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Doctors Without Borders

By pbingham

  Voices from the field:  a surgical nurse setting up a trauma center in Haiti;  an American doctor fighting to save severely malnourished children in Niger;  a nurse from Colorado providing support to survivors of sexual violence in Liberia;  a Somali pharmacist reflecting on the changes war has brought to daily life in Mogadishu;  an Australian midwife teaching HIV/AIDS prevention in Uganda;  a trauma surgeon from New York describing the horror of Congolese children with machete and gunshot wounds.

These are the voices of volunteers with "Doctors Without Borders," a non-governmental, non-sectarian humanitarian organization that provides emergency aid to people affected by war, epidemics, and natural or man-made disasters.  Workers from around the world run hospitals, vaccination clinics, and feeding centers.  Click www.doctorswithoutborders.org to read their stories, and find out how you can use your voice to help suffering people.

                                                                            Posted by Patricia Bingham-Harper

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on November 02, 2005 (boomark / email).