![Preparations and launch of MY Bourbon Argos MSF Search and Rescue Boat Wiet Vandormael, cordinator project assistant working aboard of the MSF ship for the S&R operation in Augusta port.](https://media.msf.org/AssetLink/5rhe76h03y428crd18p0oj0f7b6k4581.jpg)
![Dawn Of Recovery Wa’el
During the 2011 revolution against former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, Wa’el attended a protest in the main square of the city of Taiz. “Thousands of us were crying for freedom and dignity, but the police responded with brutality, shooting and setting fire to the crowd,” he said. Wa’el was left with third-degree burns to his face, head, back, legs and arms.
“After the attack, I used to stay in my room all the time because of how I looked,” says Wa’el. “But thanks to the many rounds of surgery, and thanks to the people here, I have become more comfortable in my skin and have made a lot of friends.”
Wa’el is a passionate football fan, and keeps his collection of football shirts in his room at MSF’s hospital in Amman. “In Yemen, I used to work in my father’s workshop and then go to the sports club to play football,” he says. Now 28 years old, Wa’el has had 28 rounds of surgery, including 15 skin grafts and 13 tissue-expander insertions, which allow him to move his face and use his hands again.](https://media.msf.org/AssetLink/100ux6v36j2346g1o8r3t2b063carx5a.jpg)
![Mental Heath Commemoration Day in prison MSF and Ministry of Health and Child Care staff dance with patients at Mental Heath Commemoration Day ceremony in prison. As part of the celebrations, mental health patients from Chikurubi Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, performed testimonies with spoken word poetry, dancing and theatre performances.](https://media.msf.org/AssetLink/s8od1lr15jv62ebp15r52661x35q4f77.jpg)
![GUERRERO: LIVE IN THE MOBILE CLINIC Violence also affects education as many schools are left empty because the teachers cannot reach the towns.](https://media.msf.org/AssetLink/1ki1ble68o247nt0ujugs20ie6bcotb5.jpg)
![Rutshuru, North Kivu, DRC. September 2, 2009.
A mother holds her young daughter being treated for malnutrition at a MSF hospital in Rutshuru.
According to the UN, more than 800,000 people have been displaced in North and South Kivu provinces as a result of military operations against the Rwandan rebel group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and local militia allies since January 2009. A split within the National Congress for the PeopleÕs Defense (CNDP) rebel group, formerly led by Laurent Nkunda, and a joint Rwandan-Congolese military offensive against the FDLR have further blurred the lines between the warring parties in Eastern DRC.](https://media.msf.org/AssetLink/5w1soh1ty70j0i283v5c2cb412u44pn1.jpg)
![Ocean Viking: Transfer Rescued People for Disembarkation in Malta A message of love from a rescued person on board the Ocean Viking as they prepare to be transferred to the Armed Forces of Malta for disembarkation in Malta.](https://media.msf.org/AssetLink/q3n3rbbx54bnfxk12om05iowgbut38nm.jpg)
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