Advocacy

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Advocacy

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) advocacy staff gather information to advocate for people in need.

Bearing witness to MSF operations, they draw up unbiased reports on a wide range of issues – leading to awareness-raising and strategy development.

Keen observers with an eye for detail, advocacy staff keep MSF focused on the communities who need it most.

Read the blog posts below to find out more about life as MSF advocacy staff, or click here to find out more about applying to join the team.

Jo Kuper

Advocacy

The women of South Sudan: "After this conflict we have nothing more to say…"

Touchdown Leer, southern Unity state.

29 Sep 2014 / 5 minute read

Jo Kuper

Advocacy

"We need dry land"

By the gate, an old lady lies down in the mud, defeated. Skeleton thin she is wearing a threadbare cotton dress. She has no shoes.

28 Aug 2014 / 4 minute read

Ritu Gambhir

Advocacy

Return to Tissi

Last month I returned to Tissi. MSF shares a small plane with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and we use it to transport staff, supplies and patients to and from Tissi.

09 Jul 2013 / 5 minute read

Last night I sat in my tent (which I share with seven other expats) and cried.

16 May 2013 / 4 minute read

There are more people arriving from Mogadishu. The first woman we met is 70 years old, the same age as my father, it is hard to believe how different their two worlds are.

19 Nov 2007 / 2 minute read

In MSF we are always constantly aware of the impossible choices that the people in places like Somalia face on a daily basis.

18 Nov 2007 / 2 minute read

Running and not looking back

We went to a camp on the other side of town today. I was not expecting to find such large numbers of Mogadishu displaced in the camps.

15 Nov 2007 / 3 minute read

Galcayo is dusty and hot, when you look around this is the type of picture that someone who has never been here probably has of Somalia.

14 Nov 2007 / 2 minute read

Tirana Hassan

Advocacy

Fistulas and Fighting

Today I am en route to Galcayo, that is a town on the cusp of a region of Somalia they call Puntland. MSF runs quite a big hospital here.

13 Nov 2007 / 3 minute read

Tirana Hassan

Advocacy

"No safe place in Mogadishu"

Read MSF's latest Press Release : "No safe place in Mogadishu" – 05 November 2007

05 Nov 2007 / 1 minute read

We are flying out today.

27 Oct 2007 / 3 minute read

Lady, where do you think we can go?

I was speaking to some of the women today and some of the staff about the In-Patient Department (IPD). They were telling us about their experience when the shelling occurs.

26 Oct 2007 / 2 minute read

Somalia

HEALTHCARE

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