Meet Our Team
Maeve Murphy
"I work as a Community Services Officer, visiting camps and villages to find out about the problems people face, working with partner agencies to improve basic facilities and making sure our programmes are targeting those most in need."
Emile Belem
"Providing shelter is one of the biggest priorities. When the refugees are crossing into the country, one of the first things they value is their security. It is very important to them that they have a place where they can feel secure..."
Dina Sinigallia
"Late one afternoon, a rumour started when a young girl saw a hunter while fetching water. She mistook him for an LRA soldier and started running. As she ran, she passed a market and alerted everyone..."
Geoff Wordley
"I am working at a reception centre in a little town called Liboi about 17 km from the Somali border. UNHCR is wholly responsible for running this reception centre. There are other organisations operating in the Dadaab camps but UNHCR does everything here..."
Hélène Caux
Sometimes Hélène Caux dreams that she goes back in time and urges colleague Aleksandar Vorkapic to join her and others for dinner at the UNHCR guesthouse in Peshawar, Pakistan rather than return for dinner at his own nearby hotel.
Juliet Mwebesa
Juliet Mwebesa is a Water and Sanitation Specialist with UNHCR. Since early 2008, she has been overseeing a major water infrastructure project in the sprawling Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda.
Dr Koffi Tsogbe
Malaria is the first cause of morbidity in the camps in Chad, mostly in children under five and pregnant women. In the children, it is also the first cause of mortality...
Nadine Cornier
Nadine Cornier is UNHCR's Reproductive Health Officer. Based in Geneva, she oversees the implementation of UNHCR’s Safe Mother and Baby Programs in refugee camps throughout the world.
