Dorothee
Germany
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Last Saturday my boyfriend Jörn and I both went to the Christmas-market in Reutlingen – despite the fact that Jörn hates marketplaces. There was a stall where members of “Doctors Without Borders” would tell you about their work if you just asked them to do so. The gentleman I addressed told me: >Even though this subject has disappeared off the media, “Doctors Without Borders” still treats thousands of Ebola-patients in Liberia. To avoid a transmission of the disease doctors need to wear special protective suits. >Almost 86% of the donation-money they receive goes straight to their projects all around the world. >Despite the old cliché that most refugees would try to reach the EU, North America or Australia it seems that most Sudanese refugees while being forced to abandon their old homes still don’t want to leave the country altogether. Thus they go to Sudanese refugee-camps. There they are save, but they still need to be supported by organisations like “Doctors Without Borders”. >In more than 60 countries they treat about 340.000 patients who are HIV-infected. >For the year 2016 already 78.500 surgeries by “Doctors Without Borders” are planned. >Other problems they take care of involve malaria, meningitis, malnourishment or the fact that in many countries people neither know about vaccines nor about any other way to prevent certain lethal diseases from spreading.
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