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supports Médecins Sans Frontières
If you know little or nothing about MSF, please take a moment
to visit their website: http://www.msf.org.au
My introduction to Médecins Sans Frontières was several years
ago, when I saw a documentary about the work of Rotary and MSF. I watched
in awe as the cameras followed surgeons to third world countries,
to save and help rebuild the lives of people who have been almost destroyed
by wars, epidemics and disasters – both natural and man-made.
The impression has never left me.
The MSF website posts graphic correspondence from their volunteers out in
the field. Their observations are immediate and compelling. The courage
and altruism of those who work through MSF is humbling. Their achievements,
often at no small risk to themselves, inspirational.
We are privileged to affirm our support for Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF). I hope you will be as inspired as I was.
What is Médecins Sans Frontières?
(Adapted from the MSF website)
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a private, international,
not-for-profit, humanitarian organisation whose objective is to provide
assistance to populations in distress. That, at least, is the simple overview
– but it barely scratches the surface of what these remarkable people
do.
Working in some 70 countries, MSF delivers emergency aid to the victims
of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to
others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation.
Médecins Sans Frontières provides primary health care, performs
surgery, rehabilitates hospitals and clinics, runs nutrition and sanitation
programmes, trains local medical personnel, and provides mental health care.
Through longer-term programs its teams treat diseases such as tuberculosis,
malaria, sleeping sickness and HIV/AIDS.
Every year some 3,000 volunteer expatriate doctors, nurses and support staff,
from 45 different nations, go to the field where they work alongside 15,000
locally recruited staff. Those expat recruits include GPs, emergency physicians,
public health physicians, surgeons, paediatricians, anaesthetists, nurses,
midwives, psychologists, medical scientists, logisticians, and admin/finance
professionals.
Médecins Sans Frontières Australia is located in Sydney, and
can be contacted via email: office@sydney.msf.org
esther@malka.com.au