What's Happening Now

The refugee crisis in Greece and Turkey is constantly in the news with Conscience International humanitarian aid workers on-site dealing with the needs of thousands who are fleeing war and disasters in their home countries.  The conditions for workers, as well as the refugees, are often repressive as well; they work day and night in over-taxing situations without regret, but when these caregivers—volunteers and humanitarian aid staff—sometimes become themselves victims of burn-out and trauma, who is there to support them? 

High up in the mountains of northwest Bangladesh, the small remote community of Shambhugani villagers -- until recently-- had no school, no sanitation, no medical help, no community development programs and little available water. Now they do, and they are ready to pass on what they have learned, built, and are experiencing to the neighboring village of Kulpotak, thanks to a number of life-changing programs designed and implemented by the humanitarian efforts of Conscience International and its partners.

In 2015 a Conscience International medical team led by Dr. Ted Belanger and his wife Toni from the Texas Back Institute, near Dallas, returned to Ethiopia for yet another challenging few weeks conducting a number of spinal surgeries that returned full lives to many afflicted young people. But at least one young lady did not have the perfect outcome they had hoped for—or did she?

A Conscience International team was in Greece and Turkey in September delivering relief aid to hundreds of refugees fleeing the war in Syria and the terror of ISIS in Iraq. Our work in Greece and Turkey is ongoing with a followup team of 15 volunteers in October helping to build transition camps to shelter the continuing influx of refugees and migrants. We are coordinating our efforts with our local partners in Izmir, Seljuk, and Kaiserli as well as with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) through its Country Director for Greece

A Conscience International team was in Greece and Turkey in September delivering relief aid to hundreds of refugees fleeing the war in Syria and the terror of ISIS in Iraq. Our work in Greece and Turkey is ongoing with a followup team of 15 volunteers in October helping to build transition camps to shelter the continuing influx of refugees and migrants. We are coordinating our efforts with our local partners in Izmir, Seljuk, and Kaiserli as well as with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) through its Country Director for Greece

Middle East Program Director Cliff Gardner and his wife, Marilyn, a registered public health nurse, took medical supplies along with their field expertise and nursing skills to offer helping hands in a mobile clinic serving IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons). 

Conscience International has delivered a truckload of food to help 250 refugee families survive for one month in northern Iraq.  Rice, beans, spices, cooking oil, and hygiene items go quickly. Hunger is the never-ending problem among people who are without jobs, opportunity, and finances to support families. Refugees exist in tents made of steel pipe frames covered in plastic. Others survive in unfinished buildings without walls, each family living in curtained-off ’rooms.’  

You haven’t heard much about it on the news because there were so few deaths, but the landslide and flood affected areas in the Chin State province of Myanmar brought on by unremitting monsoons and worsened by Cyclone Komen, has left more than one million people, (one-third of them children) victims of homelessness, disease, and hunger. Medical aid, food, shelter, and emotional support are desperately needed.