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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...
Nuran Higgins knows how hard it can be to live from hand to mouth, not knowing where the next meal is coming from. Once homeless, she is now...
No matter whether you're on a remote Pacific Island or in Syria's largest city, toilets are critical to any humanitarian operation. Sanitati...
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...
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...
One minute you're in the Himalayas of northern Pakistan helping communities recover from devastating floods. The next minute you're in an ou...
Every day, silent plagues of mosquito-borne diseases are killing thousands around the globe and Kym Blechynden is leading the charge to beat...
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...
Why the hell does cholera still exist? Libby Bowell, who's been tackling preventable and horrifying diseases for several years, explains the...
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...
Imagine facing thousands of people needing shelter after an earthquake. Then imaging trying to coordinate shelter arrangements in three lang...
Modern day Florence Nightingales explore the big questions in emergency health: how do you provide medical care with minimal equipment? How...
Three Florence Nightingale Medal recipients reveal what it means to follow in the footsteps of the woman who inspired the international Red...
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...
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...
What could possibly go wrong on a relief mission? Well… border disputes, power outages, strikes, random epidemics, natural disasters, insurg...
Listen up, Humanitarians of Tinder! It can be hard to maintain relationships with family, let alone find love, when you're going from missio...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It's a job you can't wait to leave and can't wait to return to. We look at how to break into the field of humanitarian aid work, with an hon...
The Philippines has been battered by three super-typhoons in the last three years. It’s not surprising that they’ve become very good at deal...
How well did our humanitarians face the big disasters of last year – the disease outbreaks, the earthquakes, the conflicts that created a gl...
How do you solve a problem like 85,000 people and no toilets? We ask sanitation engineer James Godbee about solutions devised in the field,...
In the wake of a disaster, everything you’ve learned about child protection comes sharply into focus. In Nepal, Sally Chapman found destroye...
Your challenge: get safe drinking water to an island where a cyclone has destroyed all the water tanks and an active volcano is spewing ash...
What should you send a country that’s been hit by a disaster? Here’s a tip from Finau Limuloa: don’t send bras. In fact, don’t send anything...
It's not a great time to be a humanitarian. Around the world, they're being shot at, sent home or silenced. Vicki Mau and Christoph Hensch a...
How emotionally healthy are people who spend their working lives in disaster zones? And if that’s your career path, how do you manage your s...
In Sydney, a massive outbreak of armed violence forced millions of people – students, doctors, artists, shopkeepers – to flee for their live...
The Nepal earthquake changed families in profound ways. Most lost their homes. Some lost children or parents. Others reconnected with brothe...
Why are people still homeless three months after a massive relief effort in Vanuatu? We ask Tom Bamforth about who lost a house, who got a h...
You can access any prison, any detention centre, any gulag or PoW camp, anywhere in the world … but you can never tell anyone what you see t...
This is medicine stripped to the core: mending broken bodies by torchlight, in a tent in the heart of a swamp. Florence Nightingale Medal re...
A red cross or red crescent on a white background means ‘Don’t shoot!’ in every language. It’s meant to give aid workers access to the most...
Everyone wants to help when a major disaster hits: from relief agencies marking their turf to well-intentioned foreigners wanting to volunte...
Emergency shelter is a complex thing. How do you keep diseases from spreading? How do you protect women and children? Robbie Dodds reports f...
You don’t stop diseases like Ebola with doctors. You stop them with garbage collectors, plumbers and grave-diggers. Amanda McClelland, leade...