Why I do What I do
In mid-April, I set out with three colleagues on one of our regular training missions, this time heading to Miandrivazo, in southwestern Madagascar. I didn’t expect this trip to leave such a lasting mark on me — but by
When The Unexpected Becomes an Opportunity
A discouraging start As part of the FAWAY project (First Aid for Women and Youth), carried out in partnership with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, our team continued its activities this year in southwestern Madagascar along the National
When Creativity Can Save Lives
In Madagascar, emergency medical help is not just a phone call away. In most situations of an accident, there isn’t a doctor, nurse or trained emergency rescuer present. Instead you usually find ordinary citizen, surprised by the situation, unsure
When unity lives, hope is reborn:
A vision that awakens
At the beginning of this year, our AiNA soa team in Madagascar got visited from our founder Nicole, who traveled from Switzerland. For me this was a very meaningful encounter. Nicole reminded us, the team, of AiNA soa’s core
Perseverance: that one extra step that changes everything
At the beginning of this new year, one quality keeps coming back to me insistently: perseverance. Not the kind that looks good in speeches, but the kind that is lived in real life, when everything seems to say that