In just a few hours we will be cramming into the car and driving 2000km due north to the Yukon for 3 weeks of hiking in a tiny corner of Canada’s immense northern wilderness.
Well, enough about all the wonderful things that everyone else is doing here in Chad….let me tell you about all the wonderful things I have been doing lately.
On a 7 hour car ride straight north into the expanding reaches of the Sahel desert, I try in vain to snooze in the back seat. Every now and then, I open my eyes to the marvels of a camel caravan a
Guillaume is one of five Congolese expats currently working in our Chad program – two doctors, two nurses and our interim Medical Coordinator. Like the Canadians, the Congolese easily outnumber an
The French word for midwife is “sage femme”, which translates literally as “wise woman”. Nothing could better describe our sage femme here in the Am Timan, the expat supervisor for the maternity d
In MSF, we are thrown into situations that, in the short slice of time that we witness, seem quite bleak and often hopeless. I am slowly understanding that this outlook results more because we aut
