Blogs & Stories
Mar 29, 2018
When I knew that the destination of my first mission was Afghanistan, I must admit that I was a bit nervous. It was a challenge travelling from a stable and secure city to a war-ridden country. The position I held was Flying Human Resources Manager...
Feb 16, 2018
Kate Nolan, MSF emergency coordinator in Bangladesh Bangladesh has received nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees since 25 August 2017. They join tens of thousands who were already in the country from previous periods of tension and violence in...
Oct 25, 2017
Since August 2017, near 600,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have crossed the border to escape violence there. Ian Cross is a doctor working with Doctor Without Borders / MSF in a health clinic treating refugees. He shares the story of a very...
Oct 06, 2017
Kate White, Emergency Medical Coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières in Bangladesh “Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of people crammed along a narrow peninsula trying to find what shelter they can. It’s essentially a massive rural slum...
Sep 29, 2017
The first surprise was the sheer size of the attack on Marawi City by pro- Islamic State fighters. The crisis since – with 360,000 people displaced, and heavy combat into its fifth month – is equally unprecedented, leaving the Mindanao region of the...