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Awards
International
Medical
Corps
$2.3
Million
for
Humanitarian
Relief
Programs
in
Africa,
Middle
East
Jaya
Vadlamudi
Senior
Communications
Officer
jvadlamudi@InternationalMedicalCorps.org
+1
310.826.7800
March
1,
2012
-
Los
Angeles,
Calif.
International
Medical
Corps
will
scale
up
health
care
and
nutrition
programs
for
vulnerable
communities
across
the
Middle
East
and
Northern
and
Eastern
Africa
with
a
$2.3
million
gift
from
GE.
GEs
tremendously
generous
support
will
enable
us
to
reach
more
communities
in
Libya,
Lebanon,
Yemen,
as
well
as
East
Africa
with
lifesaving
health
services,
nutrition,
and
training
programs,
said
Nancy
A.
Aossey,
President
&
CEO
of
International
Medical
Corps.
With
vulnerable
communities
in
Libya
and
throughout
the
Middle
East
needing
critical
assistance,
and
with
the
ongoing
drought
and
hunger
emergency
ravaging
East
Africa,
GE's
timely
award
will
help
us
expand
vital
health
care
and
training
services
in
both
regions.
GE
is
proud
to
support
the
mission
and
work
of
International
Medical
Corps
with
this
donation,
said
Bob
Corcoran,
Vice
President
Corporate
Citizenship,
GE.
Our
hope
is
that
the
funds
will
enable
positive
change
for
health
care
and
nutrition
for
some
of
the
most
vulnerable
populations
in
the
world
today.
Having
provided
a
comprehensive
emergency
response
in
Libya
since
the
outbreak
of
conflict
one
year
ago,
International
Medical
Corps
is
now
working
with
the
Libyan
Ministry
of
Health
to
help
support
and
rebuild
the
damaged
health
care
system.
With
GEs
support,
International
Medical
Corps
will
focus
on
improving
access
to
basic
primary
health
care
services
through
static
and
mobile
clinics
to
reach
displaced
and
other
affected
communities.
International
Medical
Corps
will
continue
to
recruit
medical
staff,
with
a
focus
on
nurses
and
midwives,
to
fill
critical
staffing
gaps
and
conduct
on-the-job
training
for
health
care
staff.
Beginning
in
April
2011,
Lebanon
witnessed
an
influx
of
some
5,000
Syrians
refugees
into
northern
Lebanon.
According
to
the
United
Nations,
there
are
more
than
6,000
displaced
people
concentrated
primarily
in
the
North
and
residing
mostly
with
host
families
in
difficult
circumstances.
GEs
contribution
allows
International
Medical
Corps
to
deliver
health
services
through
clinics
and
mobile
medical
units
and
provide
emergency
psychological
first
aid
trainings
to
frontline
responders.
Children
in
Yemen
have
been
particularly
hard
hit
by
food
insecurity
which
has
been
further
exacerbated
by
recent
political
instability.
International
Medical
Corps
will
establish
two
stabilization
centers
to
treat
and
manage
acute
malnutrition
and
conduct
community
outreach
and
nutrition
education.
Due
to
the
ongoing
drought
and
hunger
emergency
in
East
Africa,
nearly
a
million
Somalis
have
already
streamed
across
borders
to
neighboring
countries
including
Ethiopia
and
Kenya
in
search
of
basic
necessities.
Having
worked
in
the
region
since
1991,
International
Medical
Corps
teams
on-the-ground
deployed
immediately
to
reach
severely
malnourished
people
with
lifesaving
nutrition
interventions
in
Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia and Kenya. True to the organizations mission, teams are simultaneously implementing training programs for local health workers to maximize the impact and sustainability of their relief efforts. With support from GE, International Medical Corps will be able to extend its reach into refugee camps for Somalis in Ethiopia and Kenya as well as local communities hard-hit by the hunger emergency in Somalia and Somaliland. International Medical Corps will focus on treatment and management of acute malnutrition in children under five and pregnant women, construction of latrines and wash rooms as well as promotion of hygiene, and provision of psychosocial support and counseling to GBV survivors, targeting areas in highest need. International Medical Corps will also provide primary health care services in Somalia through mobile and static clinics and address community-level water, sanitation and hygiene issues. Since its inception nearly 30 years ago, International Medical Corps mission has been consistent: relieve the suffering of those impacted by war, natural disaster and disease, by delivering vital health care services that focus on training. This approach of helping people help themselves is critical to returning devastated populations to self-reliance. For more information visit: www.InternationalMedicalCorps.org. Also see us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works. For more information, visit the company's website at www.ge.com.