If you’re a parent, you know the helpless feeling when your child gets sick. You would do anything to protect them from pain—we all would. Fortunately for us in the West, our children have 24-hour access to the best doctors and medicine money can provide. We don’t...
Situated in between several refugee communities in Ankawa is northern Iraq’s first-ever mobile medical clinic. On any given day, the clinic serves 75-100 patients in just a few hours. Today, however, over 70 patients were seen in less than two hours . . . men, women,...
For the thousands of children around the world, malaria is a very real enemy. Malaria keeps students out of the classroom, cripples health, and in far too many tragic cases, causes death. Every 60 seconds, a child dies of malaria. Although malaria is entirely...
When attempting to explain the crisis in Syria, words only go so far. The gut-wrenching descriptions of the violence millions of families have experienced and the staggering statistics of deaths and of those fleeing into overcrowded refugee camps convey an...
In Syria, access to medical care is virtually nonexistent. Hospitals and clinics have been forced to move underground, having become direct targets of the regime army. Doctors have fled for their lives, knowing that if they are found aiding civilians, they will be...