“Mitigating inequalities and suffering in the world, with the human being at the center of concerns”: this is how AMI (International Medical Assistance) defines its core purpose. With the partnership established with Centralmed, this Portuguese NGO has been able to undertake a consistent path of investment in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), thus creating more appropriate conditions for fulfilling its crucial mission of humanistic inspiration.
What is AMI and what was its challenge?
Founded in 1984, AMI has operated in 82 countries across five continents. The goal is always to help the most vulnerable, whether through sending hundreds of volunteers or tons of medicines, medical equipment, food, clothing, vehicles, and generators, to name a few examples.
On an international level, AMI carries out three major types of interventions, namely: Emergency Missions, Development Missions with expatriate teams, and International Projects in Partnership with Local Organizations (PIPOL). Its actions are always tailored to the specific characteristics and needs of each context. As such, interventions always have a phased profile, seeking to ensure the sustainability of the development process being implemented.
Being a public utility, non-profit institution, the support of companies and civil society, materialized in donations or the provision of goods and services, is fundamental for AMI. As such, almost all training conducted with employees is requested from companies on a pro bono basis.