The Lebanese Association, together with Malteser International, distributes emergency kits and provides medical assistance

A home visits programme is reaching out to 400 Syrian refugee families living in precarious improvised shelters in northern Lebanon. With Malteser International’s support, the Lebanese Association of the Order of Malta’s socio-medical centre in Khaldieh is sending out health professionals to visit refugees in Zgharta and Kfarzayna villages in order to conduct health awareness sessions, educating the refugees on various issues such as personal hygiene, maternal care and the importance of vaccination.

The first year of the project for teaching high-school pupils first-aid techniques ended on a high note. Organized by the Order of Malta’s volunteer corps in Albania, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Education, the project was implemented in four stages.

The celebrations in 2013 for the nine hundredth anniversary of Pope Paschal II’s Bull are not only in Rome but also in the numerous countries where the Order of Malta is present.
The Order’s National Association has set up a healthcare campaign for the prevention and treatment of diabetes in El Salvador, a widespread disease in this Central American country. Five hundred people have taken advantage of the initiative, launched on 17 February when the new clinics opened their doors offering everyone a free glycemic test.

On the second anniversary of the Syrian conflict that has so far caused more than 70,000 deaths and led more than one million to flee the country, Malteser International is calling attention to the daily struggle for survival of displaced Syrian mothers and children.

For more than 60 years, Kayin State (also known as Karen State), in southeast Myanmar, has been stage to a violent conflict which has caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. Recently, nonetheless, positive steps have been made towards peace: a political opening of the country, followed by intensive negotiations, has led to a ceasefire agreement between the government and the Karen National Union (KNU): an end to this long-lasting civil war could finally be in sight.