Sri Lanka, July 17 -- For Muhammad Hussain Mattee, a public health and community engagement expert at Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), serving humanity had never been an afterthought. Having begun his career as a translator at MSF, Hussain later pursued his dream career, leading several missions in conflict zones in different parts of the world. Since 2018, he had completed 11 international missions across Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

First impressions Hussain's initial exposure to international non-governmental organisations (iNGOs) was during a flood that occurred in Pakistan. "Around 2 million people were internally displaced and it was around this time ...