Over 70 million people are currently fleeing conflict or persecution around the world. Due to their race, religion or nationality, these people’s homes are no longer safe places to live and their governments’ no longer provide them with protection.
MSF works around the world to provide lifesaving assistance to refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs), from providing psychological care to nutritional support.
We set up hospitals in refugee camps, we help women give birth safely, we vaccinate children to prevent epidemics and we provide access to safe drinking water. We also have specialised projects to try to reach those who are on the move, for example in Europe or South America, and throughout Africa.
MSF medical teams have been working in Kario camp in East Darfur for the past 5 years
Safe countries have a duty to facilitate the evacuation of these victims of violence and to protect them on their own soil
Today on World Refugee Day, MSF launches a new mental health intervention at Tongogara Refugee Camp (TRC) in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, a place that has become home to nearly 15,000 refugees.
"Because without MSF, maybe I’d be dead. Like my brothers, like my cousins, like all the people who didn’t make it "
Many people in Afar cannot access the very minimum levels of healthcare, food and water necessary to sustain human life
Since October 2021, the MSF health promotion team in Mueda has partnered with community leaders and traditional birth attendants in Eduardo Mondlane camp in order to support pregnant women and young children.
Far from international media attention, armed violence continues to rage in many parts of the Central African Republic (CAR), forcing entire communities from their homes and onto a path of death and despair.
More assistance is needed to offer decent living conditions and access to medical care to refugees living in the holding camp