Nurse Ms Yiu Miu-fan, Esther started her first overseas relief work in Taiwan in 1999 when the devastating earthquake hit Taiwan. Since then, she devoted herself to overseas humanitarian missions. She had been to Kenya-Africa, the border of Southern Sudan, Central Indonesia, Pakistan and Haiti to provide voluntary medical services to the people affected by natural or manmade disasters. To allow herself more time to devote to humanitarian work, Ms Yiu left her job as a public hospital's nursing officer to involve in humanitarian work full-time in 2007.

Through her mission, Ms Yiu feels that helping others is helping ourselves. "As I help others, I learnt the deeper meaning of life," Ms Yiu said. Seeing extreme poverty, rich-poverty gap, severe illnesses or death first hand during the missions, she feels that people should appreciate what they have and not to take education and work chances for granted.

After a huge 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, Ms Yiu provided emergency medicial services in the disaster zone. She joined the mobile medical teams and basic health clinics in Haiti to provide medical care services to the quakeaffected people. She also joined forces with the World Health Organization and other national teams in training local volunteers to provide vaccination to 150,000 people within six
weeks.

Apart from participating in humanitarian relief missions of the Hong Kong Red Cross, Ms Yiu also gets involved with the Canadian Red Cross, Medecins Sans Frontieres, and Hong Kong's Government Flying Service and the Auxiliary Medical Services. Through participating in humanitarian missions of different organizations, she hopes to offer immediate help to the vulnerable when the need arises. Ms Yiu is currently Honorary Principal Nursing Officer and Clinical Tutor of CERTCUHK-Oxford University Centre for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response. In recent years, she is actively involved in disaster field studies and promotes awareness
of disaster preparedness in the community. These works, she hopes, will reduce human sufferings brought by future
disasters.

To motivate more people to participate in humanitarian work, Ms Yiu gives frequent speeches and seminars on her humanitarian work for schools, hospitals, the community groups and the media. Ms Yiu encourages young people to start humanitarian work to address global needs, and to contribute to the world harmony with their best efforts.