humanitarian assistance

Lieutenant Jamal Jenkins and his pararescue team are sent to the highlands of the Nile where a burst dam has caused massive flooding, and a humanitarian crisis; but contending local war lords make it difficult to get people the food and medicine they need--especially after one of the team's helicopters is shot down in the crocodile infested Nile River.

"An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial money-making schemes are failing as his family is falling apart. Momo sets out to search for his brother Ali, hoping his new Western acquaintances might be able to help find him. But as the truth of Ali's whereabouts begin to unfold, the effects of American 'aid' on this war-torn Muslim country are revealed to be increasingly pernicious"--OCLC.

A collection of true stories recounting the history, hopes, fears, and resilience of dozens of Darfurians who survived the violence of the 2003 rebellion against the Sudanese government.

Inspired by a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane, Parveen Shams travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to help with his charitable foundation. But when she sees that his book is littered with lies, Parveen must decide where her loyalties lie--with the soldiers or the villagers.

Eric Greitens shares his life journey from being an average kid to working to make a difference in the world's trouble spots and joining the Navy SEALS to protect the weak, and encourages readers to reflect on the power of choice and acts of courage.

A collection of photographs from International Committee of the Red Cross missions in conflict zones.

In 1965, drafted into the Army to serve in Vietnam, Lawrence Climo, a young physician just out of training, learned of a unique humanitarian mission with counter-insurgency objectives that was looking for doctors: Military Provincial Hospital Augmentation Program (MILPHAP). Because it seemed an honorable as well as a doable enterprise he volunteered and began keeping a journal. At the time he appreciated the varied interactions with people of different relitious, social, radical, and ethnic cultures. But then he encountered a culture shock that proved toxic and threatened to corrupt everything.

After watching a news bulletin about war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow and his brother agreed to take a week's hiatus from work to help. Neither expected it to be a life-changing experience but what began as a one-time road trip in a beaten up Land Rover grew to become Magnus' life's work. He left his job, sold his house, and directed all of his efforts to feeding thousands of the world's poorest children.

Bethany Haley Williams shares her story of healing and how she built Exile International, a non-profit foundation that nurtures child soldiers rescued from the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army). Once the children escape or are rescued, they have to find a way to live again. Exile International uses art and expression therapy to help with the healing process. Once these children learn to face their pasts, they are given hope for a future and a vision for making a difference in their country as peace-makers.

Jessica Alexander describes the realities of life as an aid worker as she manages a 24,000-person camp in Darfur.