That 's why some French doctors and journalists created in 1971 an international medical humanitarian organization known as “Doctor without borders” in order to help people in every corner of the world and provide medical assistance to those in need regardless the race, religion or political ideology, in order to save lives and ease the suffering of people caught in crises, and restoring their ability to rebuild their lives and communities.
Doctor without borders is an international movement
made up of 19 organizations in countries such as: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Because of their success, this French organization opens an office in 1990 in New York City to raise funds, recruit field staff, and work with the United Nations and US government on humanitarian concerns, and in 1999 in recognition of its work Doctor Without Borders received the Nobel Peace Price.
Today, Doctors without borders provides assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. More than 27,000 people can be found providing assistance to people around the world, such as doctors, nurses, logistics experts, administrators, epidemiologists and others who work together and conduct evaluations on the ground to determine a population 's medical needs in order to open programs that cover those needs and reach communities that are not being assisted.
This organization keeps working and accomplishing its goals thanks to the donations they received from private, non-governmental sources, for example in 2009, Doctors without borders had 3.8 million individual donors and private funders worldwide.
People can join the cause and work together with Doctors without borders helping people around the world, and they not necessarily need to be doctors because this organization recruits medical and non-medical aid workers to provide assistance.
Since 1971, Doctors without borders has been working to improve the life of those in need, and will continue doing it for a long time.
References
"History & Principles." - Doctors Without Borders. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Jan. 2014. .