Hlas větru – Havlíček Stanislav (2021)

Pharmacist and participant in humanitarian missions of Doctors Without Borders, Stanislav Havlíček, led a pharmacy for a refugee camp in Bangladesh on his second mission, where the most persecuted minority in the world, the Rohingya, found refuge from violence. The book 'Voice of the Wind' is from there. Humanitarian aid in a crisis situation can prepare you for an epidemic, war conflict, earthquake, or a hundred-year flood. What is it like to live and help without electricity, water, or sewage in the largest refugee camp in the world? How does one work in an environment where, in addition to the omnipresent people, there is a complete lack of everything? A book about the course of a mission, in which a pharmacist should perhaps even know how to treat a mass grave. 'Few step out of the comfort zone of everyday worries and hobbies to experience something that shakes them and transforms them. Standa offers such an opportunity to the reader, as he undergoes his own transformation with each subsequent mission of Doctors Without Borders. Several months in the humiliating conditions of refugee camps in Bangladesh, where the loss of human dignity mixes with the suffering of tens of thousands of adults and children, will force you to think anew and differently. You may succumb to frustration from the loss of meaning and faith in human solidarity or transform into a stronger and...