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EMERGENCY Breaks Down Walls By Building Them

February 28, 2020
Maddalena Migliori
Sudan

📌 As our President Rossella Miccio once wrote, there are walls, and then there are walls: walls of exclusion, tearing people apart, but also walls of inclusion, bringing people together, defeating differences and discrimination. EMERGENCY's hospitals are made of walls,…

‘I Can’t Begin To Describe EMERGENCY.’

February 25, 2020
Maddalena Migliori
Sudan

There are people who dedicate themselves to this organisation for years. Laura is one of them. She’s been with us since 2009. Laura is a nurse. We met her in a ward at the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery. What she said took…

Even in War, Something Powerful Endures: Love

February 14, 2020
Maddalena Migliori
Iraq

Today is Valentine’s Day in Iraq too, and there’s something powerful here, resisting war, violence, danger and fear. It’s called love.

‘We’re All the Same, From the Beginning Till the End’ – Hamid, the Imam Working For Peace in Ashti.

February 11, 2020
Maddalena Migliori
Iraq

‘We have shared lives. We are born together, live together and end together.’

Iraq: Finally a Hand That Fits My Body

January 29, 2020
Maddalena Migliori
Iraq

‘It’s my first time in Sulaymaniyah,’ continues Emad, who is from Mosul. ‘I had another prosthesis before, but it didn’t fit very well. This one I can really move. It feels like part of my body. This is really a hand worthy of the name. A hand that fits my body.’

Roberto, How Are You?

January 23, 2020
Maddalena Migliori
Afghanistan

I realise my plane is touching down on the runway in Italy. All I can do is repeat to myself the promise I’ve always made to our colleagues back in Afghanistan, and which I intend to keep: to return.

Living ‘Small Small’: What I Learnt On My First Mission in Sierra Leone

January 16, 2020
Maddalena Migliori
Sierra Leone

Taking things ‘small small’ sometimes makes you happier than you think. I’m certain, because I’ve felt it myself. I’ve spent so many days in Sierra Leone seeing people who are much happier than me, than us in Europe. They have barely anything, yet they’ve given me so much.

They were asking me if this was really Italy

January 16, 2020
Maddalena Migliori
Italy

That is their right, as it is for any other human being.

Afghanistan: ‘Some of the hugs they give me literally make me quiver’

January 14, 2020
Maddalena Migliori
Afghanistan

‘Some of the hugs they give me literally make me quiver’

Another achievement for our Regional Programme in Africa

January 13, 2020
Maddalena Migliori
Sudan

In October, Luca, Coordinator of our regional cardiac surgery programme, and Maria, a long-standing cardiologist at EMERGENCY, were in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, for the first heart-screening misson at the new clinic at Orotta Hospital, the only public referral centre in the whole country.