In 2022, MSF groups around the world continued to respond to crises, old and new. While COVID-19 was not the emergency of recent years, new demanding situations emerged. The war in Ukraine escalated in February; the political, humanitarian and economic crises in Haiti have seriously deteriorated; Cholera has made an impression on an exceptional scale in several countries.
This collection of 63 images, from December 2021 to November 2022, covers 12 months of some of the paintings made by our teams, highlights the other people we serve, or illustrates the contexts in which we paint.
A child plays with a ball as part of an intellectual fitness activity in Al-Sweida camp for internally displaced people. Marib, Yemen, December 2021. © Hesham Al Hilali
Patients and their families are transported to Bunia hospital by UN helicopter. After the attacks in Drodo, which forced people to leave the hospital, the helicopter is the only way to direct others from the MSF-run gym in the vicinity of Rho’s displacement. Camp to hospitals that provide more complex care. Democratic Republic of Congo, December 2021. © Alexis Huguet
MSF groups are testing a water pump as part of a bid to provide clean water and latrines to other displaced people in Rho camp. Democratic Republic of Congo, December 2021. © Alexis Huguet
Lithuanian emergency personnel are preparing to take a man, who had crossed the border from Belarus and can no longer walk, to hospital. Kabeliai, Varėna District, Lithuania, December 2021. © Balkuna Vidmantas/SNB
An MSF staff member inspects the wreckage of the Barangay gymnasium, which broke badly through Typhoon Rai (known locally as Typhoon Odette). Surigao City, Philippines, January 2022. © Regina Layug Rosero/MSF
Gul washes her hands with her son’s hands at MSF-supported Boost hospital in Lashkar Gah. Helmand Province, Afghanistan, January 2022. © Oriane Zerah
Nimo Abdi* lies in his bed in MSF’s drug-resistant TB ward in Hargeisa. Somaliland, Somalia, February 2022. *Name replaced by identity. © Sean Sutton
Vaishnavi, a seven-year-old patient with drug-resistant TB, talks to MSF nurse Prachi during a home visit, while Vaishnavi’s mother, Vishaka, looks on. Mumbai, India, February 2022. © Prem Hessenkamp
MSF is heading to Paukaw municipality to set up a clinic where it will provide medical and fitness care to other displaced people in Ah Nau Ywe camp. Burma, March 2022. © Ben Small/MSF
Mosquito larvae thrive in water in Ramba State, Kalehe territory, where MSF has distributed insecticide-treated mosquitoes to families to save them from malaria. South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, February 2022. © Norah Mbadu/MSF
Sera James, a resident of Akello village, laughs with friends as she draws water from a pump that MSF groups have just installed to improve the community’s access to clean water during the dry season. Country of Pibor, South Sudan, March 2022. © Njiiri Karago/MSF
Prototypes of prosthetic hands and arms, made from MSF’s three-dimensional prosthetic prosthetic prosthesis programme for amputees, are placed on a shelf. Amman, Jordan, February 2022. © MSF/Soriya
Portrait of M. , originally from Guinea, who dealt through MSF groups in Agadez, Niger, after fleeing Lithrougha, where he was burned, beaten and imprisoned. Agadez, Niger, March 2022. © Yarin Trotta del Vecchio
Children observe a women’s domain on board MSF’s search and rescue ship, the Geo Barents, after their previous rescue. Central Mediterranean Sea, March 2022. © Kenny Karpov
Refugees who have escaped Ukraine go out to warm up at a makeshift humanitarian point at the Hrebenne border crossing. Poland, March 2022. © Maciej Moskwa
A mother comforts her daughter as she waits to board a bus at a departure point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing war. Palanca, Moldova, March 2022. © Maxime Fossat
An MSF member wears a chest prosthesis so that she and the fitness promotion team can demonstrate breast self-examination, a strategy women can use to stumble upon lumps that can cause breast cancer. Bamako, Mali, March 2022. © Maxime Fossat
MSF groups are cleaning and rehabilitating a hospital partially destroyed by two cyclones that hit the region in February. Nosy Varika, Madagascar, March 2022. iAko M. Randrianarivelo © /Mira Photo
A fisherman keeps his canoe when he can’t fish; there have been no fish since Cyclone Batsirai hit the domain in early February, devastating livelihoods. Nosy Varika, Madagascar, March 2022. iAko M. Randrianarivelo © /Mira Photo
Aminata looks at her newborn baby, whom she gave birth to at the MSF-supported gym in Mile 91, Tonkolili. Tonkolili, Sierra Leone, March 2022. © Oliver Barth/MSF
A boy from Venezuela holds his daughter and looks out from the dock along the Tumbes River. The pier, 23 kilometers from the border between Peru and Ecuador, is where other people rest and take refuge before continuing their adventure towards the border. Downtown Tumbes, Peru, March 2023. © Max Cabello Orcasitas
A man hangs clothes in Mexico City’s comprehensive care centre, where an MSF team provides medical and fitness care to survivors of excessive violence, torture or inhuguye treatment. Mexico City, Mexico, March 2022. © Jordi Ruiz Cirera
Muawiyah Al-Wahidi, who had his right leg amputated after being wounded in an airstrike in Gaza City in 2021, can continue to paint as a hairdresser with his wife, netpaintings and an MSF psychologist. Gaza City, Palestine, April 2022 © Giles Duley
Amro Ayman Alhadad has spent his time drawing and worrying about his puppy since his leg was amputated after a gunshot wound in the Great March of Return protest movement in 2018. Gaza City, Palestine, April 2022. © Giles Duley
An aerial view of the Bentiu IDP camp, home to some 120,000 more people, and the surrounding flooding. The levees around the camp are the only thing protecting other people from flooding. Bentiu, Unity State, South Sudan, April 2022. © Peter Cato
People walk along the road between the flooded surroundings of Bentiu IDP camp. Bentiu, Unity State, South Sudan, April 2022. © Peter Caton
Members of MSF’s logistics team distribute blankets and jerry cans to others who fled violence in Agok and are recently in the Nyin Deng Ayuel displacement camp. Twic County, South Sudan, April 2022. © Scott Hamilton/MSF
Women draw water from a shallow well along a dry river in Illeret. The drought in the region is forcing other people to seek selected water sources, which are not worthy for human consumption. Illeret District, Kenya, April 2022. © MSF/Lucy Makori
Akademika Barabashova, a metro station in Kharkiv, is home to other people who have fled the war. Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, April 2022. © Mohammad Ghannam/MSF
Xiomara Villoria, a bioanalyst, maintains a COVID-19 control to be treated at the Public Health Molecular Biology Laboratory in San Cristóbal. The laboratory has been renovated through MSF to have a specialized device capable of analyzing molecular controls. Táchira State, Venezuela, April 2022 © Matías Delacroix
A lies deserted and submerged in the floods that have devastated Rubkona. Unity State, South Sudan, May 2022. © Peter Caton
On the night of 11 May, MSF’s search and rescue team carried out two rescues, rescuing a total of 96 other people from squalid boats in Malta’s search and rescue zone. Mediterranean Sea, May 2022. © Anna Pantelia/MSF
Atija, a classical midwife, passes through Eduardo Mondlane’s IDP camp. She works to suggest in the field those who, like her, have been displaced by violence. Mozambique, May 2022. © Mariana Abdalla/MSF
A woman from Haiti collects water from an old transport trailer that is now used as a water tank in the structure of what will be the “Senda de Vida II” migrant shelter. Reynosa, Mexico, May 2022. © Yael Martinez/Magnum
The medical team on board MSF’s medical practice analyses the condition of a war-wounded patient on the adventure from Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine to Lviv in the west of the country. The adventure lasts about 20 hours. Ukraine, May 2022. © Andrii Ovod
Gabriel Kalany, a nursing student at MSF’s Academy in Old Fangak, is preparing for a consultation at the Skills Lab, where he will place a urinary catheter on a mannequin. Gabriel has since graduated and completed his 18 months at Array Old Fangak, South Sudan, June 2022. © Florence Miettaux
A batch of bullets that MSF doctors pulled from patients’ wounds at the Turgeau emergency centre. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 2022. © Johnson Sabin
Halima Hamadou receives comfort from her mother, Zeinaolou Hamadou, while a doctor treats her head wound. Diffa, Niger, June 2022. © Oliver Barth/MSF
Hussein was born a few hours ago, by caesarean section, in the hospital of Nablus. Her mother, who is still resting, traveled 77 kilometers to give birth. Mosul, Iraq, June 2022. © MSF/Florence Dozol
Gulnaz plays with his daughter at her brother’s house. He went to his relatives’ house in Peshawar in search of a remedy for cutaneous leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease, as it is not very common in the country. Peshawar, Pakistan, May 2022. © Saiyna Bashir
MSF promoter Arina Ilchenko sits with nine-year-old Karina in a shelter for displaced people. Dnipro, Ukraine, June 2022. © Alexander Glyadyelov
Amaka Joseph, 35, cares for her recovering son at an inpatient feeding centre at Sokoto Specialist Hospital. “When we do the treatment, I see improvements. Now they can eat and play well, and that makes me happy,” he says. Nigeria, July 2022. © KC NWAKALOR
Children gather outdoors at a school in Liberia. Other young people with epilepsy in Liberia would find it difficult to stay in school because of their seizures and the stigma attached to them. Our groups are schools of students living with epilepsy. Liberia, June 2022 © Carielle Doe
Crews on board the search and rescue vessel Geo Barents evacuate a user in critical condition to Malta. On the afternoon of 27 June, MSF groups rescued another 71 people from a rubber dinghy in distress. Central Mediterranean, June 2022. © Anna Pantelia/MSF
An MSF nurse ties a patient’s ankle in a doctor’s clinic at MSF’s cellular clinic in Horgos 2, a border domain in Serbia. Serbia, July 2022. © SPS
View of a washing basin in a casual shop for stranded asylum seekers in the Netherlands. Ter Apel, The Netherlands, August 2022. © Olga Victorie
People who have just arrived on Samos walk along a rocky path on the island after arriving by boat across the Aegean Sea. MSF emergency groups reported significant medical and humanitarian wishes among the new arrivals. Samos, Greece, July 2022. © MSF/Alice Gotheron
An aerial view of a road and structure across the UN in Bentiu. The dikes have a height of up to 2. 5 meters and five meters wide. Floods around Bentiu extend over 80 kilometers. Bentiu, South Sudan, August 2022. © Christina Simons
A man sits in a phone charging tent in a refugee camp for others fleeing war in Sudan’s western Darfur province. Guéréda District, Chad, August 2022. © Mohammad Ghannam/MSF
Mohamed Hussein, who fled Myanmar because of his Rohingya ethnicity, sits with young Rohingya in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. Bangladesh, June 2022. © Saikat Mojumder/MSF
A member of MSF’s intellectual fitness team comforts Sana’a*, a patient from the town of Hajjah. “I felt empty, like I was missing something, and I didn’t know where my son was. . . sure. Then I found out about MSF in Hajjah. I came here and they gave me intellectual care,” says Sana’a. Yemen, September 2022. * Name replaced to protect identity. © Jinane Saad/MSF
A boy walks down a flooded street in the Eternal City community of Port-au-Prince. Flooding occurs through clogged channels due to poor waste management. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 2022. © MSF/Alexandre Marcou
MSF consults a patient at the cellular clinic in Sara Sang village, Charsadda district. Khyber Pakhtuhkwa Province, Pakistan, September 2022. © Zahra Shoukat/MSF
A boy reads excerpts from his textbook at the shelter of a circle of relatives in Nangar Daro village, after his space collapsed from heavy rains and flooding in Dadu district. Sindh Province, Pakistan, October 2022. © Asim Hafeez
A young patient in consultation with an MSF psychologist at a site for other displaced people in Kwamouth. In addition to treating the wounded and sick, our groups provide brainwashing sessions to others traumatized by the violence they witness. Democratic Republic of Congo, September 2022. © Johnny Vianney Bissakonou/MSF
People displaced by intermittent clashes between the M23 organization and the Congolese army have set up basic shelters in an informal camp on the outskirts of Goma. and latrines. Democratic Republic of Congo, November 2022. © Moses Sawasawa
In Salamabila, the network’s fitness staff organizes awareness sessions with the network to address preventable fitness issues, as well as to listen, answer questions and the importance of a decentralized technique for fitness care. Maniema Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, September 2022. © Michel Lunanga/ MSF
MSF physiotherapist Ahmad Alrosan performs muscle stretching training on a patient with a damaged wrist and an amputated finger. Kiev, Ukraine, September 2022. © Hussein Amri/MSF
Aboard the Geo Barents, one survivor cuts another’s hair. The 293 survivors – totalling 146 children – are waiting for a landing post after being rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. Central Mediterranean, October 2022. © MSF/Candida Lobes
The sun sets on the horizon as survivors rescued at sea wait for a position to disembark. Central Mediterranean, October 2022. © MSF/Candida Lobes
Zainab, from Lebanon, reviews the demanding situations she faces to obtain clean water in the face of a cholera outbreak in the country. “Here we don’t have a water formula that works. she says. Arsal, Lebanon, November 2022. © Carmen Yahchouchi/MSF
MSF crosses the Baudó River, in the direction of treating local communities against dehydration, diarrhoea, malaria and malnutrition. Here, communities face food and supply difficulties, as well as intellectual fitness problems, due to clashes and lockdowns. Alto Baudó, Colombia, November 2022. © MSF/Santiago Valenzuela