AMI Foundation was founded in 1984, with Mankind as its main focus. Since 1987, it has been in 82 countries, having sent hundreds of volunteers and tons of aid (medicines and medical equipment, food, clothes, vehicles, generators, etc.). In the international arena, AMI carries out three large kinds of interventions: Emergency Missions (Humanitarian Aid), Development Missions with expatriate teams and International Projects in Partnership with Local Organizations, aiming to adjust its operation to the characteristics and needs of the context. With all of its international projects, AMI has benefited in 2020 a total of 2,081,156 people, of which 98,450 directly and 1 982 706 indirectly.Implementation of the Project/Activity .......In 2020, AMI developed a total of 25 international projects, with 22 organizations in 14 countries, of which, 1 development mission with expatriate teams in the field (Guinea-Bissau), 2 humanitarian missions (Mozambique and Uganda) in partnership with local organizations, 13 International Projects in Partnership with Local Organizations in 9 countries and 9 actions to fight Covid-19.
In Uganda, the Project “Talk2Me: Awareness and Promotion of the Best Practices in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Ugandan Refugee Camps” was implemented between March 2019 and February 2020. The total budget was €121,176. AMI implemented an emergency mission in Beira, Mozambique, in response to Cyclone Idai, with the implementation of the project “Mangwana - Prevention of Potential Epidemic Diseases, Post Cyclone Idai”, composed of 2 phases: phase 1, emergency response with expatriate teams and phase 2, community intervention with a local organization. This project lasted 14 months and ended on May 31, 2020. The total budget was 162.085€. In Guinea-Bissau, the project “High Impact Interventions: Community Health in Quinara”, co-financed by UNICEF, ongoing since 2014, and which sought to contribute to the availability of health services close to pregnant women and children under 5 years of age, in the Sanitary Region of Quinara, came to an end in 2020. The 4th phase of implementation of the project took place between 10 February and 30 June 2020, counted on the collaboration of a coordination team composed of two expatriate elements (coordinator and assistant coordinator) and a local team of 6 elements and had a total budget of 57.454 €. The projects in Partnership with Local Organizations had only local teams and a total budget of nearly €400.000.
Results/Outputs/Impacts........Among other results, we highlight the training of 30 Community activists in appropriate personal and environmental prevention practices for priority infectious diseases and active case detection with referral to the health Centre, the referral of 550 cases of malaria and 322 cases of diarrhea by Community Activists to the Health Center in Mozambique; the performance of 108 sessions of youth conversations and the implementation of 490 awareness-raising sessions on sexual and reproductive health and hygiene through community agents and youth clubs, the referral of 375 people by community agents and young people informed to health centers to receive specialized medical attention or health condition assessment in Uganda; and the referral of over 500 children under 1 year for vaccination by community health workers and 293 births attended by qualified personnel in Guinea-Bissauread.......read on https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/humanitarian-aid-and-development-aid-projects-14-countries