1)The organisation.
MSF is an associative and international movement runed by an administration council.It has been created in 1971 ( war of Biafra and flods in Pakistan) by a group of French doctors.
Nowdays it became a private organisation of medical helps.MSF brings medical assistance to population in danger, in bad health, who is victim of violence,famines and diseases... These crisis need quick intervention to heal the wounded and resolve all actual problems in the country.MSF is also interested by the consequences of economical and social inequalities and helps creating other programs to acess to the struggle against contagious diseases and human rights.The organisation is working in more than 80 countriues in the world (Angola, Kpsovo, Cambodge, Guinea, Peru, Madagascar...)
2)History and actions
In 1971 medecins sans frontieres has been created.Then they recioeved the Nobel peace price thanks to their humanitarian actions all over the world: those information are the most inportant but they were severalm during their working years which are the following:
-1975:first war mission in Vietnam
-1980:creation of MSF in belgium
-1989:thanks to the fall of Berlin's wall, MSF can developp other programs in all western countries
-1991:civil war in Somalia: MSF's iintervention
-1997:MSF struggles to the acces to the refugees in Rwanda and in Congo
-1999:war in Kosovo
-2002:MSF brings medical helps to people victim of the eruption of the volcano in Goma(Congo).
For more than 30 years they have been provinding helps to people caught in many kinds of catastrophes: armed conflicts , natural disasters, diseases and famines.The actions they take com in multiple forms whiche are the following:
-emergency public health care,including medecine and surgery.
-Mass vaccination campaign.
-Waters and sanitation systems.
-Therapeutic and supplementary nutirtion.
-Distrubution of drugs and supplies.
-Training and health education.
-Organisation or rehabilitation of health structures.
More than 3200 volunteers work for MSF and receive the following benefits:
-a small monthly stipend.
-free transportation for their missions.
-room and insuances coverage in project country.
3)Financial sources
MSF 's sources are different: 89% are private, a part comles from donations, an other from their sales activities (medical products,satellites). An other part comes from the United Nations who finances them.