Logistics

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Logistics

To save lives in a crisis, our teams need the right supplies and equipment. They need vehicles to get them where they need to be, power to keep the lights on, and hospitals and clinic buildings that can ensure our patients get the best possible care in often challenging circumstances.

Logistics is the practical support our medics need: from supply to transport, security to construction. In a humanitarian emergency, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) logistics teams make sure we can respond quickly and effectively.

Flavien Mercier

Logistician

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 / 7 minute read

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 / 4 minute read

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 / 3 minute read

An MSF land cruiser and quad bike in South Sudan

Alexandra Schuster

Logistician

My life as a flying mechanic in South Sudan

Alexandra Schuster works as a “flying mechanic” in South Sudan, travelling across the country to provide the urgent technical support that can keep a remote medical project running. In this blog, she shares her thoughts on her first ever mission with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

30 Aug 2018 / 4 minute read

Zeeshan Danish

Logistician

“It tests your flexibility”: Training MSF logistics teams around the world

Zeeshan is a deputy logistics coordinator from Malakand in Pakistan. He works to supply resources to vital humanitarian projects run by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) across the country. In this blog, he shares his love of going on “detachment” with MSF, training teams in other projects around the world.

16 Aug 2018 / 4 minute read

MSF vehicles travelling through the mud in DRC

Pol Heredero

Logistician

Logistics: “In DRC nothing is constant”

"The one thing I knew about DRC was that it would be a challenge."

28 Jun 2018 / 3 minute read

Holger Hornauf

Logistician

Getting creative: Building a new generator from several broken ones

Holger Harnauf is a qualified car mechanic. In 2016 he spent six months on his first posting with MSF/Doctors Without Borders in the Central African Republic. One year later he’s back in Bangui and is blogging about his experiences...

17 Dec 2017 / 2 minute read

Holger Hornauf

Logistician

My first week in Bangui: A warm welcome!

Holger Hornauf is a trained auto mechanic and in 2016 he went on his first assignment with MSF / Doctors Without Borders in the Central African Republic. One year later he’s back in Bangui as our workshop manager and is blogging about his experiences...

07 Dec 2017 / 3 minute read

Kimberly Cremers

Pharmacist

A pharmacist in Uganda: Cold Chain

"Before MSF I would have said a cold chain was 'the process of keeping your beer cold while tailgating at an Ohio State football game'."

21 Jun 2017 / 4 minute read

Jake Leyland

Diary of a street fundraiser: joining the team behind the team

MSF teams provide emergency medical care in epidemics, natural disasters and conflict zones around the world. We send medicines, equipment and highly trained staff. To keep doing it, we need ordinary people to donate what they can. In his first blog, Jake writes about what he's learnt since joining MSF UK's street fundraising team...

02 Jun 2017 / 3 minute read

Haydn Williams

Project Coordination

Becoming a logistician: How did I get here?

Haydn is a project coordinator in one of MSF’s emergency teams. He blogs about how he got started, and about the assignment that made him realise it was more than just a job...

01 Sep 2016 / 6 minute read

Kim Comer

Logistician

Practical test

Kim is a logistician working for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Chad. She blogs about about the mental gymnastics needed to do her job everyday...

09 Sep 2014 / 3 minute read