Our Mission
Restoring dignity and rebuilding lives
Mission - Restore Dignity and Rebuild Lives
For more than two decades, NATAN Worldwide Disaster Relief has operated with a deliberately focused and distinctive model. We are a volunteer-based medical humanitarian organization, deploying small, highly skilled teams of practicing doctors, nurses, dentists, psychologists, social workers, and emergency professionals into moments of acute strain — when local systems are overwhelmed and rapid, high-quality intervention can make a meaningful difference.
What makes NATAN unique is our clinical precision and agility. We are not a large-scale humanitarian implementer; rather, we bring experienced medical and mental health professionals into urgent gaps, integrate respectfully with local systems, and exit responsibly once stability begins to return. Our volunteers are active professionals, bringing current field knowledge and real-world expertise into complex humanitarian environments.
Our Vision
NATAN aims to strengthen global solidarity by enhancing the well-being of communities affected by disasters. We demonstrate the commitment of Jewish and Israeli civil society by empowering local populations, fostering resilience, and building a better future through collaborative and sustainable relief efforts.
Our Inspiration - Humanitarian Abie Nathan
Natan Worldwide Disaster Relief was founded to carry on the legacy of the Israeli humanitarian activist Abie Nathan
Abie Nathan was a man of peace and a man of action. As a combat pilot, he saw the death and destruction caused by war and vowed to try to help humanity.|
The Peace Flight: On February 28, 1966 Abie flew to Egypt on an unauthorized peace mission, his own private initiative. He piloted a small plane on which he painted the word “peace” in Hebrew, English and Arabic.
Humanitarian Action: On the 28th of October 1966 he flew to India to assist the victims of the drought in Bihar. In the city of Patna he rented trucks, and for three days distributed 10 tons of corn to the inhabitants of 35 villages.
In 1968 Abie established the Fund for the Children of Biafra, raising funds in the Netherlands and sending food and powdered milk to Biafra via Nigeria.
In 1973, Nathan founded the Voice of Peace radio station. the “Peace Ship” broadcast pop music and messages of peace 24 hours a day,
Helping Refugees: In January 1979 Abie was instrumental in getting Israel to absorb 100 child refugees from the Vietnamese war.