French

Fieldset

Pakistan: Remote management, team structure and training

Flavien is a log admin from France, currently working with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Pakistan. After five months of “remote management” from a base in Islamabad, he is about to travel to his project in the town of Chaman, on the border with Afghanistan. In this blog post, he compares some aspects of his second assignment with his first one.

02 Jan 2019

An MSF landcruiser driving through a river in CAR

Antoine Clogne

Logistician

Termite time: A day with a community outreach team

Supply logistician Antoine is in the Central African Republic, joining a Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) community outreach team on a trip to a remote village health centre.

03 Dec 2018

Antoine Clogne

Logistician

Logistics: Busy weeks in Bossangoa

How do our teams make sure they have everything they need to save lives? Supply logistician Antoine takes us behind the scenes in the Central African Republic.

22 Oct 2018

Antoine Clogne

Logistician

Landing an airplane in Bossangoa

Antoine has recently arrived in the Central African Republic, where his role is to ensure that the project has the vital supplies it needs to function. Recently however, he's been taking on some additional responsibilities...

20 Sep 2018

The emergency room at the Bossangoa hospital

Antoine Clogne

Logistician

Supply logistics in the Central African Republic: First week of work

In Bossangoa, in the west of the Central African Republic, Antoine has joined the Medecines Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders team during the peak season for malaria. He blogs…

17 Sep 2018

The MSF compound in Bossangoa, Central African Republic

Antoine Clogne

Logistician

Central African Republic: First Days in Bossangoa

Supply logistician Antoine blogs from Bossangoa in the Central African Republic, where he’s just arrived to begin his first assignment with MSF/Doctors Without Borders...

04 Sep 2018

Antoine Clogne

Logistician

Central African Republic: Arrival and first impressions

Antoine arrives in the Central African Republic to begin his first assignment with MSF/Doctors Without Borders…

26 Aug 2018

Alice Gautreau

Midwife

VLOG: Becoming the only midwife on board a search and rescue vessel

"It will be very challenging, but I feel ready"

26 Jul 2017

Alice Gautreau

Midwife

Another Alice - On the delivery ward in DRC

Alice is a midwife working in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country that has been badly affected by conflict.

24 Jun 2016

Alice Gautreau

Midwife

Off to MSF-land

My room is chaos. Boxes on top of boxes on top of more boxes, and books and clothes and a million things I have accumulated over the years.

05 Apr 2016

John Brooke

Doctor

Reflections on Malaria

It was mid-May when we arrived at Moissala, a small country town in the south of Chad.

04 Jan 2016

John Brooke

Doctor

Becoming a “Small Game Hunter”

We have all seen the faded photographs depicting the success of the “Big Game Hunter” of the Victorian era: well dressed, well fed, often mustached; a shotgun in the crook of the arm and one leg fl

10 Dec 2015