Labia UMPAN is a religious leader from Ambachang Gadang, a village in the hills close to Pariaman that was partly swept away by a landslide. Twelve people died in the village, eight of them from the same family. "All we want is to leave. We ask the government to move us to a safer place. We are too...
Ten days after an earthquake struck the island of Sumatra, a considerable amount of aid is already coming in to the Indonesian island. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is therefore focusing its efforts on people who live in areas that have received little aid. Some heavily affected villages are still...
MSF teams currently providing medical and relief aid in Asia Pacific after several natural disasters are integrating mental health care into their activities. More than a week after the traumatic events, they are beginning training local counsellors as well as giving direct psychological support...
The Philippines: MSF teams assessing the situation in the northern Philippines as typhoon Parma loops back Médecins Sans Frontières medical doctors and logisticians are currently assessing the situation on the main island of Luzon, as typhoon Parma continues to rain on the northern Philippines...
After nearly a week of assessments carried out in Samoa following the tsunami of 29 September, the small Médecins Sans Frontières team has found that the vast majority of medical and non-medical needs have been covered. An impressive international aid response has meant that food, water and...
Dr Natasha Reyes-TICZON, a Filipino doctor sent out from MSF Hong Kong, is working with emergency team to provide medical assistance in flooding areas in Philippines. Here she talks about her work on the front line. What did you do today(Oct 6)? MSF’s mobile clinic today was in Pasig City, in...
Marlene Lee, an MSF psychologist, made an exploratory mission to one of the worst affected areas of the Sumatra earthquake. This is her report. “Several villages around Tandikat, up in the hills north of Pariaman, were devastated by a landslide after the earthquake. Everything is gone and aid has...
Calls on public support to emergency relief work More than 60 Médecins Sans Frontières surgeons, doctors, nurses, logisticians and others are currently part of the substantial international and local aid effort in Manila in the Philippines, Padang in Indonesia and Samoa in the South Pacific. 45...
