Blogs & Stories

Felipe Reyes is a psychologist with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Mexico. He provides psychological first aid (PFA) through a psychological helpline to migrants and asylum seekers. Reyes tells the story of one of his...

With a COVID-19 lockdown in place, Seinn Seinn and the team have to find new ways to reach the community. But as she explains, necessity truly is "the mother of invention." Halfway into my first assignment with MSF, a pandemic broke out. As the...

Seinn Seinn Min is a health promoter with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who has recently returned from a posting in Pakistan. She shares her experience… I am writing from Myanmar, inside the hotel room assigned to me for...

Barthelemy is a Burundian refugee and staff member with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Nduta camp, northwestern Tanzania, where MSF is the sole healthcare provider for 75,000 refugees. As a refugee himself, Barthelemy...

In 2017, the world’s attention focused on Myanmar’s Rohingya, ethnic Muslims who are today the largest stateless group in the world. The horrific violence against them in Northern Rakhine, together with the dramatic footage of their displacement to...