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How Aid Works
Ever wanted an intimate chat with people who treat the wounded in wartime, fight epidemics and respond to disasters? Season three of our How Aid Works podcast continues to reveals secrets fr...
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Listen to How Aid Works, a Government & Organizations podcast by Adam Corcoran. Stream 38 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Poo is not taboo
No matter whether you're on a remote Pacific Island or in Syria's largest city, toilets are critical to any humanitarian operation. Sanitati...
What does a tap mean?
Just once, try this: Walk a kilometre downhill, fill three buckets with water and carry them back home. Then you'll have the faintest sense...
Piles of cash and the balance of life
To run an Ebola treatment you need big piles of cash. In this age of plastic cards and electronic transfers, providing aid costs money. And...
Switching realities
One minute you're in the Himalayas of northern Pakistan helping communities recover from devastating floods. The next minute you're in an ou...
World's most dangerous animal
Every day, silent plagues of mosquito-borne diseases are killing thousands around the globe and Kym Blechynden is leading the charge to beat...
Passing the baton
What's it like having an aid worker for a father? How does that change the way you see the world? In this special discussion, veteran aid wo...
Fighting 18th century diseases in 2017
Why the hell does cholera still exist? Libby Bowell, who's been tackling preventable and horrifying diseases for several years, explains the...
More intelligent aid
Is it time for more intelligent aid? Red Cross International Director, Peter Walton, reflects on his days in the field and how we can turn a...
Navigating a cultural minefield
Imagine facing thousands of people needing shelter after an earthquake. Then imaging trying to coordinate shelter arrangements in three lang...
Modern day Florence Nightingales (part two)
Modern day Florence Nightingales explore the big questions in emergency health: how do you provide medical care with minimal equipment? How...
Modern day Florence Nightingales (part one)
Three Florence Nightingale Medal recipients reveal what it means to follow in the footsteps of the woman who inspired the international Red...
Congratulations! You're forever a misfit
The mission's over. Time to catch up with your mates and a season's worth of Game of Thrones. Except that people treat you differently after...
Advice to my younger self
Learn to manage risk, because someone will shoot at you. Stop being so damn idealistic. Sit back and listen. There are no heroes, least of a...
Equifinality
What could possibly go wrong on a relief mission? Well… border disputes, power outages, strikes, random epidemics, natural disasters, insurg...
Love in the hot zone
Listen up, Humanitarians of Tinder! It can be hard to maintain relationships with family, let alone find love, when you're going from missio...
A water stop in an apocalypse
How do you feel watching families flee in an apocalyptic sea of people? How do you cope with an Ebola nightmare sweeping before your eyes? A...
The coffin on the bus and other tales of horror
Sometimes you're faced with a carful of corpses. Sometimes you have to drive the body of a bomb victim home to her parents. Sometimes you ha...
4 minutes to save the world
Every minute is a matter of life or death when a disaster strikes or a conflict breaks out. Aid workers are in a race against time: whether...
A week of terror and inadequacy
This week we look at your very first mission as an aid worker: whether it's Pakistan after an earthquake, a refugee camp in South Sudan or a...
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