Blogs & Stories

© Joyce CHING During the nine months that I worked in the remote Somali region of Ethiopia, I sometimes met Chinese working for a petroleum extraction company. They travelled half way across the globe to work for Sinopec to extract oil in this...

© Joyce CHING In June 2006, I started my journey to Ethiopia in the horn of Africa to work for MSF, and stayed there for 9 months. MSF had set up a medical centre in a small town called Cherrati in Somali region in Ethiopia to provide basic medical...

Read the scanned letter/ Page 1 Hi all, How have you been? I hope that you’re doing O.K. Please say “Hi” to all MSF-HK for me. I’m writing this letter from El Fasher, North Sudan to tell you that I’m doing fine here and all is well. Tomorrow it will...

© Roy Anthony COSICO Greetings from Sierra Leone It has been a month since I arrived here. And yet, it seemed only yesterday when I arrived at the Lungli Airport and took the ferry to Freetown. Since then, I have settled well in Kambia. MSF has been...

© Erwin GUILLERGAN Dear friends, Hello! I would like relate my story in Amharic (just to brag – hahahaha!) but of course, no one could understand it. I have been here for 3 months now and I feel quite confident in speaking the language. In fact,...