World Refugee Day 2008

E-newsletter Issue 58 | June 2008

 

MSF URGENTLY SEEKS FIELD WORKERs

MSF urgently seeks field workers

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is the world’s leading independent international organisation for emergency medical assistance. Last year the Australian section sent over one hundred Australians and New Zealanders to work in the field on projects in over sixty countries.

This year, we need to send even more. At the moment we’re facing a number of emergencies in different parts of the world. We’re responding as best we can, but to continue to be able to do this, we need your help.

We are urgently seeking nurses and doctors with experience working in rural, remote or developing contexts that are available to leave at short notice, and we hope you might be able to help. So, if you’ve ever thought you might like to join our team and would like to find more information about life in the field, please see our recruitment page and come along to one of our upcoming information night events.

If you’ve already been to the field and are considering going back for more, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you again.

If you can’t go to the field but you know someone you think may be interested in working with Médecins Sans Frontières please forward this newsletter to them on our behalf.

Thank You. Your support for our work is invaluable.  

Sean Healy, Head of Field Human Resources

WORLD REFUGEE DAY SPECIAL FEATURE - 20 June 2008
To mark World Refugee Day, Médecins Sans Frontières speaks out about the violent conditions faced by thousands of Somalis and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden and the ongoing dire predicaments of the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar (Burma)  living in Bangladesh...» » Read more

ETHIOPIA: MSF expands nutritional programs in southern regions of Ethiopia
Since Médecins Sans Frontières started its intervention in the Oromiya region on 13 May, over 700 children with complicated severe malnutrition have been admitted to its three stabilisation centres in Shashemene, Ropi and Senbete Shinquille..» read more

KENYA: A Terrorised Population in Desperate Need of Assistance
The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is calling for an immediate increase in assistance for the people of Mount Elgon in western Kenya, and an end to the indiscriminate violence they have been enduring for almost two years..» read more

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