Polish aid NGO looking for more medical volunteers
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
19.08.2014 09:22
The Polish Center for International Aid (PCPM) is looking to boost its team of paramedics, doctors, nurses and midwives to assist victims of natural disasters and other humanitarian crises.
On World Humanitarian Day, established by the UN in 2008, PCPM says the volunteers must be ready to fly to any part of the world at 24 hours notice.
The Polish NGO, founded in 2006 and the largest Polish secular non-governmental organization in terms of its annual cash flow and number of field-based missions, currently has a team of 50 paramedics and medical staff and has been working on humanitarian projects in working in Southern Sudan, Georgia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lebanon, among others.
“Thanks to the funding received from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) amounting to US$ 360,000, PCPM will double the number of beneficiaries of its humanitarian aid project to Syrian refugees in Lebanon from 630 to about 1,150 families,” the group says.
PCPM has also been working on projects on 70 poor Palestinian farms in the Hebron and Bethlehem. (pg)