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As part of IDA Foundation’s sustainability journey, our headquarters in Amsterdam were renovated in 2018 according to the highest green standards. As the area around our office is currently undergoing many changes, requiring our parking lot to be moved, IDA is taking the opportunity to also turn our office terrain into a climate-adaptive green zone that will benefit the local environment.

After months of working from home due to the major impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we can say our staff does not take this as an excuse to stop exercising. The past few weeks our employees were challenged to share their ways of staying fit during this global crisis, with the very first IDA Fit Challenge. We asked colleagues to share how they are staying fit during lockdown.

The global supply chain is heavily impacted by the pandemic spread of the corona virus. Transport options are scarce due to export restrictions and due to countries being in lockdown to prevent the corona virus from further spreading. These regulations pose challenges for us as a supplier of medical goods.

As the Corona virus pandemic spreads around the globe, and all health care systems and governments seem to be engulfed with battling COVID-19, we realise it is more important than ever that we don’t lose sight of other existing health issues.

This week (20-27 September) is Global Climate Strike week; also an opportunity for IDA Foundation to step up to support young climate strikers all over the world. Following earlier climate strikes these past years, this week has broken records with millions of people on the streets to take action for our climate. Today, our employees joined the climate strike by ‘striking’ outside our Amsterdam office.

Every year, it is estimated that 250.000 new cases of cancer affect children.

On 16 June, IDA employees joined thousands of others to walk during the 'Night of the Refugee' in Amsterdam.

In January 2018, Dutch media reported that the training programme of global health doctors in the Nederlands is at risk of coming to an end because of lack of funding by the Dutch government.

On March 26th, 2018, IDA Foundation’s application for membership in the UN Global Compact was successfully accepted. Participation demonstrates our commitment to human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

The November 7 conference explored challenges around access to medicines in Haiti.

Meet Kesney Auguste of Haiti Medicine, IDA's local partner in Haiti.

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