Conscience International, Inc.

Response to community leaders who identified the need for construction of school in a remote village

Initiated services via a mobile clinic at Bokolmayo Camp on the Ethiopia-Somalia border;
Conducted surgical program in Addis Ababa for children suffering crippling spine abnormalities. Program is ongoing.

Medical re-supply for hospital in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria

Manage transition camps in Greece; provide food and non-food items for refugees in Iraq and Turkey; conduct trauma counseling training for Iraqi and Syrian refugees and IDPs

Following decades of humanitarian work in Iraq, primarily in implementing medical training programs at hospitals in Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul, Conscience International shifted its focus to the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Even during the Covid-19 lock down, our team leader from the US traveled there and to Mount Sinjar, and delivered aid to refugee camps devastated by floods and fires, building retaining walls and sanitary facilities and providing mattresses and blankets to those left destitute. We delivered truckloads of mattresses and blankets to those made homeless over again by the fires.

This program was initiated in the central Plateau State of Nigeria near its capital, Jos, but reached people all over Nigeria. After years of working with the Jos University Hospital to supply containers of medicine, our focus shifted during the Covid-19 lock down to feeding thousands of people all over Nigeria in partnership with a local organization that mainly served the handicapped. When the food arrived, many of the handicapped people came with their entire families to receive the distributions.

By supporting local teams during the Covid-19 lock down, Conscience International has dug over twenty wells in villages near Kaduna in central Nigeria. These wells provide clean drinking water that will prevent widespread infectious diarrhea that is a prime cause of the alarming increase in infant mortality.

Conscience International medical personnel are serving to treat Covid-19 patients in national hospitals and field hospitals and to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) for physicians and first responders who could not work without such equipment. Teams are also continuing to set up Covid-19 testing locations and providing masks to the public.

As in 2010, when Conscience International responded to the giant earthquake in Port-Au-Prince that killed 220,000 people, so also when an even stronger quake struck Haiti's Tiburon peninsula on August 14, 2021, our relief team reached the remote disaster area within three days. Some of the villages where we work saw every home flattened. Our teams are distributing tenting material and food to those affected. Ultimately the project will focus on shelter assistance, as in 2010, when over 1,000 volunteers helped us build 189 permanent homes from the rubble.