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French doctors and journalist created Doctors Without Borders or also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 1971, MSF is identified as “an international medical humanitarian organization”. MSF provides service and aid to people in certain areas that have experienced dramatic wars, natural disasters, or even communities that have no health care available. “MSF helps anyone who is in need, no matter his or her race, political beliefs or religion,” MSF has supported millions of individuals over the past 43 years who have all led a better quality of life since the help of MSF. “The main goal of the project is to provide access to health care for a population that is completely ignored and underserved. Most of the people we are treating have never seen doctors before. I think the impact on the community is quite huge,” believed Rebeckah Piotrowski, deputy field coordinator in Ethiopia’s western Gambella Province.

Over the past 43 years MSF has helped many countries and individuals who were in desperate need for help; one of these events include the tragic earthquake that hit Haiti on the 12th of January 2010. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake killed over 100,000 humans and has an estimated amount of 250,000 residence homes and 30,000 commercial buildings broken or majorly damaged. Those Haitian people that survived this natural disaster quickly tried to flee to Brazil, which was the best choice for them at the time. Doctors Without Borders offered humanitarian aid to Haitian asylum seekers that were situation in a small town by the name of Tabatinga; a state of Amazonas, Brazil. In the December of 2011 MSF started to give out more than 1,300 hygiene kits and other relief items to all those in need. At this time, more than 1,200 Hait...

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Works Cited

"About Us." MSF USA. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2014.
"Brazil: MSF Provides Humanitarian Aid to Haitian Asylum Seekers." MSF USA. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2014.
"Doctors without Borders - RYOT News." RYOT News. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2014.
"DR Congo Army 'used Aid as Bait'" BBC News. BBC, 11 June 2009. Web. 18 May 2014.
Gumuchian, Marie-Louise, Jamie Crawford, Neda Farshbaf, Sara Mazloumsaki, and Nana Karikari-Apau. "'Heavy' Death Toll as Thousands Flee South Sudan Violence, U.N. Says." CNN. Cable News Network, 18 Dec. 2013. Web. 18 May 2014.
"The Nobel Peace Prize." Médecins Sans Frontières Ireland. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2014.
"South Sudan: MSF Condemns Unspeakable Violence in Bentiu." Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2014.
"Sudan: Dozens Killed in Darfur Violence." MSF UK. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2014.

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