A significant public health challenge exists, with numerous countries lacking self-contained medical units. These units are crucial for rapid deployment to preserve health services and save lives. A commitment has been made to establish functional emergency medical teams.
This involves building teams that are integrated into national response systems and have sustainable financing. Further information is available on the collective pledge made by member states, which aims to have at least one national emergency medical team in place by 2030.
. ABSTRACT This case study highlights how a refugee-led organisation of six local staff was able to sustainably provide long-term support to over 27,000 beneficiaries in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley through adoption of a structured, choice-based digital voucher and aid delivery program...
. Summary: Local organisations are typically first to respond in a crisis, yet continue to receive only a small share of humanitarian funding directly. This is often attributed to capacity or trust, but a closer look points to a structural gap instead: the accountability infrastr...
. By Lara Cooper Fourteen tons of requested medical aid arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal, over the weekend to support communities impacted by last month’s flash floods. More than 1,300 people were killed when catastrophic flooding swept through entire communities in northern Nepal and...
Sitting alone in a tepee-like shelter made from sticks collected by a dry African riverbed in 1974, 24-year-old Debbie Dortzbach stitched the words of Psalm 34:4 onto a white bandage from her captors’ helicopter first aid kit. The phrase “I sought the Lord and he heard me” altern...
Liberty University students who got up for an early class on September 11, 2001, may have skimmed a copy of the Liberty Champion at breakfast in the dining hall. If they did, they may have read about the university’s Spiritual Emphasis Week, or about renovations to the major acad...
“We inherited two worlds—one of hope to which we were bred; one of a certain disillusion which we had discovered for ourselves.” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote those words of the 1920s, speaking to a generation that had served in World War I and often followed it with hedonistic exces...
Growing up, I often heard one statement in my church youth group: “The most loving thing you can do is tell someone the truth.” The statement became especially potent whenever we gathered for a weekend at the Youth Evangelism Conference in my home state of Oklahoma to be reminded...
This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Jennifer Anderson, Feed Them Well: A Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident Eaters for Life (Flatiron Books, 2026) The process of teaching kids what to eat—and how—can force us to address our own sometimes-dysfunctio...
. OPERATIONAL CONTEXT 466,709 People affected 101,416 Uninhabitable homes Colombia continues to face a large-scale humanitarian emergency following the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck San José del Palmar, Chocó, on 10 August. As of 9 September, at least 466,709 people had be...
Countries: World, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic . Ongoing wars, protracted conflicts and recurring natural disasters have driven the number of people in need of aid to record levels. At the same time, the global humanitarian system is strugg...
