"Caught In The Crossfire"
COLOMBIA | BURUNDI | SIERRA LEONE

Colombia:

In the Aguablanca neighborhood of Cali, Colombia, street violence takes a particularly abhorrent form – rival gangs and jealous lovers alike tend to shoot for the lower spine in order to paralyze their targets but not kill them. MSF operates a physical rehabilitation project in Aguablanca for victims of such attacks, along with a psychological counseling program and activities geared towards preventing gang-related and domestic violence. Roger Micolta, a Colombian Physical Therapist working at Aguablanca, has a special relationship with one of the people he treats – a hard-working optimist named Pablo whose positive outlook inspires the other patients. When Pablo falls into a depression and stops coming to therapy sessions, Roger does everything he can to get him back on track.
To read more about MSF in Colombia, click here -
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/ar/
i2002/colombia.shtml

Burundi:

In the Kamenge district of Bujumbura, Burundi’s capital, an ongoing peace process has brought precious little safety for people caught in the crossfire of a ten-year civil conflict. MSF’s project in Kamenge offers a combination of medical care and psychological counseling for war-wounded civilians. After five months of virtually non-stop work caring for Kamenge’s perpetual stream of injured patients, Dr. Heidi D’Hert’s nerves are wearing thin. Meanwhile, Psychologist An Michels treats the mental effects of constant violence on Kamenge’s residents.
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http://doctorswithoutborders.org/ng/ep9/ep9_
region.html

Sierra Leone :

Donna Smith, a midwife from Australia, oversees rural clinics and consults with local staff in a country with one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world. Traveling deep into the bush, Donna visits clinics far off the beaten path, where mothers have virtually no access to the equipment and staff that make childbirth relatively safe in developed nations.
To read more about MSF in Sierra Leone click here -
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/
sierraleone.shtml