Meet the Team
Our Board
Our three-member board brings together different perspectives, expertise and a shared commitment to solidarity, human rights and healthcare for all
Sarah Schneider
Chair of the Board
Co-Managing Director
As Co-Managing Director, Sarah works across the organisation, sharing responsibility for administration, finance and HR Her focus is on shaping our political direction and driving our international projects, building connections and turning our values into action across borders.
Contact
sarah.schneider@medical-solidarity.org
Schukufeh Memari-Nejad
Member of the Board
Co-Managing Director
As Co-Managing Director, Schukufeh works across the organisation, sharing responsibility for administration, finance and HR. Her focus is on events and projects in Germany, bringing people together and turning solidarity into action
Contact
schukufeh.memari@medical-solidarity.org
Josephine Oldenburg
Member of the Board
Medical Supervision
As board member and medical lead, Josi brings medical expertise to our work. She helps shape our medical approach and supports the development of our healthcare projects, ensuring that medical knowledge remains at the heart of what we do.
Contact
josi.oldenburg@medical-solidarity.org
Our Team
Our small, remote-based team keeps Medical Solidarity International moving. Together with our local coordinators and partners, we turn solidarity into action — supporting people in need, standing up for human rights and working for the right to healthcare for all.
Viviane Czok-Gökkurt
Coordination of press and public relations
As Coordinator for Press and Public Relations, Viviane makes the work of Medical Solidarity International visible and brings our issues into the public sphere. She manages our communication across different channels, maintains existing networks and builds new connections. She also organises and supports events and is a point of contact for new donors and supporters who want to learn more about our work and get involved.
Contact
viviane@medical-solidarity.org
Annbritt Meiwald
Coordination Crewing
As Coordinator of Crewing, Annbritt brings together people who want to get involved in our medical and psychosocial projects along the EU’s external borders. She is the first point of contact for our volunteers, accompanying them from their application through to their deployment and making sure they are well prepared to join the projects.
Contact
crewing@medical-solidarity.org
Anna Kraft
Coordination WeCare
Coordination Psychosocial Back Office
As Coordinator, Anna keeps the different strands of WeCare and the Psychosocial Back Office together. She coordinates the teams and ensures that the different services and points of contact work well together. WeCare provides psychosocial counselling for people with refugee and migration experience in Germany, while the Psychosocial Back Office provides psychosocial support for our volunteers working in international projects.
Contact
projectwecare@medical-solidarity.org
Miriam Bernhard
Coordination First Aid Project
As Coordinator of our First Aid Project, Miriam organises free first aid courses for people with refugee and migration experience in Germany. She brings participants and trainers together, coordinates the courses and makes sure that first aid knowledge is accessible and practical. This creates opportunities for people to gain knowledge and confidence to support themselves and others in their everyday lives.
Contact
kurse@medical-solidarity.org
Annika Greff
Coordination Local Groups and Events
As Coordinator of our Regional Groups, Annika is the main point of contact for our local groups across Germany. She supports volunteers, coordinates regional activities and helps organise events and initiatives together with the groups.
As part of our Events Team, she also organises and supports fundraising events, concerts and other activities where we raise donations, for example through deposit collections. She helps bring people together and turns events into opportunities to support our work.
Contact
regionalgruppen@medical-solidarity.org
Project Coordinations
Our international project coordinators keep our projects moving on the ground. They connect teams and partners, coordinate our work across Greece and the Balkans, and help turn solidarity into action where it is needed most.
Soline Demetz
Coordination Balkan Projects
As Coordinator of our Balkan Projects, Soline is our point of contact for our work in the region. She coordinates projects, stays closely connected with our local partners and brings our work into relevant networks and advocacy structures. Through this work, she stands up for the rights of people on the move and their access to healthcare.
Contact
balkan@medical-solidarity.org
Orlagh McMahon
Medical Coordination Balkan Projects
As Medical Coordinator of our Balkan Projects, Orlagh supports the medical teams on the ground, coordinates daily work and is available to our volunteers for questions. With her expertise, she helps make access to healthcare possible for people on the move.
Contact
balkan@medical-solidarity.org
Judith Fischer
Coordination Greece Projects
As Coordinator of our Greece Projects, Judith keeps the different strands of our work on the ground connected. She coordinates teams and projects, stays closely connected with our partners and helps ensure that our support reaches people where it is needed. Together with the teams on the ground, she works for solidarity, access to healthcare and the rights of people on the move.
Contact
athens@medical-solidarity.org
Donors and partners
It would not be possible for our volunteers in Greece, Bulgaria, Bosnia and the Mediterranean Sea to do what they do without the wonderful support and help of great partner organisations and generous donors. Whether it is collecting and transporting donations in kind for our work on the ground, providing space for our clinics, actual cooperation on individual projects or financial support in the form of a grant – we would like to say THANK YOU for the great and long-term support we receive time and time again.
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Why Donate?
Our work is only possible because people choose to support it.
Donations enable us to purchase the materials needed for our projects and to deploy our teams where people urgently need support. We keep our administrative costs as low as possible so that our available resources can go directly into our projects.
Around half of the people we reach are undocumented and therefore often have very limited access to existing support services. Without our work, many of them would not be reached and would be left to deal with their problems and needs on their own.
Your donation enables us to provide concrete support on the ground: information and orientation, first aid, psychosocial support, social assistance, mobile outreach, community outreach and referrals to appropriate medical, social and public services.
Your donation helps us reach people who would otherwise fall through the cracks.
Donations Account
Medical Solidarity International e.V.
IBAN DE08430609672076077900
BIC GENODEM1GLS
GLS BANK
We are happy about every donation! If you make a donation intended for a specific project or for one of our locations, we will make every effort to use it for that purpose.
If this is not possible, your donation will be used for other projects or locations that are also in need of funding.
The easiest way to help us is with a so-called “general” donation, i.e. a donation that does not have a specific purpose.