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Doctors without Borders intro
On this date doctor without borders was created to help send the best doctors to help people in undeveloped countries founded by Jacques Beres and others and won many awards like the Nobel Peace Prize. -
Donations
How the funds are used program services 88.7% and fundraising 10.4% and Management and general 0.9% -
Cambodians Flee Khmer Rouge
Doctors without Borders establishes in its first large-scale medical program during a refugee crisis, providing medical care for waves of Cambodians seeking sanctuary from Pol Pot’s rule. -
War In Lebanon
Doctors without Borders first major response in a war zone -
Competing visions lea to a split at Doctors without Borders
led by Dr.Claude Malhuret and Dr. Francis Charhon, Doctors without Borders moves beyond its modus operandi of sending isolated doctors to crisis zones in favor of creating a more structured organization that can provide quality medical services in crises. Co-founder Dr. Bernard Kouchner leaves in protest and later founds Doctors of the World. -
War in Afghanistan
after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the final days of 1979, triggering a war that would last a decade, Doctors without Borders medical teams clandestinely cross the Pakistani–Afghan border and travel by mule for several weeks to reach injured civilians living in remote areas -
New Offices
Doctors without Borders offices open in Belgium and Switzerland -
Earthquake in Armenia
Doctors without Borders provides medical care in the Soviet Union for the first time. -
Doctors without Borders opens in USA
doctors without border opens an office in New York City, its first outside Europe. A year later, offices open in Canada and Italy as well, and the International Office is formed, based in Geneva. -
US invades Afghanistan
Following 9/11 Doctors without Borders briefly evacuates many members of its international staff from Taliban-held areas, relying on Afghan staff to keep medical programs running in the initial phases of the US-led invasion. By November, however, international staff returns and programs continue -
Treating victims of mass rape
In the first few weeks of the year, Doctors without Borders responds to two incidents of mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo, treating, all told, more than 100 women, children, and men for sexual assault after they were attacked by militias operating in the area.
