You are the vital link that makes Doctors Without Borders medical care possible.
Doctors Without Borders team members made up of doctors, nurses, logisticians, and other experts.
Doctors Without Borders’ lifesaving work is built on connections—between you, our teams, and our patients. These connections are what allow us to travel rough roads and choppy waters to get vaccines, medicines, and critical care to our patients. None of this is possible without the threads that connect us.
And it starts with your support.
The act of humanitarianism comes down to one thing: Individual human beings reaching out to those others who find themselves in the most difficult circumstances.”
Dr. James Orbinski, former International President of Doctors Without Borders, 1999 Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
Your gift connects lifesaving care to communities caught in conflict and crisis.
When an emergency strikes, Doctors Without Borders mobilizes doctors, nurses, and other experts to assess immediate needs. Our teams deliver essential supplies and medicines from warehouses across the globe—navigating complex supply chains and remote terrain to reach people in need. Every donor joins a global movement of people committed to saving lives.
Here’s how we put your donations to work:
Your support creates a connection to care for children in vulnerable situations.
Connecting women and families to essential care starts with generous donations like yours.
On my toughest days, I gain strength knowing that donors like you are powering our efforts. Time and time again, during my 15 years working with Doctors Without Borders, I have seen how your donations make a difference."
Dr. Belén Ramírez-Bourdages, Doctors Without Borders Physician
Apuk Yak holds her daughter Alek Kuot safely in her arms. She was assisted during the delivery by our midwife Akucpir Benjamin. Doctors Without Borders runs the maternity unit in Aweil State Hospital in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan.
Abuk Thiek Malek travelled for almost eight hours to get to the neonatal intensive care unit at the Doctors Without Borders-supported Aweil State Hospital, with her newborn son, Rou. He is receiving treatment for a rare life-threatening bacterial infection. They are from a village near Akon in Warrap State, South Sudan.
Our teams deliver urgent, lifesaving surgical care in conflict zones.
Delivering medical care—and hope—directly to patients around the world
For so many of our teams, they’re not just treating patients or people in need, they’re treating their neighbors.
This is the work you are supporting. You’re not just putting scalpels into the hands of surgeons, or helping distribute clean water—although that is a vital part of our work. You are also powering patient-first, community-centric work. Our teams are able to provide compassionate care because of you.
📍Emergency Highlight: Ebola disease outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Hear from our experts: Dang Bahyia-Batinda, Epidemiologist Dr. Alex Bonane Murutsi
Your gift places supplies in the hands of our staff caring for patients in an Ebola treatment center
$500 provides personal protective equipment for five staff members
📍Emergeny Highlight: Malnutrition in Lebanon
How is the conflict affecting our staff on a personal level?
"Our teams are living the same reality as the people they are treating. You have staff coming to work after moving their families overnight, not knowing if their homes are still intact. Others are commuting through difficult conditions just to reach the clinics or the office or the mobile clinic teams. And still, they show up. There is a lot of fatigue—physical and emotional—but also a very strong sense of duty. People feel responsible for their communities. At the same time, there’s a lot of solidarity within the teams. People check on each other constantly; they share information and support each other.
What is always striking is how our team adapts. How we keep things agile is really amazing and inspiring. It reminds you that in this kind of context, what matters is continuity—being present and making sure that the care doesn’t stop, even in the middle of everything that is happening.” —Dr. Luna Hammad, MSF medical coordinator in Lebanon
📍Connectedness and Community in Jordan
We are brothers and sisters here. We understand each other because we know what it feels like. We share the same pain.
Hossam, injured in Iraq
On top of having these injuries, the feeling of being alone makes it all much more painful. You need someone to talk to. Physical pain goes away when you have someone to laugh with.
Iyad, 17, from Gaza
Iyad from Gaza and Hossam from Iraq have become close friends since meeting at the hospital months ago. They spend time outside of their treatment sessions playing football, sharing meals, and challenging each other on the PlayStation. After their treatment, Iyad and Hossam hope to visit each other in their home countries.
📍Humanity and Hope in Nigeria
The skin-on-skin contact allows the child to synchronize their breathing. Adeya held her close day in, day out. Her chances of survival had been so low. Now, with our help, Chinara had a whole life ahead of her.
Lazarus Mago, Neonatal Nurse Supervisor.
Zara Tijjani Bunu practices kangaroo mother care with her baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Kushari Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEMONC) facility in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.
Doctors Without Borders Health Promoter, Hawa Tauko Audu and MSF Community Health Educator, Faize Ali Adamu.
📍Resilience and Dedication in Tanzania
My life's work has been about breaking that silence, replacing it with the sound of a first breath, a baby's cry, or a mother's exhausted sigh of relief... Every life saved keeps a family whole.
Olinzia Kamairo, Midwife
Furaha Walumpupu, Midwife Activity Manager, with Zainabo Rajabu (31) and her child in the maternity ward of Liwali B hospital. She thanks Doctors Without Borders for the care it provides, especially the ambulance service, and hopes that in the future it will be able to provide even more services.
A mother with her baby in Liwali B hospital’s maternity ward. Doctors Without Borders staff are trained to take action by relying on the “Big Four” life-savers: managing hemorrhages, treating eclampsia, neonatal resuscitation, and infection prevention.
📍Finding joy in recovery in Lebanon
Art-based support allows them to express what they cannot yet name. Hamida's drawing held connection, play, and loss. Sharing that memory was emotional processing, allowing her to externalize grief in a safe, supported space.
Glykeria Koukouliata, Mental Health Activity Manager (internationally mobile Psychologist)
Hamida, a 13-year-old Syrian refugee, drew a massive, vibrant mulberry tree from her homeland.
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Your donations could…
- Deliver emergency kits to earthquake survivors in Venezuela
- Send surgeons to operate on wounded people in Sudan
- Power nurses to fight cholera in Haiti
I'm forever grateful to the people who donate to Doctors Without Borders. Even though I don't know you personally, I can see the very real way your gift touches lives. You inspire us every day to put in our best work.
Lazarus Mago,
Neonatal Nurse Supervisor, Maiduguri