How Aid Works

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How Aid Works

More than food and water

Nuran Higgins knows how hard it can be to live from hand to mouth, not knowing where the next...

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Poo is not taboo

No matter whether you’re on a remote Pacific Island or in Syria’s largest city, toilets are...

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What does a tap mean?

Just once, try this: Walk a kilometre downhill, fill three buckets with water and carry them back...

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Piles of cash and the balance of life

To run an Ebola treatment you need big piles of cash. In this age of plastic cards and electronic...

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Switching realities

One minute you’re in the Himalayas of northern Pakistan helping communities recover from...

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World's most dangerous animal

Every day, silent plagues of mosquito-borne diseases are killing thousands around the globe and...

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Passing the baton

What’s it like having an aid worker for a father? How does that change the way you see the world?...

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Fighting 18th century diseases in 2017

Why the hell does cholera still exist? Libby Bowell, who’s been tackling preventable and...

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More intelligent aid

Is it time for more intelligent aid?  Red Cross International Director, Peter Walton, reflects on...

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Navigating a cultural minefield

Imagine facing thousands of people needing shelter after an earthquake. Then imaging trying to...

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Modern day Florence Nightingales (part two)

Modern day Florence Nightingales explore the big questions in emergency health: how do you...

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Modern day Florence Nightingales (part one)

Three Florence Nightingale Medal recipients reveal what it means to follow in the footsteps of...

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Congratulations! You’re forever a misfit

The mission’s over. Time to catch up with your mates and a season’s worth of Game of Thrones....

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Advice to my younger self

Learn to manage risk, because someone will shoot at you. Stop being so damn idealistic. Sit back...

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Equifinality

What could possibly go wrong on a relief mission? Well… border disputes, power outages, strikes,...

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Love in the hot zone

Listen up, Humanitarians of Tinder! It can be hard to maintain relationships with family, let...

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A water stop in an apocalypse

How do you feel watching families flee in an apocalyptic sea of people? How do you cope with an...

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The coffin on the bus and other tales of horror

Sometimes you’re faced with a carful of corpses. Sometimes you have to drive the body of a bomb...

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4 minutes to save the world

Every minute is a matter of life or death when a disaster strikes or a conflict breaks out. Aid...

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A week of terror and inadequacy

This week we look at your very first mission as an aid worker: whether it’s Pakistan after an...

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