Even in War, Something Powerful Endures: Love
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.
‘We have shared lives. We are born together, live together and end together.’
Iraq: Finally a Hand That Fits My Body
‘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?
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.
They were asking me if this was really Italy
That is their right, as it is for any other human being.
Another achievement for our Regional Programme in Africa
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.
WAR REFUSES RULES
We ask Europe to act immediately to avoid another war and to categorically refuse any support for military operations.
For a More Just, Supportive and Human New Year
Best wishes to all for a more just, supportive and human new year. We can achieve it together.
Afghanistan: ‘If Other People Have Done It Before, So Can You!
I would often tell myself, ‘If other people have done it before, so can you!’ and in the end I really did it.
