Annual report 2005 Malteser International - Ordine di Malta

Asia
In Asia, the focus in 2005 was on the immense suffering of victims of two major disasters and the overwhelming
aid measures implemented: the tsunami of 26 December 2004 with over 250,000 people dead or missing and
the earthquake in Pakistan and the Indian area of Kashmir on 8 October with up to 88,000 victims. Malteser
International is taking part in rehabilitation measures in five countries affected by the tsunami (Indonesia, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, India and Myanmar) and has also provided rapid immediate aid in Pakistan and the Indian
Himalayas in cooperation with its partners. Given the extent of the damage, both regions will require several
more years of support. In addition, we are carrying out emergency aid and rehabilitation projects in a total of
eleven Asian countries relating to health care, water supply and sewage, income-generating measures, education
as well as welfare services for children and young people.
Afghanistan
International staff: 11
National staff: 197
UNAMA (United Nations Assistance
Mission for Afghanistan):
8 staff members
Aid for 220,000 people
Malteser International has worked in
Afghanistan since 2002.
Health care provision, school construction
and income-generating measures
for those returning home were focal
points of our work also in 2005. Despite
ongoing restrictions due to a tense security
situation, we were able to maintain longterm
effective projects from our locations
in Kabul and Herat. Afghanistan is far
behind in an international comparison
of health indicators. In rural areas in
particular, most people have no access to
schools and medical care. A programme in
the Badghis province, supported through
German Federal Government funds via the
KfW Entwicklungsbank (Development
Bank – KfW Banking Group) and the CIM
(Centre for International Migration and
Development), addresses the construction
of schools, as well as the construction and
operation of health care facilities and the
training of medical staff.
In Herat, three further schools are
nearing completion. Around 40 percent of
the school children are girls, most going
to school now for the first time in their
lives.
In the central region, we ran a programme
for returnees, in conjunction with
the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR), with the aim of
I N M E M O R I A M
Dr. Ezmeray Azizi (29)
Dr. Ezmeray Azizi was killed in an ambush on 12 May 2006
in North-West Afghanistan. He was in a UN vehicle on the
way from Herat to Qala-e-Nau when it came under fire around
midday with rockets and machine guns. The driver of the vehicle,
a UNICEF colleague, was killed immediately. The 29-yearold
Afghan working for Malteser International, responsible for
monitoring ten health care centres and a province hospital, was
able to run away initially, but later died due to his injuries. “We mourn the passing
of our colleague. Our deepest sympathies go out to his family,” said the President of
Malteser International, Nicolas de Cock de Rameyen, expressing the condolences of all
at Malteser International. – R. I. P.
Afghanistan:
Women with
their children
in front of a
health care
centre.
improving village infrastructures, training
people in workmanship and carrying out
peace-promoting measures. Within this
framework, we provided support for
around 11,000 families.
Using funds from the German Foreign
Office, we provided winter aid for around
200 needy families in Kabul, who received
food, clothing and fuel.
In June 2005, the project on behalf
of the United Nations and the German
Foreign Office, with the aim of providing
medical supplies for UNAMA staff and
members of the police academy in Kabul,
was finalised successfully after four years.
Malteser International was on hand to give
advice until the newly erected clinic and
the structure for training courses could be
handed over entirely to our local partners.
Our teams prepared the local authorities
to take over high quality medical care for
policemen and ensure this is available on
a long-term basis.
In addition to the treatment of patients
and examination of recruits, we offered
first aid training to over 400 police
officers and medical staff.
Afghanistan: Ceremonial opening of a school in the
province of Badghis.
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