‘A glimpse of hope’: how Observer readers are helping mend broken lives in war-torn lands

Clockwise from top: Dr Fatima Mohamed Alfatih, medical activity manager, Sudan; Noura Arafat, an MSF intercultural mediator, Nablus in the occupied West Bank; Anthony Caswell Pérez, MSF deputy country representative, Bangladesh; Thok Johnson Gony, medical coordinator, Yemen. Composite: MSF

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the Guardian and Observer’s three 2024 charity appeal partners (along with War Child and Parallel Histories). It employs thousands of medical workers in conflict zones in 70 countries. Here, three MSF staff talk about the risks and challenges of their frontline work and what motivates them.

Noura Arafat, intercultural mediator, West Bank