What's Happening Now

Refugee Children from Syria and migrants from many other countries suffer for many months in transition camps in Greece because they are blocked from returning home and forbidden to stay in Europe.

Conscience International has been helping refugees in Jordan for many years. We sent another team to Jordan this year to visit long time partners who are assisting Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

Just a few months ago the entire staff of Jos University Teaching Hospital in Jos, Nigeria walked off the job, frustrated by the dearth of medical supplies and equipment needed for the vital care of its patients

Flooding is not new to Bangladesh—monsoons are an annual occurrence. But the monsoons of 2016 are proving to be unendurable, which makes it all the more devastating for those who have been through flooding before. Children are the most vulnerable among the thousands now fighting for survival.

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