humanitarian aid – DFID bloggers

Woman + disability = double discrimination

Baroness Lindsay Northover, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development, 13 March 2015 - Disability, Girls & Women

Women with disabilities often face double discrimination – because they are female, and because they have disabilities. If they are from a minority group, elderly, or are gay, they may face multiple discrimination. But this discrimination can become still worse …

World Humanitarian Day in South Sudan

Henry Donati, Programme Manager, Humanitarian Response Group, 19 August 2014 - Africa, Humanitarian

The helicopter banks down steeply to the left, and we’re approaching Akobo town; the miles of flat scrub land and acacia trees have given way to a scattering of huts and one-story, corrugated iron-roofed brick buildings. We hover over a …

Typhoon in Tacloban

Henry Donati, Programme Manager, Humanitarian Response Group, 29 November 2013 - Asia, Humanitarian

It was the images of utter devastation and destruction in Tacloban which put Typhoon Haiyan at the top of the news stories in the UK. A giant cargo ship hurled like a match box by the ferocious force of the …

Saving Syria's children

Saleyha Ahsan, Accident and Emergency Doctor, 6 November 2013 - Development Debates, Health, Humanitarian

I went to Syria in December 2012, invited by UK based NGO Hand in Hand for Syria. My first view of Atmeh refugee camp, close to the Turkish border, was of a vast sea of muddy white tents. Three days …

Blog DFID bloggers

Woman + disability = double discrimination

World Humanitarian Day in South Sudan

Typhoon in Tacloban

Saving Syria's children

Our Priorities

Categories

Archives

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Follow us on Social Media

Related content and links