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Field posts are blogs on the trials, tribulations, hopes and happy coincidences that come with working in the field. Tell us your story - email: globaldevpros@theguardian.com

12 June 2017

  • An health official measures the arm circumference of a child at a Unicef clinic near Diwka, Borno State, in February 2017.

    Nigeria's food crisis: by the time famine is declared, it's too late

    The UN’s appeal to assist people in north-east Nigeria is too late to avert a disaster eight years in the making. And now the money is set to run out

11 April 2017

  • A plea for peace painted on the wall in Homs

    View from Damascus: rebuilding in the midst of war

    British Red Cross press officer Penny Sims has been in Syria for the last four months and shares what she saw

19 January 2017

  • Boy walks on the rubble of a house destroyed by a recent Saudi-led air strike in the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen

    When I heard warplanes, I never thought our hospital was the target

    One MSF worker describes her struggle to make sense of a bombing in Yemen that left one colleagues dead and others wounded

5 October 2016

  • #NotaTarget tshirt

    Healthcare in Afghanistan: ‘Doctors are threatened at gunpoint, even by civilians’

    Doctors, nurses and their families are routinely attacked, disrupting the delivery of medical care and putting the healthcare system in danger of collapse

1 August 2016

  • Kujiek and one of his aunts catch up. Kujiek returned home to Ganyiel, South Sudan in May, after 16 years away.

    My return to South Sudan: I want to see opportunities for all

    I left my country in 2000 for a better life. Now, with a university education, I want to help create a better South Sudan

27 July 2016

  • In this March 11, 2012 photo, a woman who was injured during a shooting at a pool hall gets emergency medical attention from doctors and nurses at the Catalino Rivas Public Hospital in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. A wave of violence has made Honduras among the most dangerous places on Earth, with a homicide rate roughly 20 times that of the U.S. rate, according to a 2011 United Nations report. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

    Field post: 'Honduras has one of the world's highest rates of urban violence'

    The situation in hospitals is dire – patients wait hours, sometimes sleeping overnight in corridors to be first in the queue for their injuries to be treated

21 July 2016

  • A protester write on the facade of the Ministry of Justice building with color spray during an anti-government protest in Skopje on May 20, 2016, in a series of protests dubbed Colourful Revolution. Crisis-hit Macedonia postponed elections due next month, after the European Union called on Skopje to delay the polls to ensure they could take place freely and fairly. / AFP PHOTO / Robert ATANASOVSKIROBERT ATANASOVSKI/AFP/Getty Images

    Activism in Macedonia: 'Intimidation is just the tip of the iceberg'

    The space for activists in Macedonia has shrunk to a point that it has to be completely rebuilt, says environmental campaigner Ana Colovic

8 June 2016

  • A woman carries water at a camp for internally displaced people near Sanaa, Yemen.

    Yemen: 'Some people are living on one piece of bread a day'

    As fighting continues, rising food prices and scarce resources are leaving many struggling to find enough food to survive

26 May 2016

  • Smoke billows in the background as Iraqi pro-government forces advance towards the city of Fallujah on May 23, 2016, as part of a major assault to retake the city from Islamic State (IS) group. Iraqi forces, consisting of special forces, soldiers, police, militia forces and pro-government tribesmen, launched a major assault to retake Fallujah, the scene of deadly battles during the US occupation and one of the toughest targets yet in Baghdad's war on the Islamic State group. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, announced the start of operations in the middle of the night and then visited the battle's operations room. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYEAHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images

    Fallujah siege: 'Families are surviving on dried dates and river water'

    After two years of occupation by armed military groups, Iraqi forces have launched a major push to retake the city of Fallujah. Becky Bakr Abdulla from the Norwegian Refugee Council tells of the families caught up in the conflict

15 April 2016

  • In this Wednesday, March 16, 2016 photo, a Syrian refugee girl begs for money on a sidewalk outside a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. It is one of the most visible signs of the refugee crisis that has put an immense strain on neighboring countries and destabilized Europe. On Lebanon shopping streets, roundabouts and traffic lights, child beggars are seen pressing their small faces against windows of cars, stretching their hands for money or selling chewing gum or flowers. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

    'It never seemed to be enough': treating the mental health of refugees

    One aid worker in the refugee camps of Lebanon fears that needs are still growing while funds run low

29 March 2016

  • Marie at a mobile clinic

    Haiti field post: my life as a midwife

    There is a great shortage of midwives in Haiti, I trained as one to help ensure women and babies survive childbirth

21 March 2016

  • A Yemeni child stands inside his house which was damaged several months ago in an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition, on March 12, 2016, in the capital Sanaa. Saudi Arabia and several of its Sunni Arab allies launched air strikes on March 26 last year after the Huthis, a Shiite group from Yemen's north, seized control of large parts of the country including the capital Sanaa. The United Nations says more than 80 percent of the population is in dire need of food, medicine and other basic necessities and the crisis ranks as a "Level 3 emergency", the most serious in the UN system. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAISMOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images

    Life amid conflict in Yemen: ‘Everyone has forgotten us’

    More than 80% of the population is now in need of humanitarian aid. On a visit to the capital Sana’a, Karl Schembri spoke to families struggling to cope

16 March 2016

  • South Sudanese civilians flee fighting in an UN base in the north-eastern town of Malakal on 18 February 2016.

    'Leaving patients behind is the hardest thing': when fighting reached an MSF hospital in South Sudan

    A first-hand account of how MSF staff were forced to abandon their patients as fighting reached a UN compound in Malakal last month

9 March 2016

  • Evacuation helicopter vietnam

    How to ensure NGO staff feel safe during an evacuation

    By applying a few basic low-cost recommendations every NGO can improve their duty of care towards their staff working in dangerous locations

26 February 2016

  • A health worker in Rio de Janeiro uses guppy fish to try to control the breeding of the mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus.

    Tackling Zika in Brazil: 'There is fear among the people I meet'

    Red Cross nurse Rozana Ribeiro believes the problem is far worse than the impression being given by media reports

27 January 2016

  • Refugees playing handball at sunset.

    Thousands have been abused by Isis and their mental health is shattered

    With so many sources of trauma, complex post traumatic stress disorder is on the rise among those living in the refugee camps of northern Iraq

20 November 2015

  • Woman in Susiya village

    Development in Palestine: Destined to fail before it has even started?

    The village of Susiya could be rubble next week. Or not. But ActionAid’s four year investment in the community wasn’t a waste, says Noor Jaber

12 October 2015

  • NGO offices after looting

    'The toughest part of an evacuation for an aid worker: the ones you leave behind'

    Having just arrived in the Central African Republic, an NGO worker describes their ordeal as violence erupted throughout the capital

1 October 2015

  • Wangu Kanja

    Sexual violence in Kenya: 'To the police, rape wasn’t a crime'

    Wangu Kanja was a victim of sexual violence and is now using her experience to help others

27 August 2015

  • Medical staff put on protective suits before collecting the corpse of a victim of Ebola, in Monrovia.

    Conflict abroad or virus outbreak at home? A Liberian aid worker’s dilemma

    Aid worker Alfred Davies speaks of the agonising decision of going home to fight Ebola or continuing his work abroad
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