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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) opened today in Cartagena exhibition 40 Years of Independent Humanitarian Action, a photographic exhibition that traces the history of the organization and the principles that have guided their work over the past decades and will run until March 31 on the first floor of the Cultural Center Ramón Alonso Luzzy.
MSF was born in 1971 at the hands of a group of doctors and journalists, frustrated about because the mandate of the organization they worked prevented them testify about the genocide of the Ibo in Biafra (Nigeria, 1968), others by the inefficiency with who attended the victims of the floods in 1970 in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
Both advocated an independent medical action of political or economic interests him to come where victims of emergencies populations required it to provide assistance and testimony.
Today, MSF is a leading independent humanitarian organizations in the world, and unfortunately has little to celebrate, as the crises that currently responds very reminiscent of the first emergencies in which the organization intervened 40 years.
In the presentation to the media has been delegated to MSF for the Region of Murcia, Mila Font, q ue source stressed solidarity organization that tries to bring medicine to everyone as a basic right, and Councilman Care Social, Antonio Calderon, who has expressed satifecho for the opportunity given to present this work to Cartagena.
The exhibition is complemented with the screening on Thursday, February 26, a documentary about the work of this NGO along this time, in collaboration with the Regional Film.
It will take place at 20.30 hours in the classroom culture Sabadell-CAM Street with free entry to fill seats.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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