MSF health promoter Aisha is working in the three camps in the White Nile region, Sudan, supporting communities of internally displaced people and refugees. I can’t find the right words to describe the conditions people are living in. I’ve witnessed women giving birth and caring for their newborns in overcrowded and overheated tents, without access […]
Read More… from Sudan: “The scale of the needs here is overwhelming”
Interview, from Derna, with Michel Olivier Lacharité, MSF Head of Emergency. Two weeks after Storm Daniel caused devastating floods that engulfed Derna and killed thousands in a few hours, search and rescue operations are about to end and reconstruction is starting. The need for psychological relief is immense among Derna’s people. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans […]
Read More… from Libya: MSF doctors and psychologists bring support to a mourning city
In the bitterly cold Afghan winter, lower-income families face unexpected risks as they struggle to keep warm. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) nurse Diana Pereira de Sousa shares the story from Kunduz, a city in northern Afghanistan … “Can you come to the ER? It’s urgent.” The call was from Boyd, one of our […]
Adam R. Houston, Medical Policy & Advocacy officer & Jason Nickerson, Humanitarian Representative to Canada On Aug. 24, 2023, the Canadian government finally released an outcomes document from the Pandemic Instrument Partner and Stakeholder Engagement Forum it held March 21 to 22, with more than 160 participants from multiple sectors. We both attended representing Doctors Without […]
For hundreds of thousands of displaced people living in camps around Goma, survival is a daily struggle, especially for women. Every day, around 701 women who are survivors of sexual assault present themselves at the structures set up by MSF in the Lushagala, Bulengo, Elohim, Shabindu, Rusayo and Kanyaruchinya sites – an unacceptable situation. The […]
Read More… from DRC: The daily struggles of women in Goma’s displacement camps
Since floods lashed eastern Libya more than a week ago, estimated figures are that nearly 10,000 people are missing and at least 5,000 people are dead. Derna, a port city in eastern Libya, was the worst hit after two dams burst killing thousands. According to the UN, about 30,000 people — one third of its […]
In Jonglei state, northeastern South Sudan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are rushing four critically ill patients by ambulance boat to the MSF hospital in Old Fangak. Among the people on the boat, Nya Sibet Mar is holding her two-year-old daughter, Nya Thor, who is suffering from severe malaria. It is the second […]
Abbreviated from article by Judith Hunt, teacher at Camosun College. In August 2021, nine students travelled from Kenya to Victoria, British Columbia to participate in a project in collaboration with World University Services Canada. The students, who are refugees, read about Terry Fox’s cross Canada run for cancer research, then discussed as a class: “If […]
Read More… from Inspirational Stories: Students put heart into collective effort
William “Grit” Laskin, a Canadian guitar maker, has combined his passions for guitar making and supporting MSF by creating a beautiful guitar depicting MSF’s work through inlay art. He sold the guitar and donated the proceeds to MSF. “I’m just one person who has been lucky in his career,” says Grit. “I was happily in […]
Read More… from Inspirational Stories: Changing ways of giving
An intergenerational group of McGill University doctors and medical students, who share a passion for the healing power of both medicine and music, came together in Montreal in April 2022 to perform a benefit concert in support of Ukraine and MSF’s general fund. Attended by over 500 people, including many from Montreal’s Ukrainian community, the event […]
Read More… from Inspirational Stories: Channeling the power of music