Alex is the pseudonym chosen by a British nurse who has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières since the late 1990s initially in overseas missions and lately at the MSF UK offices. Alex had a strong desire to undertake humanitarian work and planned her nursing training and early career experience around preparing for this opportunity. She completed a degree in nursing in the 1990s. She then took a number of opportunities to do small amounts of work abroad in Romania and Uganda, to gain experience of emergency nursing in A&E and to complete courses in teaching and in tropical medicine. She undertook two missions for MSF in Sierra Leone and Siri Lanka - both particularly dangerous combat settings. After these she decided that working for the MSF UK office would be a better way to support MSF work and has combined working for MSF UK with settling down to a family and children.
Interviewee: Alex
This material is held atHeritage Quay, University of Huddersfield
- Reference
- GB 1103 MSF/2
- Dates of Creation
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 18 audio files, 2 document filesDigital object
Scope and Content
Access Information
Original available for consultation by appointment
Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements
Digital formats, .mp3 and .doc