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Dorothee
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| 11:33 PM Dec 17 2015

Dorothee

Germany

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.

| 12:05 AM Jun 18 2015

Dorothee

Germany

Considering that Tuesday was the “Day of the African Child” “Domradio” interviewed a member of UNICEF. He said that
>by the end of this millennium 50% of the world population will live in Africa and that we shouldn’t waste a precious potential like this.
>every year children and adolescents from all around Africa use this day to demonstrate for their right of education.
>while most people simply blame the uneducated youth of Africa on forced marriage at a young age or on forced labor – meaning more or less blaming the parents of these children only – in some areas the problems are of a different nature. They don’t have the money to build school-buildings, there is nobody around who could be qualified enough to become a teacher, parents don’t want their kids to school as the only school nearby lies in a very dangerous area or is known to be very unhygienic etc.

| 12:05 AM Jun 18 2015

Dorothee

Germany

Considering that Tuesday was the “Day of the African Child” “Domradio” interviewed a member of UNICEF. He said that
>by the end of this millennium 50% of the world population will live in Africa and that we shouldn’t waste a precious potential like this.
>every year children and adolescents from all around Africa use this day to demonstrate for their right of education.
>while most people simply blame the uneducated youth of Africa on forced marriage at a young age or on forced labor – meaning more or less blaming the parents of these children only – in some areas the problems are of a different nature. They don’t have the money to build school-buildings, there is nobody around who could be qualified enough to become a teacher, parents don’t want their kids to school as the only school nearby lies in a very dangerous area or is known to be very unhygienic etc.

| 03:10 AM Oct 11 2014

Dorothee

Germany

“Tagesschau” says that so far 4.000 people have died of the rapid spread of Ebola. Most of them passed away in Liberia.

| 04:11 PM Sep 03 2014

Dorothee

Germany

“Domradio” says that in the LDC’s of Guinea and Liberia the economy has come to an abrupt halt due to the spread of Ebola in these countries. They talk about many hospitals that don’t work anymore as most of the hospital-staff already is dead or too sick to help patients, which results in high numbers of newborns and sick or injured people dying. They talk about people who have lost their jobs as the places where they used to work had to be shut down and they talked about people who haven’t had any access to fresh food as supermarkets and other shops also are closed now due to too little healthy staff. Meanwhile in the LDC of Congo an unknown virus already has killed 60 people b giving them deadly fever.
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Re-upload: This photo may show a daily scene in Liberia, one of the poorest countries worldwide. If you want to learn about an organisation that helps NOT only the people of this country, then you should visit the following website “http://www.caputo-children-fund.org/”. There you’ll even be given the chance of getting involved.

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