Letters from the field

Our volunteers regularly write to us describing their lives working for MSF in the field - below, you can read their accounts.

You can also search for specific letters by using the search option to the right. For instance, you could try a search for "Malaria" to view letters relating to that particular disease. 

 

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People have no choice but to continue to live in flooded dwellings
© April Baller/MSF

Sink or swim in the Dirty River

Date: 01/04/2008

Simon Midgely, a mental health officer from Northumberland, on the dangers posed by floodwaters in Colombia: what is even in ordinary times one of the wettest places on earth.

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Zoe is an expert in water and sanitation
© Zoe Young

Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Date: 01/11/2007

Zoe Young originally from London is a specialist in water and sanitation. She flew to Angola in April 2006 to help to control an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus and to the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC in September 2007 to do the same in an Ebola outbreak.

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© Anna Kent

A Bundle of Babies

Date: 01/09/2007

Anna Kent, a nurse from Nottingham, is working for MSF in the Western Upper Nile region of southern Sudan.

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Nicola Fenn
© Nicola Fenn

Rain inside my collar

Date: 01/08/2007

Nicola Fenn, a British nurse, worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her main role was to educate local community volunteers on the basics of diagnosis and care for malaria, diarrhoea and other diseases. She had to travel a lot, not always happily...

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© Anna Kent

The Power of Positive Thinking

Date: 01/08/2007

Anna Kent, a nurse from Nottingham, is working for MSF in the Western Upper Nile region of southern Sudan.

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