mozambique was hit by two major disasters in just 42 days. According to the United Nations, more than two million people in Mozambique were affected by two major storm systems: Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth.

1,300 families have received a new, earthquake-resilient home that will help better protect them against future disasters. More than 600 local construction workers were trained in earthquake-resilient building techniques. With this knowledge, communities can build and rebuild homes back safer for years to come.

“I call no place home,” says Hawas, an Iraqi man who was forced to flee his home in Zummar, Iraq because of the conflict in his country.