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

People displaced by climate crisis to testify in first-of-its-kind hearing in US. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear how climate is driving forced migration across the Americas. Communities under imminent threat from rising sea level, floods and other extreme weather will testify in Washington on Thursday, as the region’s foremost human rights body holds a first-of-its-kind hearing on how climate catastrophe is driving forced migration across the Americas. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hear from people on the frontline of the climate emergency in Mexico, Honduras, the Bahamas and Colombia, as part of a special hearing sought by human rights groups in Latin America, the US and the Caribbean.    A growing number of migrants and refugees trying to seek sanctuary in the US and other countries are being displaced by hurricanes, heatwaves and drought, as well as slow-onset climate disasters such as ocean acidification, coastal erosion and desertification. The witnesses will include Higinio Alberto Ramírez from Honduras, who last year suffered life-altering injuries when a fire razed a detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, killing 43 migrants from Latin America. Ramírez is from Cedeño, a coastal fishing town that is disappearing under rising sea levels, and was trying to reach the US to pay off family debts after tidal waves destroyed the shrimp nursery where he and his father worked. “The case of the Ramírez family is a tragic reminder that forced migration is not an issue for the future. Sea levels have been rising due to climate change for decades. States and humanitarian systems must catch up and ensure that protections are in place,” said Gretchen Kuhner, director of the Mexico based Institute for Women in Migration (Imumi), one of the groups which requested the hearing. The climate crisis poses an existential threat to coastal communities such as Cedeño, where at least 300 metres of land – and with it scores of hotels, restaurants, shops, schools and homes – have been submerged over the past few years amid increasingly frequent and destructive tidal floods and storm surges.Honduras, and the vast majority of countries and island nations in the region, have contributed minimally to the greenhouse gases driving global heating. Yet they are among some of the world’s most vulnerable, thanks to a mix of geography, poverty, political instability and limited access to climate adaptation and mitigation measures.....read on    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/hearing-forced-migration-climate-change-us-central-america

People displaced by climate crisis to testify in first-of-its-kind hearing in US. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear how climate is driving forced migration across the Americas. Communities under imminent threat from rising sea level, floods and other extreme weather will testify in Washington on Thursday, as the region’s foremost human rights body holds a first-of-its-kind hearing on how climate catastrophe is driving forced migration across the Americas. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hear from people on the frontline of the climate emergency in Mexico, Honduras, the Bahamas and Colombia, as part of a special hearing sought by human rights groups in Latin America, the US and the Caribbean.    A growing number of migrants and refugees trying to seek sanctuary in the US and other countries are being displaced by hurricanes, heatwaves and drought, as well as slow-onset climate disasters such as ocean acidification, coastal erosion and desertification. The witnesses will include Higinio Alberto Ramírez from Honduras, who last year suffered life-altering injuries when a fire razed a detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, killing 43 migrants from Latin America. Ramírez is from Cedeño, a coastal fishing town that is disappearing under rising sea levels, and was trying to reach the US to pay off family debts after tidal waves destroyed the shrimp nursery where he and his father worked. “The case of the Ramírez family is a tragic reminder that forced migration is not an issue for the future. Sea levels have been rising due to climate change for decades. States and humanitarian systems must catch up and ensure that protections are in place,” said Gretchen Kuhner, director of the Mexico based Institute for Women in Migration (Imumi), one of the groups which requested the hearing. The climate crisis poses an existential threat to coastal communities such as Cedeño, where at least 300 metres of land – and with it scores of hotels, restaurants, shops, schools and homes – have been submerged over the past few years amid increasingly frequent and destructive tidal floods and storm surges.Honduras, and the vast majority of countries and island nations in the region, have contributed minimally to the greenhouse gases driving global heating. Yet they are among some of the world’s most vulnerable, thanks to a mix of geography, poverty, political instability and limited access to climate adaptation and mitigation measures.....read on   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/hearing-forced-migration-climate-change-us-central-america                                                

 Doctors know banning fossil fuel ads is a matter of life or death Melissa Lem & Samantha Green | Opinion | March 13th 2024 When health-care professionals joined MP Charlie Angus on stage to announce his private member’s bill to ban advertising for fossil fuels, it came as no surprise. Physicians and health-care workers lead the movement for a tobacco-style ban on fossil fuel advertising. In fact, over 35 health organizations in Canada — representing over 700,000 health-care professionals — called on the federal government to ban fossil fuel advertising nearly two years ago. This is because we see the harm fossil fuel pollution inflicts on our patients’ health first-hand. Countless studies link burning oil and gas to increases in childhood asthma, cancers, worse mental health, adverse pregnancy outcomes and premature death. To us, these statistics are people with names and faces who walk into our clinics each week. Outside the health-care community, Angus’s Bill C-372has drummed up some controversy. This is also no great surprise. We saw resistance from the tobacco industry when the health-care community first proposed banning cigarette advertising. In fact, the parallels with the tobacco fight are uncanny. Like tobacco, fossil fuels are a leading cause of death. Fossil fuel air pollution is responsible forone in seven premature deathsin Canada. These toxic emissions drive higher rates of disease that increase costs in an already overburdened health-care system. Canada now has the world’s highest rate of new childhood asthma cases after Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. When we also take into account fossil fuels’ lead role in driving the climate crisis, their health impacts balloon. In the past few years, Canada has experienced deadly heat waves, wildfire smoke, storms, floods and droughts. As global temperatures continue to rise, people in Canada will experience escalating harm and risks from extreme weather, increased vector-borne disease and other effects of the heating climate. Those at highest risk are children and babies, elderly, disabled, Indigenous and racialized people and those living in poverty.  But like the tobacco industry, oil and gas giants have fought hard to undermine the science linking their products to these deadly effects. Oil and gas companies generated cutting-edge research linking their products to climate change as far back as 1954.....NOW AIN'T THAT THE TRUTH!.....read on   https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/03/13/opinion/doctors-know-banning-fossil-fuel-ads-matter-life-death