Nuran Higgins knows how hard it can be to live from hand to mouth, not knowing where the next...
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Nuran Higgins knows how hard it can be to live from hand to mouth, not knowing where the next...
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No matter whether you’re on a remote Pacific Island or in Syria’s largest city, toilets are...
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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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One minute you’re in the Himalayas of northern Pakistan helping communities recover from...
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Every day, silent plagues of mosquito-borne diseases are killing thousands around the globe and...
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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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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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Learn to manage risk, because someone will shoot at you. Stop being so damn idealistic. Sit back...
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What could possibly go wrong on a relief mission? Well… border disputes, power outages, strikes,...
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Listen up, Humanitarians of Tinder! It can be hard to maintain relationships with family, let...
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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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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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