Colum Wilson
Humanitarian Adviser
I’m currently based in the Africa Conflict and Humanitarian Unit (ACHU), regularly making visits to our programmes in west and central Africa. I have also worked for our global emergency response team and managed DFID's response to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
The humanity of humanitarian work
Posted 18 August 2010
What’s this then? A whole day dedicated to humanitarian workers? Don’t they get enough air time as the face of disasters, recounting tales of untold suffering on our TVs? Well, no, actually. The sad fact is that regardless of how globalised and technologically advanced we become, disasters still happen; in fact, as a result of [...]
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