2020 ANNUAL REPORT DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 05 ANNUAL MESSAGE 07 ABOUT US Our Mission Our Approach Our Programs Training 16 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS IN 2020 By the Numbers Where We Work In the Media Milestones Partnerships COVID-19 Response 34 LEADERSHIP 38 FINANCIALS 42 ANNUAL SUPPORT 62 HOW YOU CAN HELP INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2020 2 3 2020 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS TO OUR SUPPORTERS: We are extremely proud to report on our accomplishments in 2020—one of the most intense and challenging years in our history, dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This worldwide public health emergency tested us at every level. Drawing on our extensive experience in more than needs for maternal and child healthcare, nutrition, 80 countries and supported by the unprecedented clean water, mental health—and so much more. generosity of our donors, we prepared early In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and—despite worldwide shelter-in-place we helped end two separate Ebola outbreaks orders, travel bans and fast-closing borders— in 2020, including the world’s second-largest managed to provide lifesaving assistance and outbreak of the disease. Yet despite this victory, training to those in need on five continents. in the early months of 2021, we confronted further outbreaks of the deadly disease in the DRC and But in this year like no other, our biggest task was in West Africa. Our work clearly is not done. right here at home in the United States. We supported scores of hospitals, nursing homes, healthcare clinics In early August 2020, when a massive warehouse and community centers in nine states and Puerto explosion at the Port of Beirut ripped through the Rico, as the pandemic threatened to overwhelm Lebanese capital, killing more than 220, injuring major parts of our health system. As 2020 came to thousands and displacing an estimated 300,000, our a close, America accounted for about one-quarter in-country team responded immediately, bringing of the world’s 92 million confirmed cases and one- help to survivors and support to health facilities. We fifth of its 2 million confirmed deaths from COVID-19 also sent mobile medical units to neighborhoods (those numbers are of course higher today). near the blast site, providing care to people affected by the crisis and reducing pressure on Working closely with state and local authorities on overburdened health centers near the explosion. such an unprecedented scale served as an up-close reminder of how critically important our frontline And throughout the year, we maintained our health workers and first responders are during assistance to thousands of innocent civilians emergencies—how much they can achieve, and caught up in two of the century’s great what a difference they can make. The pandemic has humanitarian tragedies: the seemingly endless reinforced the critical role that healthcare heroes wars in Syria and Yemen. Throughout years play in communities large and small, whether it’s in of armed conflict, we have helped millions of underserved areas of South Los Angeles, in New people, saved thousands of lives and helped to York City boroughs like Queens and Brooklyn, or ease immeasurable suffering through training further afield—in places like South Sudan, where we and healthcare programs for the underserved. helped set up the country’s first infectious disease Though 2020 was full of challenges, our hearts treatment unit in Juba, the country’s capital. have been lifted by the extraordinary levels of And despite the pandemic’s relentless demands, our support we have received. We are very grateful to staff of more than 7,500 in 30 countries around the our donors, volunteers and staff, whose unwavering world made sure that our other programs continued commitment during testing times has boosted to fulfill their tasks of addressing longstanding our efforts and elevated our achievements. Robert R. Simon, M.D. Nancy A. Aossey Founder & Chairman President & CEO PHILIPPINES INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2020 4 5 2020 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS OUR MISSION 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. LEBANON INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2020 6 7 2020 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO BURUNDI OUR APPROACH BECAUSE We draw on experience gained in 36 years of responding to SPEED disasters in more than 80 countries on six continents. Our surge capacity includes physicians and nurses trained in emergency medicine, supported by specialists in essential healthcare services that range from mental health and psychosocial support to technical expertise in gender- SAVES based violence, nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene. We maintain our capacity to respond quickly because speed saves lives in the initial hours following a disaster. As conditions ease, we stay on and partner with survivors to build a better, more independent future for those LIVES we’re helping. The key to our approach is training— an essential component of all our programs, used to transfer the latest knowledge and skills into local hands, to help ensure a brighter future. We strengthen local health systems and work with community leaders, Our emergency response teams hire and train local staff, develop partnerships and deploy fast to assist those in great evaluate progress to ensure quality outcomes. With a staff that numbers more than 7,500 worldwide, need—often arriving within hours more than 90% of whom are recruited locally, our strategy ensures that the knowledge and tools required to prepare to reach those even in the most for—and respond to—future emergencies are culturally compatible and remain available in the community. We remote, challenging environments. work to ensure that if disaster strikes again, residents can themselves be their own first responders. INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2020 8 9 2020 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND WATER, SANITATION PREPAREDNESS AND HYGIENE In 2020, we launched the largest In Cameroon’s Far North region, we built emergency response in our history, new or restored 559 sources of potable working to prevent and control the water as part of a program to provide the spread of COVID-19. That response country with more clean, safe and accessible reached each of the 30 countries water supplies and sanitation facilities. OUR PROGRAMS and territories where we conducted our lifesaving programming. Our WOMEN’S AND response was most robust in the United States. Before the year was over, we CHILDREN’S HEALTH had supported scores of hospitals, After a decade of unrelenting nursing homes, healthcare clinics and destruction and bloodshed that has community centers in nine states and left Syria’s health system on its knees, Puerto Rico, where local resources had we treated 87,094 children under 5 been overwhelmed by the sheer volume for acute respiratory infections. of cases. Globally, we distributed more than 23 million infection prevention FAMILY AND and control (IPC) items and personal protective equipment (PPE), including COMMUNITY HEALTH masks, gloves and gowns. In South Sudan, we played a key role in the country’s COVID-19 response, serving as co-lead of the national Case NUTRITION AND Management and Infection Protection FOOD SECURITY SOUTH SUDAN and Control Working Group, and co- In Mali, we screened 113,102 children manager of the country’s largest infectious for malnutrition as part of an effort to disease unit (IDU) capable of treating identify and refer malnourished children, COVID-19 patients. We also screened Though 2020 was in many ways an as well as pregnant and nursing women, more than 400,000 people in three for treatment early, before they develop United Nations-administered sanctuaries extraordinary year, our dedication complications. known as protection-of-civilian (PoC) to provide quality programming sites, located in Juba, Malakal and Wau. MENTAL HEALTH AND remained unchanged, as did our PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT HEALTH SERVICES SUPPORT strategy of working together with As part of our programs in Lebanon that offer mental health care services In Sudan’s Darfur region, where we have leaders of communities hit by disaster for Syrian refugees and other worked since 2004 to help people caught up vulnerable groups, we provided 65,909 in ongoing tribal conflict and intercommunal to help them chart their journey from consultations that included either mental violence, we supported 88 health facilities, health or psychosocial support care. rehabilitating 32 of these in 2020. relief to self-reliance. TRAINING UNDERPINS ALL THAT WE DO INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 2020 10 11 2020 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS TRAINING THE HEART OF WHAT YEMEN When members of an International Medical WE DO Corps healthcare team first visited the village of Dayan, several hours’ drive from the capital, Sana’a, the public health conditions they found were alarming. PHILIPPINES Malaria was rampant, fueled by swamps surrounding the village that provided ideal breeding grounds for mosquitos. Since our first response in 1984, training has been at the With the nearest available healthcare center of our work. We consider it essential to our mission hours away, our team realized there was of helping communities recover from adversity and take only one option to save lives in Dayan greater control of their destiny as they move toward self- and other nearby villages: work with reliance. In 2020, training was more important than ever, as community leaders to establish their own we provided those we serve with the skills and knowledge healthcare network to treat and manage needed to prevent and control COVID-19 infections in the outbreak.