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Are you an English speaking resident in Denmark and thinking about becoming a volunteer for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), please read the following.

MSF volunteers around the world give life-saving medical assistance to people who would otherwise be denied access to the most basic health care. Every year, around 4,800 international volunteers join local staff helping populations in danger. They bring their motivation, professional abilities and practical experience to their work in the field.
 
Working overseas with MSF in often very difficult conditions is tough and demanding but the rewards are immense.

 
Where does MSF work? 
MSF is increasingly active in areas of conflict - countries where great numbers of people have been displaced by internal conflicts and war, and where the medical facilities are inadequate. Placements in these areas can be dangerous but our strict security policies ensure that risks to our field volunteers are minimized.
 
The medical activities vary with each project, ranging from curative work and mother-child care, to surgery and epidemic control. In some cases, MSF projects may be quite similar to a primary health care program, helping to build up a medical infrastructure.
 
Duration
MSF provides emergency relief but that does not mean these projects are always short-term. Many of the areas in which we operate are affected by long drawn-out conflicts and aid projects can go on for many years.
 
For instance, we have been working in Sudan since 1979. The rapidly changing conditions there make it impossible to plan more than a few months or even weeks ahead. This lack of predictability is typical of relief operations.

Personnel
Although MSF is a medical organization, it would not be able to operate without the support from its technical staff, such as logisticians, building engineers and water and sanitation experts. Dilapidated or destroyed hospitals and clinics need to be rebuilt and adequate sanitary facilities are essential to prevent the spread of epidemics. 

Many of the project staff are recruited from the local population. On average, for every expatriate posted to a specific project there are seven national colleagues. They provide everything from technical and administrative assistance to nursing and medical skills.

Very often our field volunteers return for future missions, attracted by the diversity of projects, the possibility of rapidly rising to senior positions in the field and, most of all, by the sense of satisfaction of making a difference.  
  
As an aid agency specializing in emergency medical assistance, Médecins Sans Frontières has to be rather specific about the type of people we recruit.

Read our Basic Requirements

 

Want to know more?

Come to one of our information meetings, to hear more about volunteering for MSF.

Se the calender for next information meeting in english

 

Apply
NOTE: please contact til HR-officer Alice Calmettes, before filling in the online application below.

Phone: 39775600
E-mail: ac@msf.dk

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