2019 Annual Report

2019 ANNUAL REPORT 1 2019 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 04 ANNUAL MESSAGE 07 ABOUT US Our Mission Our Approach Our Programs Training 16 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS IN 2019 By the Numbers Where We Work In the Media Milestones Partnering for the Greater Good 30 LEADERSHIP 34 FINANCIALS 39 ANNUAL SUPPORT 54 HOW YOU CAN HELP INDONESIA INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2019 2 3 2019 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS We faced enormous challenges in 2019, extreme hunger and disease in what the helping survivors of one of the strongest United Nations has called the world’s worst hurricanes ever to hit the Caribbean while humanitarian crisis, with no end in sight. reaffirming, in our 35th year, our reputation In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for taking on the toughest longer-term our teams battling to contain the second- humanitarian missions wherever they are, no largest Ebola outbreak on record also matter what the conditions. Before the year had to conduct their lifesaving work in had ended, our teams operating in Africa, environments that included ongoing armed the Middle East, Asia and the Americas had conflict. And in South Sudan—another reached more than 8 million people in 30 country plagued by violence, where we countries affected by armed conflict, natural have provided both relief and important disaster and disease. progress toward self-reliance during our Last September, we responded in Florida, 25 years there—three International Medical North Carolina and the Bahamas to support Corps-run schools in 2019 graduated 87 survivors of Hurricane Dorian, one of the midwives and nurses, each one desperately most powerful storms ever recorded in the needed in a country with one of the world’s region. Originally deployed to Florida, our highest maternal mortality rates. USA teams demonstrated their flexibility and All of our responses in 2019 included expertise when the storm changed course training, helping to fulfill our mission to build and stalled over the Bahamas, devastating resilience in the communities we serve. As the northernmost islands. We quickly TO OUR SUPPORTERS: we help them rebuild, we also pass along changed course with it, and—working with the knowledge and skills they need to local authorities—were able to provide shape their own future in ways that foster medical care, psychological first aid, and pride, confidence and hope for a better water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) future. Training also has been key to our services to thousands of survivors. We also Even as we confront the COVID-19 response in dealing with 2020’s COVID-19 are helping North Carolina to recover from outbreak, and remains the critical element in coastal flooding and structural damage outbreak around the world, responding everything we do. caused by Dorian on the state’s Outer Banks. As we carry out our mission to respond Much of our work in 2019 was carried out in all the countries where we operate to conflict, disaster and disease, we know in demanding, difficult and often dangerous that our lifesaving work is due to the deep environments. Our team in Yemen continued generosity of our donors. We give you our while ensuring the health and safety of to provide direct assistance to more than heartfelt thanks for all that you helped us a quarter of a million civilians trapped by a accomplish in 2019. Once again, we were our health workers and those they serve, bitter civil war dragging into its fifth year. The first there, no matter where—and for that, people of Yemen continue to struggle with we wanted to keep you up to date on our you have our enduring gratitude. accomplishments—and how your support made them possible—over the past year. Robert R. Simon, M.D. Nancy A. Aossey Founder & Chairman President & CEO INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2019 4 5 2019 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS A GLOBAL OUR MISSION FIRST RESPONDER INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: A GLOBAL FIRST RESPONDER We provide training and deliver emergency healthcare, along with related services, to those affected by conflict, natural disaster or disease. We do this no matter where they may be in the world or what the conditions. We also train people in their own communities, providing them with the skills they need to recover, to chart their own path to self-reliance and to shape their own future as they become effective first responders themselves. CAMEROON INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2019 6 7 2019 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS OUR APPROACH Our Emergency Response Teams deploy fast to assist those in great need—often arriving within hours to reach those even in the most remote, challenging environments. Drawing on experience gained in build a better future through training. 35 years of responding to disasters We strengthen local health systems in more than 80 countries on six and work with community leaders, continents, our surge capacity hire and train staff locally, develop includes physicians and nurses partnerships and evaluate progress to trained in emergency medicine, ensure quality outcomes. With a staff supported by specialists in essential that numbers about 7,000 worldwide, healthcare services ranging from more than 90% of whom are recruited mental health and psychosocial locally, our strategy ensures that the support to technical expertise in knowledge and tools required to gender-based violence, nutrition, prepare for—and respond to—future water, sanitation and hygiene—all emergencies are culturally compatible of it to assist those in need. We and remain available in the community. do this because speed saves We work to ensure that if disaster lives in the initial hours following strikes again, residents can themselves SPEED DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO a disaster. As conditions ease, we be effective first responders. SAVES LIVES stay and partner with survivors to INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2019 8 9 2019 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS OUR PROGRAMS EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND HEALTH SERVICES PREPAREDNESS SUPPORT In late summer, our Emergency Response In Iraq, we supported 56 health facilities Unit deployed in response to Hurricane and 10 mobile clinics as part of our efforts to In 2019 we once again provided Dorian—first to Florida’s Atlantic Coast to provide much-needed healthcare and other assist vulnerable residents evacuated to related services to thousands of families programs designed to help safety, then to the Bahamas to support displaced in northern Iraq by armed conflict stunned survivors of Grand Bahama that plagued the region. Island reeling from the full brunt of the communities hit by disasters onto a unpredictable storm’s 180 mph-plus winds and massive destruction. With local path from relief to self-reliance. In the health services shattered, we erected WOMEN’S AND one emergency clinic, operated a second CHILDREN’S HEALTH mobile clinic to serve remote areas, and process we saved thousands of lives, In Mali, 1,224 women delivered their babies helped the island’s hospital and nine local with a skilled birth attendant present thanks clinics resume service. In all, we provided to our programs. We also provided 1,317 eased the plight of countless others a total of 1,086 medical consultations, as newborns postnatal care within three days well as access to potable water, to grateful of their birth. and brought hope for a better future island residents. to those who have lost so much. NUTRITION AND FAMILY AND FOOD SECURITY COMMUNITY HEALTH In Yemen, we provided nutrition and food In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, security assistance to 83,974 beneficiaries our Ebola Treatment Center in the town of and operated 84 sites with capacity Mangina admitted 3,331 patients between to treat moderate and severe acute December 2018 and the end of 2019. Of malnutrition. We also provided counselling these, 421 cases were confirmed and 208 of and support for 27,372 pregnant or nursing these were released as cured. women or caregivers on infant and young- child feeding. MENTAL HEALTH AND WATER, SANITATION PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT AND HYGIENE In Cameroon, our teams supported In 2019, we reached 171,183 people in 45,095 beneficiaries with mental health Afghanistan with hygiene awareness and psychosocial support issues in 2019, and promotion activities, and distributed and conducted 24,691 in psychosocial hygiene items to 6,798 individuals. support activities. TRAINING UNDERPINS ALL THAT WE DO CAMEROON INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2019 10 11 2019 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS TRAINING BAHAMAS As part of our emergency response on Grand Bahama island following Hurricane Dorian, our teams trained local healthcare staff how to deal with daunting new challenges. With basic public services— including water and electricity—knocked out in many areas, we trained 60 local FOCUSING healthcare providers on infection prevention and control measures, as well as on proper waste management. To help survivors digest ON TRAINING the enormity of their losses, we trained another 68 first responders—including local healthcare staff, social service specialists FOR 35 YEARS and police officers—on how to help local residents with self-care, psychological first aid and positive coping mechanisms. We also partnered with the Public Hospitals Authority to train 30 community leaders and their staff, as well as teachers, social workers and other service providers, on how to teach community health volunteers Beginning in 1984 with our first program, to engage and educate their communities training has been key to fulfilling our about these same issues. mission—not just helping communities recover from adversity, but helping them become stronger on their journey toward self-reliance. We continued in 2019 to emphasize training in all of our programs. WE TRAINED 60 local healthcare providers on infection prevention and control measures. INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2019 12 13 2019 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS TRAINING SOUTH SUDAN International Medical Corps supports three midwifery schools in South Sudan that, WE TRAINED collectively, have made a major contribution in lowering both maternal and infant mortality nationally in a country that historically has 1,433 been one of the most dangerous places on earth to give birth.

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