Listening & Speaking

Listening & Speaking

Organizations for some extent Private Non-profit-distributing Self-governing Voluntary Listening & Speaking

Armed Conflict Ex: Haiti, Iraq, Iran and Jordan. Epidemics Ex: Cholera in Haiti. Malnutrition Ex: Niger Natural Disasters Ex: Earthquake in Haiti, Flooding in Mexico Exclusion From Health Ex: Street Children, Refugee Listening & Speaking 5

Magnitude 7.0 earthquake, 10th Jan ,000 people died 1.5 million people homeless Jail broken Unstable politics Listening & Speaking

 Malnutrition › 20 million children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition (UNICEF) › Provide READY-TO-USE food  6,300 children were treated in Niger Listening & Speaking 5  Armed Conflict › Care people injured by gunshot, knife, or machete wounds, bombings, or sexual violence.

 Expertise › Special medical equipment › Correct information, analysis, and publish Listening & Speaking 5  Exclusion from Health Care › Neglected social group  Such as street children, migrants, minorities, displaced people, refugees, prisoners, the unemployed, people with HIV/AIDS or tuberculosis, drug users, sex workers.

 Epidemics › Responding to epidemic that spread rapidly and can be fatal if not treated Listening & Speaking 5  Natural Disasters › Responding to the disasters quickly and closely by the mobile clinics.

 No set description for MSF volunteers (no limit for sexes, ages, countries)  Two kinds of volunteers › Medical volunteers › Non-medical volunteers (All potential field volunteers must be interviewed by a human resource officer.) Listening & Speaking 4

 Experience › Two year professional experience in their specific area. Have some experience of living or working in different countries  Language › French and/or English (Chinese, Spanish, Russian)  Course › A candidate is invited to take the introductory course then goes on stand by Listening & Speaking 4

 MSF is an indepandent organization, it does not depend on any goverment  90% of the donation comes from the public  When a disaster happen, MSF can make decision to help people at once Listening & Speaking 4

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Overview of MSF Activities  Provide surgical care  Provide comprehensive physical rehabilitation treated gunshot-wounded

 Collected $138 million  Treated more than 358,000 people  Performed more than 16,500 surgeries  Delivered more than 15,000 babies  More than 5,700 major operations were carried out over the first three months alone Listening & Speaking 4

 Treated more than 91,000 cholera patients (JAN, 2011)  MSF’s operational budget projections for Haiti are $60.7 million (2011)  Constructed hospital for Haiti

 Access to Essential Medicines  A big international group without borders  Respect human rights Listening & Speaking 5

 Provide vaccines to Africa with affordable price  Give malnourished children help Listening & Speaking 5

 2.4 million of donors and thousands of volunteers  From different countries, different religions Listening & Speaking 5

 Humanitarian aid  No compensation  Equal to everyone Listening & Speaking 5

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