Blogs & Stories

Sherwan Qasem is an emergency officer currently based in MSF's office in Amsterdam. Originally from Syria, he was forced to take refuge in Türkiye in 2012. He began working with MSF in Türkiye as a translator. After this, he worked in a number of...

Another bustling day in the operating theatre concluded with a bone fracture fixation surgery for an eight-year-old girl. Upon her admission to the emergency room, we performed an initial consultation and physical examination. We found out that she...

After enduring the COVID-19 pandemic, I returned to work at the MSF Hospital in Bentiu, South Sudan, three years later. I still vividly recall my time providing health care here in early 2020, when South Sudan had yet to experience the impact of the...

On the Greek island of Lesbos, people who have sought safety in Europe are being pushed to the brink, with no way to begin rebuilding their lives, and no information about their futures. Johanna Bogren is an MSF psychologist who has been working in...

In the town of Abyei, there is an electric atmosphere rivalling that of any World Cup match. This football field, however, serves as a witness to community engagement, woven into life by the MSF team. Abdulrahman Khaleel was two months into his role...