After a recent typhoon caused severe, and in some cases fatal, flooding on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team began providing emergency medical assistance to people whose houses were destroyed and who are now living in evacuation centers.

Photo: Philippines 2011 © Pauline Busson/MSF

Pakistan: Providing Care for Flood-Displaced Families in Sindh

Severe flooding in Pakistan has affected millions of people, hitting Sindh Province, in the southern part of the country, particularly hard. After weeks of torrential monsoon rains, canals burst their banks, flooding villages and leaving tens of thousands of families homeless for the past two months. Read more

Photo: Pakistan 2011 © P.K. Lee/MSF