On October 28, 2025, Hurricane Melissa brought extreme devastation to homes and infrastructure as the first Category Five storm to ever hit Jamaica.
Six months later, more than 100 health facilities are still damaged or not fully functional as recovery and rebuilding continue.
Corus is proud to partner with the JN Foundation and St. John Ambulance Jamaica to bring mobile medical clinics to hard hit and rural communities that lack access to essential health services. 🚑
Emily Grose, our Associate Director for Humanitarian Action Program Quality, shares more information about this program from a recent mobile clinic site in rural Kew Park, Westmoreland parish.
04/23/2026
Joseph Obure, Senior Technical Director for MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience at Corus organization IMA World Health, will be joining a powerful lineup of global leaders at an upcoming CORE Group event focused on one urgent question: How do we strengthen local health systems to withstand today’s humanitarian crises?
📌 Community Health in Fragile Settings: Strengthening Local Systems for Humanitarian Crises
🗓 April 30, 2026 | 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
📍 Washington, DC + virtual participation worldwide
As crises become more complex and protracted, Joseph will bring frontline-informed perspectives on resilience, local ownership, and sustainable health delivery in fragile and conflict affected settings.
He’ll be joined by:
🎤 Lisa M. Hilmi — Executive Director, CORE Group
🌐 Janette Karimi — Maternal & Newborn Health Focal Person, The Ministry of Health, Kenya
🌐 Linda M. — Senior Health Specialist, The World Bank Group
🌐 Sarah Mtonya — Deputy Director of Health, International Rescue Committee
🌐 Bernard McCaul — President, GOAL Global
This hybrid forum is designed for practitioners, policymakers, and partners who are committed to moving beyond short term fixes toward community driven, locally led health systems.
We are proud to announce the signing of a new partnership between UNITEC and Corus organization Lutheran World Relief. Our alliance is designed to boost talent, innovation, and applied research across the country.
Our shared goal is simple and powerful: to work hand in hand on strategic actions that positively impact the lives of Hondurans.
This alliance focuses on key pillars for national development:
🚜💻 Technological Innovation: Modernizing the agro‑industrial sector and accelerating digital transformation.
🌱🌎 Resilience: Strengthening climate adaptation and corporate environmental management.
💪🌟 Expanded Opportunity: Prioritizing the economic empowerment of women and youth.
By combining UNITEC’s academic excellence with LWR’s operational methodologies, we are creating an environment where research becomes real solutions for communities in Honduras.
Unitec Honduras
04/16/2026
For more than a decade, The Starbucks Foundation and Corus organization Lutheran World Relief have partnered to strengthen coffee-growing communities in Colombia and Indonesia — with women at the heart of the impact. ☕🌱
Since 2015, this partnership has directly reached more than 20,000 people — including over 11,000 women — expanding economic opportunity, improving access to safe water and sanitation, and supporting farming practices that protect soil health and reduce waste.
Across communities, women are leading change:
✔️ Launching and growing small businesses through micro-enterprise and financial literacy training
✔️ Managing community “garbage banks” that turn waste into income
✔️ Championing hygiene education in schools and homes
✔️ Adopting soil-smart farming techniques that strengthen harvests and resilience – 🎥 check out the video below to learn more!
From Diana in Colombia, who stepped into community leadership and improved water access for her village, to Pagit and Agita in Indonesia, whose waste bank collects 200kg of trash each month, women are transforming opportunity into lasting impact for their families and neighbors.
🔎 Dive deeper into how The Starbucks Foundation and Lutheran World Relief are investing in women and youth, strengthening families, and building healthier, more hopeful coffee-growing communities together: https://lwr.org/starbucks_foundation
04/10/2026
Smallholder farmers face massive pressure from market instability. But the right tools and training can change everything.
Corus International and Ecobank Côte d'Ivoire have launched a new 15-month initiative to strengthen agricultural producer cooperatives across Côte d’Ivoire and Togo. We are pairing tailored agricultural loans with expert training in regenerative farming to give farmers real protection against income shocks.
This partnership focuses on:
✅ Improving financial literacy for farmers
✅ Enhancing cooperative governance and leadership
✅ Creating resilient, bankable cooperatives
When we invest in local farmers, especially women and youth, we build a stronger economic foundation for entire communities.
Humanitarian work is never easy. But living through an ongoing crisis that you’re also working to help others survive — that’s another level of stress few can imagine.
Ali Hijazi, Corus International program director in Lebanon, recently walked through his own neighborhood to assess the devastating damage. Even while facing profound personal loss, his resolve to stay and serve the city he calls home remains unshaken.
Ali's dedication, and that of his team in Lebanon, drives our ongoing response. Through Corus organization Lutheran World Relief, we are delivering essential care directly to families in need, providing:
⚕️Home-based medical consultations
💊 Critical, life-saving medications
♿ Assistive mobility devices like wheelchairs and walkers
Listen to Ali’s powerful interview to hear his story and learn more about our emergency relief efforts on the ground.: https://bit.ly/4sVq2FU
04/09/2026
☕ Will you be at World of Coffee in San Diego this week? 🌊🌴
Don’t miss out on meeting and hearing from our Corus experts and Ugandan coffee company, Mountain Harvest!
✅ Carolina Aguilar, Technical Services Director for Specialty Crops
✅ Karen Pavon, Director of Central America
✅ Kenneth Barigye Kenneth Barigye, Managing Director of Mountain Harvest
✅ Nico Herr, Senior Manager, Coffee Quality, Marketing and Sales
Check out where & when you can catch them at WoC below or reach out to them directly to arrange a time to connect...maybe over a cup of coffee?
The next outbreak could start anywhere. Preparedness must start everywhere.
Corus organization IMA World Health strengthens global health security by helping countries and communities prevent, prepare for, detect, and respond to outbreaks and pandemics.
Working alongside local governments and partners, we support responsive, resilient health service delivery, strengthen community surveillance, improve vaccine access, and equip health facilities to respond to emergencies quickly and effectively.
In this video, Dennis Cherian, Corus International’s Global Practice Head for Health, explains our approach to global health security. Dive deeper on our website: https://bit.ly/4tvaWHf
03/30/2026
Thank you, International Health Partners! We are honored to be partnering with you on this lifesaving work in South Sudan and DRC. We look forward to working together to ensure frontline providers have the essential supplies they need to care for their communities.
We are proud to announce our new partnership with IMA World Health, a Corus International organisation, as we continue in our mission to serve those in need around the world by providing access to essential healthcare. Our first shipments will support IMA’s vital work in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Operating in highly fragile humanitarian contexts, our Essential Health Packs will deliver critical medical supplies to communities facing significant barriers to care. Together, we can ensure that healthcare providers are equipped, supply chains are dependable, and patients can access the care they deserve.
03/27/2026
🚀 New White Paper Launch: A Framework for Scaling EdTech Impact in Sub‑Saharan Africa
Why do so many EdTech initiatives fail to deliver sustainable results?
Because technology alone isn’t enough.
Our new white paper — A Framework for Scaling EdTech Impact: Six Stages for Sustainable Education Technology Reform in Sub‑Saharan Africa — lays out a practical, evidence‑informed roadmap showing how governments, donors, and implementers can sequence investments to build lasting digital transformation.
📊 Drawing on implementation experience across West, East, and Central Africa, the paper argues that EdTech succeeds only when foundational systems are in place first:
1️⃣ Power & connectivity
2️⃣ Clean teacher payroll and HR data
3️⃣ A national school master list
4️⃣ Strong district‑level management
5️⃣ Data‑driven school leadership & teacher support
6️⃣ Classroom technology — last, not first
🔍 The research shows: when the sequence is skipped, programs stall or collapse. When followed, EdTech becomes scalable, sustainable, and transformative.
⬇️ Download the white paper to explore the full framework, case studies, and evidence base — and to rethink how we invest in EdTech across low‑resource settings:
🔗 https://bit.ly/3PNyCrw
03/26/2026
When global education budgets shrink, programs that support the most vulnerable children are often the first to be cut. We have the power and the tools to change this trajectory.
By leveraging data and EdTech innovations, we can protect education for children at the greatest risk of dropping out. Corus Senior Education Advisor Hannah Graham will outline exactly how we achieve this at the upcoming 2026 CIES conference.
Her presentation highlights our Girls In School Initiative (GISI). This program proves that precision targeting at scale is entirely achievable using existing national digital systems.
Through timely data and targeted interventions, we can keep vulnerable girls in the classroom, support local educators, and build truly resilient education systems.
We must act decisively to ensure all children have access to quality education despite funding cuts.
Read Hannah’s latest blog to understand how we are turning data into action and don’t miss her CIES 2026 session: https://bit.ly/4dKMPzl
CIES-Comparative and International Education Society
03/26/2026
Big news at Corus International. 🚀✨
We’re elevating education as a flagship pillar of our work and accelerating our technology strategy with two key leadership appointments:
🏫🎓 Hannah Graham, leading our global education portfolio
&
📱📈 David McAfee, joining as Managing Director of CGA Technologies
With this leadership in place, Corus is expanding its ability to deliver integrated, tech-enabled services that help governments, donors, and private-sector partners achieve measurable results at scale (like the Wi De Ya education and attendance monitoring platform being used in classrooms across Sierra Leone pictured below).
Explore how these appointments advance Corus’s growth strategy in our latest announcement: https://bit.ly/3NER5pI
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In August 2016, a wave of violence swept through IMA World Health’s project regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 3 million people were affected, and several health centers we support shut down due to mass population displacement. Yet we met or even exceeded annual targets for several important health services. Thanks to our longstanding relationships with local chiefs, we even negotiated the passage of medicines for resupplying health zones that were cut off from receiving supplies for many months.
When famine struck in South Sudan, IMA’s longstanding relationships with local partners helped to ensure rapid access to emergency care for those facing imminent starvation. Our presence in the world’s youngest country has survived this famine, the ravages of war and extreme drought since 2009.
IMA World Health works in some of the world’s most fragile areas, where stability can be fleeting and there are no guarantees. A devastating hurricane in Haiti or violence in eastern DRC could have forced us to pack up and leave.
We didn’t. Our projects overcome because the people overcome. Person by person and community by community, together we rebuild, we reconvene, we rediscover hope again and again. We are able to continue operating in these fragile places because we invest in each community we serve. We are committed to change that lasts. This is resilience, and we believe IMA’s best work is in empowering individuals and communities with skills and tools to turn this ineffable quality into real-world solutions for overcoming their health challenges.
In our 2017 Annual Report, we present some of the highlights of IMA’s work the past year. As you read, we encourage you to look beyond the numbers to see how IMA is building resilience to create lasting impact in the communities we serve. Please know we are deeply grateful for how you, our donors and partners, share in our vision and make this work possible.
