Before joining MSF I worked in emergency responses with other humanitarian organisations, including conflict in Libya and food crisis in Yemen, as well as refugees in Syria’s neighbouring countries and typhoons in the Philippines. I’ve spent the last decade moving around the globe, for work and personal travel.
I spent last year in the Central African Republic with MSF, working on two different projects, where I discovered my love of helping to land small planes on air strips carved out of the orange dust.
As a Brit, when I am overseas I miss seasons and carpets, whilst Marmite, teabags and fairy lights are the three essential items in my ‘’survival kit’’.
“You could throw a stone anywhere into North Kivu and wherever it lands there will be unmet needs.” I have heard this being said countless times and it sums up the reason that MSF is in DRC and why the North Kivu Emergency Response Unit exists. We are here to respond to anything from cholera and measles outbreaks, to malaria epidemics, malnutrition and the needs of displaced people who are fleeing conflict in the province.
As project coordinator, my job is to lead the team in assessing needs, and setting up and managing responses whenever a crisis arises.
