1. Doctors Without Borders Medecins Sans Frontieres Sarah Hoehn

2. MSF is an international medical humanitarian organization www.cafebabel.co.uk

3. What do they Believe? All people have the right to medical care regardless of race, religion, creed, or political affiliation www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mé decins_Sans_Frontières

4. What do they Believe? The needs of people outweigh the respect for national borders www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mé decins_Sans_Frontières

5. MSF’s goal is to bring quality medical care to all people caught in the midst of a crisis http://web.mit.edu/msfweek

6. MSF provides aid in over 70 countries www.globalpatriot.com www.cache.boston.com

7. MSF employs 27,000 people from all different nationalities. www.ippnw-students.org money.howstuffworks.com

8. Countries Involved: www.doctorswithoutborders.org

9. Countries Involved: Six Main Sections around the World: www.doctorswithoutborders.org Holland France Belgium Switzerland Spain Luxembourg

10.  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 www.upload.wikimedia.org www.msf.or g http://tamilnational.com

11. 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

12. The Rwandan Genocide Rwandan Hutu refugees with as many possessions as they can carry trudge along a highway near Benaco Junction in Tanzania. http://michjournal.wordpress.com/

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

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

15. How we can Help?