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Doctors Without Borders Medecins Sans Frontieres Sarah Hoehn

MSF is an international medical humanitarian organization

What do they Believe? All people have the right to medical care regardless of race, religion, creed, or political affiliation decins_Sans_Frontières

What do they Believe? The needs of people outweigh the respect for national borders decins_Sans_Frontières

MSF’s goal is to bring quality medical care to all people caught in the midst of a crisis

MSF provides aid in over 70 countries

MSF employs 27,000 people from all different nationalities. money.howstuffworks.com

Countries Involved:

Countries Involved: Six Main Sections around the World: Holland France Belgium Switzerland Spain Luxembourg

 1971 – MSF is founded in France  1984 – MSF aids victims of the Famine in Ethiopia  1993 – MSF helps refugees of the Civil war in Burundi  1994 – Genocide in Rwanda, Crisis in Zaire, MSF is there!  1999 – Access to essential medicines, MSF gets Nobel peace price g

Just like every other organization, MSF has it’s critics… “The world is getting bloodier even as the values get better, and that humanitarian action amounts to little more than putting Band- Aids on a malignant tumor…” - David Rieff A Bed for the Night

The Rwandan Genocide Rwandan Hutu refugees with as many possessions as they can carry trudge along a highway near Benaco Junction in Tanzania.

Rwandan Refugees Return Home MSF was there to assist the refugees on their return journey to their homeland. g

Where are they Now? Global campaign launched in October; attempting to stop Europe’s control of medicine needed by patients in developing countries

How we can Help?