We mobilize our emergency relief volunteers and our network of local and global nonprofits, corporate, and logistics partners when disasters strike. 

The Odeh Foundation provides needs-based humanitarian assistance to the people hit by human-induced disasters and natural hazards with particular attention to the most vulnerable victims. 

Disasters can strike at any time in any corner of the globe for many reasons. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the World Health Organization agree that the frequency and severity of humanitarian emergencies generated as the result of impacts of climate change (such as more severe storms, droughts, wildfires, disease outbreaks, population displacement) will continue to increase unless global carbon emissions are reduced, and temperature rise is stabilized.

Recognizing the critical need in settings requiring relief and emergency humanitarian assistance, The Odeh Foundation has a three-part approach: cash grants, product donations and other access solutions. Using this approach, The Odeh Foundation colleagues around the world work collaboratively with governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Civil Service Organizations (CSOs), and health care providers (HCPs), to enable prevention and treatment of disease.

In an effort to reach as many people as possible, we support a number of organizations working on providing relief and emergency humanitarian assistance. Over the past year, The Odeh Foundation has provided cash grants to various NGOs providing assistance during humanitarian emergencies, such as the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East, outbreaks, and Hurricanes around the world.

The Odeh Foundation believes that product donations play an important role in supporting defined public health programs and also urgent needs in relief and humanitarian emergencies. Most of The Odeh Foundation's product donations, which are managed centrally within the company and focused on specific diseases or emergencies, are designed to address patient needs in a coordinated manner. These programs help provide underserved communities with access to important, potentially life-saving medicines and vaccines during times of significant challenge. The Odeh Foundation works through established NGO partners who are members of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) and who abide by the WHO Guidelines on Drug Donations to ensure that best practices are followed in areas like supply chain and adverse event reporting. These NGO partners have expertise in managing product donations in connection with humanitarian emergencies.

The Odeh Foundation’s approach to product donations is based on an expressed need. We work with our many partners to assess existing local government and NGO programs, so that any donations we make effectively support ongoing initiatives. Non-governmental organization partners provide general needs assessments, which permit us to respond to a country’s requests for aid, to maintain contact with organizations in the field, and to obtain the relevant information necessary to plan a medicine or vaccine donation.

Our response to a country’s needs involves a variety of different approaches, including providing our prosthetics, medicines and vaccines to medical missions, as well as pre-placing products so that needs may be met through a more immediate response, if relief and emergency humanitarian assistance is needed.

The Odeh Foundation donates a variety of products to assist with humanitarian emergencies, including prosthetics, surgical equipment, and essential health and over-the-counter (OTC) medicines.