Doctors without Borders

By tim.redsox

  • Doctors Without Borders Founded

  • First large scale Program

    DwB 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. Pol Pot was a communist ruler In Cambodia.

  • First Surgery in Lebanon

    DwB preforms first surgery in a war zone.

  • Starvation in Somalia

    In 1992 DwB alerts the international community to starvation in Somalia and opens programs to treat starving children and adults.

  • Rwandan Genocide

    In 1994 During the Rwandan Genocide, DwB stayed in the capital, throughout the genocide of more than 800,000 Tutsis by Hutu extremists, and. DwB makes the decision to call for international military intervention
    In 1996 with the massacres still happening in Rwanda, DwB assist the refugees forced out of their homeland into neighboring countries.

  • Vacinations in Nigeria

    1996 DwB vaccinated more than 4 million people in Nigeria against meningitis and creates special centers to treat thousands more that become infected in a massive outbreak.

  • Worldwide locations

    In 1996 DwB-Norway is founded, joining more than 10 other worldwide locations for DwB.

  • Hurricane Mitch, Access to medicine, Nobel Peace Prize

    In 1999 Hurricane Mitch hit struggling countries in Central America; DwB assisted the victims in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
    In 1999 with millions of people dying every year from treatable diseases, DwB started an international effort for increased access to medicines for the poor countries.
    In 1999 DwB receives a Nobel Peace Prize for their humanitarian work on several continents
    In 1999 DwB asks Russian forces to grant them access to the city of Grozny to aid the civilians

  • Aid under Attack, Tsunami, Water in Sudan, Aid Murdered

    With aid workers under attack in 2004, DwB closes its medical programs In Bagdad, Iraq.
    After the Tsunami hit South Asia in 2004, DwB receives $133 million from the public and has to ask people to stop making donations because they received more funding than needed. They also ask people to derestrict their donations so they can be used for other emergencies.
    In 2004 during one of the largest emergency responses in their history. DwB started water-and-sanitation programs, clinics, and vaccination

  • Haiti relief, Pakistan Floods

    In 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti DwB treats more than 173,757 patients, and performed more than 11,748 surgeries in five months.Cholera also hits and DwB helps at least 60 percent of the infected.
    In 2010 DwB responded to massive floods in Pakistan helping 80,000 patients and distributing nearly 2 million liters of clean water.