Assistência Médica Internacional
| Assistência Médica Internacional | |
|---|---|
| legal form | society |
| founding | 1984 |
| founder | Fernando Nobre |
| Seat | Lisbon , Portugal |
| main emphasis | Aid organization, medical emergency aid |
| method | Help, commitment, education |
| Action space | worldwide |
| Chair | Fernando Nobre (President) |
| Managing directors | Luísa Nemésio (General Secretary) |
| owner | Fundação de Assistência Médica Internacional Foundation |
| Employees | 222, of which 152 are permanent employees |
| Website | www.ami.org (port., engl.) |
Assistência Médica Internacional ( Portuguese for: "International Medical Support") is an international organization for medical emergency aid from Portugal . The private aid organization was founded in 1984 and primarily provides emergency medical aid in crisis and war zones.
It is financed through donations and inheritances, as well as through public grants and proceeds, etc. a. from services and your own online shop ( merchandising , books, etc.). AMI closed the year 2016 with a positive net result of € 835,933.19 with total assets of € 37.42 million.
history
The Portuguese surgeon Fernando Nobre grew up in what was then the Portuguese colony of Angola and lived in the Republic of Congo from 1964 . He then went to Brussels, where he studied medicine and, after completing his doctorate, worked as a surgeon and urologist at the University Hospital in Brussels . At the same time, he worked for Doctors Without Borders , especially in the 1970s , and was deployed around the world.
In 1984 he founded the AMI in Portugal, on the one hand to use the potential of Portuguese doctors and society more effectively for international aid, and on the other hand to apply his previous experience in regions that have so far been relatively neglected, in particular the Portuguese-speaking countries Africa , which only became independent after the end of the Portuguese colonial war in 1974.
After moving to Portugal in 1985, Nobre intensified the work of AMI.
Areas of application
The main focuses of the AMI work include Guinea-Bissau , which has been given less and less attention by international aid , Haiti , which has repeatedly been deeply shaken , Iraq , Niger , Nepal and Sri Lanka .
In Europe, Romania became a focus after the end of the Iron Curtain in 1989. Since 1994, Portugal itself has also been an area of activity of the AMI, especially in the wake of the tough austerity policy with severe social cuts and the subsequent impoverishment of a large part of the population after the euro crisis in 2010.
So far, the AMI has been active in 77 countries, of which 29 in Africa, 17 in America, 15 in Asia and Oceania, 9 in Europe and 7 in the Middle East.
Web links
- Official website of the AMI (Portuguese, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the AMI personnel structure (Portuguese), PDF available on the AMI website, accessed on January 20, 2018
- ↑ Annual report 2016 (p. 111), PDF available on the AMI website, accessed on January 31, 2018
- ^ Alfredo Cunha , Luís Pedro Nunes (text): Toda a Esperança do Mundo. , Porto Editora , Porto 2015 ( ISBN 978-972-0-04780-9 ), pp. 304ff.