Premiere Urgence Internationale

Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people in order to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency.

The association leads, on average, 190 projects each year in the following sectors of intervention: food security, health, nutrition, construction and rehabilitation of infrastructures, water, sanitation, hygiene and economic recovery. PUI is providing assistance to around 5 million people in 21 countries – in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and France.

PUI has started implementing operations in East of Libya since 2017. To date, PUI’s interventions is focusing on health care through the deployment of Mobile Health Teams (MHT), which deliver direct services to internal displaced populations and their host communities, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the eastern cities of the country. Thus, PUI enhances access to primary health care services via the provision of comprehensive primary health care package free of charge including a range of curative and preventive medical services. This consists on general practitioners consultations on both common communicable and non-communicable diseases, adequate treatment provision, sexual and reproductive health services, integrated management of Childhood Illness, psychosocial support interventions including individual consultations and group sessions. Furthermore, PUI is reinforcing sensitization, communication and prevention on health and hygiene related topics within the above mentioned communities.