INTERSOS Humanitarian Aid Organization
Formation
| 1992
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Type
| International NGO
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Purpose
| Humanitarian aid
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Headquarters
| Rome
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President
| Mamadou Ndiaye
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General Director
| Konstantinos Moschochoritis
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Budget
(2022)
| 109.436.392 €
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Staff
(2022)
| 3.756
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Website
| https://www.intersos.org/en/
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INTERSOS
is an
international humanitarian organization
, based in Italy, which intervenes in emergencies and crises to bring immediate aid to people whose lives are threatened by conflict, violence, extreme poverty, and
natural
or
artificial
disasters.
INTERSOS is an independent organization, partnering with numerous associations and organizations in the countries it operates and with major European and international institutions and agencies. It is a member of
ICVA
, VOICE, LINK 2007, enjoys consultative status in the
United Nations Economic and Social Council
and observer status at the
International Organization for Migration
.
In
Greece
, INTERSOS has established a partner organization, INTERSOS Hellas, which directly manages humanitarian programs in the country.
History
[
edit
]
INTERSOS was founded on November 25,
1992
.
[1]
Initially, the organization operated in
Somalia
, starting its first project and acquiring the
Jowhar
Regional Hospital. Missions then expanded to
Burundi
and
Rwanda
, assisting Rwandan refugees and supporting the National Health System.
In subsequent years, INTERSOS expanded its reach, establishing the Mine Action Unit with demining operations in
Bosnia
,
Angola
,
Afghanistan
and
Iraq
. Humanitarian operations expanded to central and northern Bosnia, responding to the needs of the
war-affected
population, and
Mozambique
, facilitating the return of refugees from
Malawi
. In addition, INTERSOS offered support to
Chechen
refugees in
Ingushetia
and
Chechnya
[
disambiguation needed
]
and intervened in
Albania
with food distributions, infrastructure rehabilitation and health support.
The turn of the last century also saw INTERSOS engaged in food security projects in Angola, response to the drought emergency in Eritrea and humanitarian projects in Kosovo. Humanitarian missions expanded to
Nicaragua
in response to
Hurricane Mitch
, refugee assistance, repatriation, and medical rehabilitation.
In the early years of the 21st century, INTERSOS expanded its presence in
Sudan
,
Chad
,
Lebanon
,
Yemen
,
Mauritania
and the
Democratic Republic of Congo
, supporting displaced persons, responding to humanitarian emergencies, and contributing to post-earthquake reconstruction in
Indonesia
. The organization assisted Afghan refugees in Pakistan and responded to crises such as the hurricane in
Haiti
.
The next decade saw INTERSOS on new missions to
Jordan
, the
Central African Republic
, and
Italy
: here, it opened INTERSOS24 in Rome to protect vulnerable migrant women and minors from
COVID-19
.
[2]
[3]
The last few years have taken INTERSOS to
Greece
,
Nigeria
,
Libya
,
Syria
, and
Niger
and initiated intervention in
Ukraine
.
[4]
It has supported the
COVAX
initiative for the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide.
It is currently present in 23 countries.
Since 2015, Konstantinos Moschochoritis has been its Director General.
Presidency
[
edit
]
- Nino Sergi 1992 - 1996 (president emeritus)
- Raffaele Morese 1996 - 2009
- Marco Rotelli 2009 - 2022
- Mamadou Ndiaye since 2022
Activities
[
edit
]
INTERSOS runs projects, directly and in collaboration with other humanitarian organizations, to assist in humanitarian emergencies in Italy
[5]
and abroad.
[6]
The areas of intervention in which it operates are protection, water and hygiene, emergency distributions and shelters, health and nutrition, food security, and emergency education.
[7]
In Italy, it runs several projects to protect migrants,
[8]
the individual and children through programs such as INTERSOS24,
[9]
a "Safe Space & Child-Friendly Space" for women and children with a clinic in the
Torre Spaccata
area of Rome.
In addition, in 1997, INTERSOS set up a humanitarian mine clearance unit (first intervention in Bosnia and then Angola, Afghanistan and Iraq), which ended in 2007.
[10]
References
[
edit
]
"INTERSOS"
.
intersos.org
. Retrieved
21 June
2011
.
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