refugee camp

When it comes to reaching vulnerable people in a crisis, our teams rely on accurate, up-to-date maps. However these can be hard to come by. Mapping specialist Andries Heyns has recently returned from Sudan, where a refugee crisis has been evolving rapidly...

06 Sep 2021 / 9 minute read

Workers build a temporary triage and isolation area as MSF steps up preparedness measures for COVID-19 at Nduta refugee camp in northwest Tanzania.

Pete Clausen

Country Management Team

"The spread could be impossible to stop": Preparing for COVID-19 in a refugee camp

How do you prepare a camp with over 73,000 Burundian refugees and limited access to healthcare for COVID-19? From Tanzania, Pete reveals how an outbreak could impact Nduta refugee camp, in the country's northwest, as the new coronavirus disease spreads throughout Africa.

15 Apr 2020 / 4 minute read

About 8,000 people live in the overcrowded Vathy refugee camp on the island of Samos, which was built to accommodate only 650 people

Blogs Team

Five eye-opening blogs from Doctors Without Borders - March 2020

COVID-19, Ebola, detention in Libya, the Greek refugee crisis - our teams are responding to humanitarian healthcare crises across the world. Hear from our staff working both on the ground and behind the scenes in this collection of eye-opening blogs.

25 Mar 2020 / 6 minute read

Vathy refugee camp on Samos was built for 650 people but currently hosts about 8,000

Valeska Cordier

Communications

Greek refugee crisis: "How could this ever become normality?"

The horrific conditions in refugee camps on the Greek islands have made headlines around the world. But, nothing can prepare MSF communications specialist Valeska for what she finds when she visits two camps on Samos and Lesvos...

11 Mar 2020 / 8 minute read

Greece

Refugee

Blogs Team

These 7 personal posts from Doctors Without Borders will take you inside the Rohingya Crisis

In August 2017, unprecedented numbers of people began to cross the border from Myanmar to Bangladesh. They were Rohingya - a persecuted minority in Myanmar - and they were fleeing killings, house burnings and targeted attacks. Over 900,000 of them made the journey, and two years later they remain stuck in the world's largest refugee camp, unable to build new lives and equally unable to return home.

23 Aug 2019 / 6 minute read

Conor Kenny

Doctor

A lost generation - working with young refugees in Greece

Conor has recently returned from Greece where he was based in a refugee camp designated for the most vulnerable refugees on the island. He reports to a camp set up for unaccompanied children - a safe space for children who arrive without any adult family members, who are waiting to be relocated to the mainland. He witnesses first hand the impact on vunerable youngsters - medical and psychological.

05 Aug 2016 / 5 minute read

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