OUR HEALTHCARE PROJECTS

HEALTHCARE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Embrace works in regions across the Middle East to ensure high-quality healthcare is available to those from all backgrounds and walks of life. Embrace’s work in healthcare ranges from training programmes to ensure the availability of well-trained healthcare professionals, to the funding of mobile medical clinics so that medical assistance is accessible to those living in rural and remote areas.

LATEST UPDATES FROM OUR HEALTHCARE PROJECTS

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Healing the trauma of child-detention in the West Bank
Healing the trauma of child-detention in the West Bank

Experiencing arrest and imprisonment by the Israeli authorities has left many children and young people across the West Bank with profound psychological wounds. Embrace supports a Rehabilitation Programme run by East Jerusalem YMCA, providing psychological support and vocational training to help ex-detainees find hope, purpose, and a path forward. Embrace’s David McColl recently visited... 

Steadfast service continues at Gaza’s Al Ahli hospital and clinic
Steadfast service continues at Gaza’s Al Ahli hospital and clinic

Al Ahli Hospital has been a beacon of light amid the devastation in Gaza, with dedicated medical staff serving patients in great need – despite severe shortages of medicine and equipment. As a fragile ceasefire takes hold, its role will continue to be pivotal as it responds to an enormous volume of medical needs. In this blog, we take a look back at the steadfast service at Al Ahli’s hospital and clinic over the past 15 months.

Exhausted but still serving in Gaza
Exhausted but still serving in Gaza

It’s been over 8 months since the war in Gaza began. Nader Abu Amsha, Executive Director of Embrace partner DSPR, tells us in this searing and personal blog what the war has meant for his staff (and their families) in Gaza, caught up in the catastrophe themselves but continuing, with extraordinary courage, to meet the needs of a traumatised and suffering population.

The risks and realities facing the children of Gaza
The risks and realities facing the children of Gaza

For many years, Embrace’s partners have served to provide medical care for the mothers and children of Gaza, whose health was severely impacted by the blockade. Now Gaza’s children are being disproportionately affected by the current war, as Embrace’s Programmes & Partnerships Manager, Rhiannon, explains.

PERSONAL STORIES FROM OUR HEALTHCARE PROJECTS

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Extraordinary mothers: Protecting daughters from violence
Extraordinary mothers: Protecting daughters from violence

In the last in our series of stories featuring extraordinary mothers we meet Nadeen, who had to go to incredible lengths to keep her two young daughters safe from the violent and unpredictable behaviour of their father.

Extraordinary Mothers: Stopping FGM
Extraordinary Mothers: Stopping FGM

In the third in our series of stories featuring extraordinary mothers we meet Myriam, who had the courage and determination to protect the children in her care from the harmful and illegal practice of Female Genital Mutilation.

Extraordinary Mothers: Refusing to give up on education
Extraordinary Mothers: Refusing to give up on education

In the second in our series of stories featuring extraordinary mothers we meet Auset. Like many women in rural Egypt, gender discrimination meant Auset was not able to access adequate education as a child. This left her isolated, limited in what she could do and struggling against inequality.