MSF Blogs From the Field

Find out first hand what it is like for the MSF field staff who work on our projects around the world.

These blogs are written by a whole host of different people working in a variety of jobs from some of the most inaccessible and difficult places there are. They provide a unique insight into the lives of the people who are on the frontline of MSF's life-saving work.

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Programme Coordinator 101 / Coordination de Projet 101

From a blog by: Edith Fortier, Project Coordinator

Date: 13/11/2008

Programme Coordinator 101 (en / fr) I’ve been back on the field almost a month now, and filled with energy and idealism, I’ve started to really sink my teeth into the project and the work of a PC. But I have to admit, it’s been a steep learning curve ! For several reasons, I feel way out of my comfort zone, while in other...

This little girl / Cette petite fille

From a blog by: Edith Fortier, Project Coordinator

Date: 23/09/2008

This little girl (en / fr) I've been wanting to write about this little girl since the day I met her, on my very first day in Birao. However, I’ve had this mental block about it that started perhaps a minute after… This little girl is very special. She is, indeed, my very first “patient”. We struggled as a team to...

Julia Payson, MSF Finance and HR Coordinator

i've moved

From a blog by: Julia Payson, Finance and HR

Date: 12/09/2008

to here... my new blog for msf while i'm in png!

Final Entry: Who’ll Stop the Rain?

From a blog by: Dr. Lauralee Morris

Date: 04/09/2008

The rain has just started. It sounds like artillery fire on the metal roof of the logistics building. If it continues much longer, there will be no plane tomorrow. Everyone is here, taking refuge from the storm. No Woman, No Cry issues thinly from someone’s laptop. No one speaks, they are all intent on their reports and paperwork. ...

Zak

From a blog by: Dr. Lauralee Morris

Date: 01/09/2008

Zakaria Mwatia is our base nurse. He is from Kenya and has worked in Sudan, Kenya and Somalia. He is deeply committed to his work and will always go the extra mile to do the right thing for patients. I often see Zak going back to the hospital after hours to check on this or that patient. He works with unfailing good humor, quiet diplomacy and is...

Kala Azar, MSF and Francis

From a blog by: Dr. Lauralee Morris

Date: 27/08/2008

And there they were, right under the microscope lens, just the way I had seen them in books and prepared slides in my tropical medicine training. Amastigotes, the tissue form of Leishmania donovani, the parasite that causes Kala Azar (KA) in southern Sudan. Sammy, our lab supervisor, had prepared the slide from a patient suspected of having a...

Alumni of the January 2008 PPD in Bonn

From a blog by: Dr. Lauralee Morris

Date: 23/08/2008

MSF provides first missioners with an introductory course prior to going to the field. It’s called the Pre-preparation Departure Course, PPD for short; I did my course in Bonn, Germany in January this year. The course was multidisciplinary and included people with diverse backgrounds in medicine, logistics, administration and...

The Emergency Congo Team at work. May 2008.

Photo by Pascale Zintzen/MSF

My Kansimba vaccination experience

From a blog by: Congo Emergency Team members

Date: 22/08/2008

Let me begin by introducing myself: my name is Nan Hsin and Iâ€™m 27 years old. I was born in Taiwan but my earliest childhood memories are from Brazil, where I went on to study medicine at the University of Sao Paulo, followed by two years specialising in internal medicine. Iâ€™m not exactly sure what [...]

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MSF Blogs From the Field

Latest blog entries

Programme Coordinator 101 / Coordination de Projet 101

From a blog by: Edith Fortier, Project Coordinator

This little girl / Cette petite fille

From a blog by: Edith Fortier, Project Coordinator

i've moved

From a blog by: Julia Payson, Finance and HR

Final Entry: Who’ll Stop the Rain?

From a blog by: Dr. Lauralee Morris

Zak

From a blog by: Dr. Lauralee Morris

Kala Azar, MSF and Francis

From a blog by: Dr. Lauralee Morris

Alumni of the January 2008 PPD in Bonn

From a blog by: Dr. Lauralee Morris

My Kansimba vaccination experience

From a blog by: Congo Emergency Team members

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