“We need you to go there straight away” : life in the emergency unit in DRC
"I’m staring at the laptop screen, trying to make sense of the list of Congolese towns and villages people are moving between. I’ve only been here in DRC for two weeks, and the names are heavy with...
View Article'My body is aching for a tiny stretch of flat tarmac': on the road in DRC
Emily is a project coordinator in North Kivu, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She's part of the emergency response unit, which works fast to respond to the most urgent...
View ArticlePhoto blog: setting up emergency malaria clinics
Malaria is a life-threatening illness which has been affecting increasing numbers of people in North Kivu, in the DRC. Emily is part of the emergency response unit there, and sent us this photo blog...
View ArticlePhoto blog: Emergency malaria clinics up and running
Malaria kills around 660,000 people a year, world-wide. When the number of cases in North Kivu reached emergency levels, Emily and the rest of the team had to work fast to set up mobile malaria clinics...
View ArticlePhoto blog: malaria prevention is better than cure
Malaria is preventable, detectable and treatable. However, it still kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. In her last posts, Emily kept a photo diary as she and her team set up and ran two...
View ArticleDowntime
Emily is a project coordinator for MSF, which means she's on call 24 hours a day, managing the team, security and operations. She blogs about what it's like to try to find a balance between work and...
View ArticleA weekend in the life of a field worker
Emily is a project coordinator for MSF, which means she's on call 24 hours a day, managing the team, security and operations. With so much to do, field workers like Emily don't get a lot of free time....
View Article"To continue to focus on our patients, we need to look after ourselves too"
I felt strange when I got back from DRC. Going by the other times I've come home after an assignment, it's normal to feel a bit weird when you come back, but this time it was different.Read more
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