Doctors Without Borders Goes Where the Hurt is Happening

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Giving to charities can often be a risky business because there are many unscrupulous organizations who would like to have some of your money - organizations whose primary purpose seems to be to feed their founders and administrators rather than relieve the actual suffering and pain of the unwashed masses.   But there are also plenty of good groups out there, ones who actually go in and address human needs right at the point of the suffering.

Doctors Without Borders is an international group that sends physicians, medical personnel, and life-saving medicines and equipment to some of the most desolate places on earth, places that are in the throes of a humanitarian crisis.  For those concerned with the credibility of charities, and we all should have a good understanding of the honesty and efficacy of groups we help to fund, Doctors Without Borders received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, a clear indication that it does the critical work that it purports to do.

Doctors Without Borders doesn't go into a crisis situation to choose sides or promote political ideologies. They arrive, roll up their sleeves, and go to work relieving pain and suffering.  Their mission is to serve humanity, and they do it selflessly and tirelessly.  

Doctors Without Borders goes where the need is.  The organization finds a way in, and it works nonstop to meet the medical needs and trauma of humanitarian crises caused by natural disasters, disease, and war.   I have supported the group with a monthly contribution - and often additional donations - for nearly twenty years - ever since the massive tsunami in Southeast Asia in 2004 that killed almost a quarter of a million people.  Yesterday evening I donated again.

I know that my meager donations are helping because Doctors Without Borders is right there - where the hurt is happening.