Healing Our World: Inside Doctors Without Borders (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781554550500)

When children are caught in civil wars, when earthquakes destroy homes and villages, when AIDS and other diseases shatter families and communities - the volunteers of Doctors Without Borders are there. Their mission is simple - to bring life-saving care to the world's neediest people and to speak out when the rights of the people in their care are abused or violated.

M decins Sans Fronti res, known in English as Doctors Without Borders and by its volunteers as MSF, is the world's largest independent medical humanitarian relief organization. Every year, more than 3,000 MSF volunteers and 12,000 local men and women bring medical aid to people in more than 70 countries.

In Healing Our World, David Morley presents his own story and the stories of other MSFers who have volunteered in some of the most dangerous and forgotten corners of the world - the Congo, El Salvador, Chechnya, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Afghanistan, southern Africa. These are stories about healing and helping people, about making the world a better place - stories filled with sorrow and hope, anger and idealism, determination and passion.

Healing Our World includes information about MSF's history, how it selects its volunteers and decides where to send them.

Includes photographs from the field.

Author: David Morley
ISBN-10: 1554550505
ISBN-13: 9781554550500
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2008
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.28h x 7.49w x 0.33d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 123128 / Healing Our World: Inside Doctors Without Borders

Award: Moonbeam Children's Book Award - Bronze Medal Winner