Colum Wilson
Humanitarian Adviser
I’m currently based in Jerusalem helping to meet the humanitarian needs of those in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I have also worked for our global emergency response team and managed DFID's response to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
Healing the mental scars in Haiti
Posted 25 January 2010
The statistics coming from Haiti now are like telephone numbers, numbing our sense of scale.
Two million people needing food; up to 800,000 people living in transitional shelter; up to 4000 temporary classrooms needed; some 240,000 pregnant and lactating women requiring nutritional support. This is the measurement of human misery. Yet, underneath this horror, we know [...]
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