Merlin was founded in 1993 by Dr Christopher Besse , Nicholas Mellor and Mark Dalton to create a British charity to send medical teams into disaster zones and then to prevent disease and help develop local health services . Its first mission was to send a convoy to Bosnia carrying £ 1 million worth of essential food and medicines . Since then Merlin has grown into a specialist charity aimed at responding to natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies , then staying on to rebuild the capacity of local health services . To date , Merlin has worked in over 40 countries and responded to some of the most serious humanitarian emergencies of recent history . These include the Asian tsunami , Darfur and the cyclone in Burma . Merlin has also responded to the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the flooding in Pakistan
2010 Haiti earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
Medical Emergency Relief International