To view a web version of this message click here We need you on our team to help save lives. SOUTH SUDAN 2014 © Jacob Simkin/MSF As the fighting in South Sudan has intensified over the past three months, Doctors Without Borders emergency teams continue to save lives in 20 projects across the country. Join the dedicated group of donors who help make our work possible. Become a Field Partner before April 4 >> Dear Randall, I got the call from our Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency desk on the weekend before Christmas. Fighting in South Sudan had broken out a few days before, and we needed to quickly get a team into areas where a growing number of injured and displaced people had nowhere to turn for urgent medical care. My colleagues and I left the next day. Thats how it works. When youre part of a Doctors Without Borders emergency team, you learn to be flexible, to expect the unexpected. As someone who has been on many emergency assignments with Doctors Without Borders, I know just how important it is to respond quickly to a crisis like the conflict in South Sudan, and I know that it is loyal monthly donors – our Field Partners – who make our rapid response possible. That is why Im asking you to help Doctors Without Borders continue to respond in South Sudan while staying ready for the next crisis by making your first monthly gift today. As soon as we landed in South Sudan, we went right to the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Bentiu and started doing emergency surgery that evening. But, 36 hours later, the security situation deteriorated rapidly and we had to evacuate the team to work at another emergency project in Nasir. I dont know of any other organization that could do what Doctors Without Borders is doing in South Sudan right now. It is taking every ounce of our skill and experience to get medical attention to people while keeping our teams safe amid so much turmoil. But we wouldnt expose our medical teams to the risks – or ask you to help us – if we werent saving lives and alleviating suffering. Situations this unstable are always a challenge from a surgical point of view, but for me its the children I find most difficult. I vividly remember operating on little 11- and 12-year old boys and girls with gunshot wounds. Seeing them conscious and recovering the day after surgery is what kept me going. Weve set a goal of 200 monthly donors to help us respond to conflicts and other emergencies in the months ahead, so please join before our April 4 deadline. Please hurry, were still 74 short of our goal and the deadline is April 4. As South Sudan, Central African Republic and other places around the world have erupted in conflict, I hope youll take this opportunity to deepen your commitment to saving lives. What you do makes this all possible. Its important. And you should feel good about that. Dr. Paul McMaster, Surgeon Doctors Without Borders Emergency Team Field Assignment: South Sudan This email was sent to andrew_redmon073@yahoo from the U.S. section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care. If you would like to stop receiving email like this please click here to unsubscribe. If you would prefer to stop receiving all email from Doctors Without Borders then please click here. 333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001-5004 | Phone: 212-679-6800 Make a donation: Toll-free at 1-888-392-0392 7 days a week | Donate Online Copyright Statement | Privacy Policy uptilt/c.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=6ty,1t0fs,30dh,bdks,3632,1qnh,i3ja&querysource=AD11402A1D02
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