Partnership’s description

ALIMA and DWB Switzerland are partners in the development of the project to control malnutrition and malaria in Niger.

DWB Switzerland which is mainly dedicated to medical emergencies, supporting this project helps to create a local participant capable of acting as relay once the emergency phase is over.  For the joint project, DWB Switzerland’s support has been primordial, on the one hand to provide access to significant funding (ECHO) and on the other, the financial contribution during the first 12 months of the project enabled its launch.

DWB’s presentation

Since its foundation in 1981, the main objective of DWB/MSF-Switzerland has been “to contribute to protect lives and to relieve suffering, in the respect of human dignity, by bringing care to disadvantaged people and by trying to help them to regain control of their lives”. Today, more than hundred employees, supported by a huge number of volunteers, cover the functioning of this organization.

MSF-Switzerland is part of the MSF Movement and, consequently respects the principles of the MSF Charter: “Doctors Without Borders bring help to deprived populations, to the victims of natural or human disasters, during war times, without any discrimination based on race, religion, ideological or political opinion.”

Working on the principles of neutrality and impartiality, Doctors Without Borders claims the full freedom in their actions in the name of universal medical ethics and the name of the right of humanitarian assistance.

MSF-Switzerland is committed to the respect of the ethical principles of their profession and to a total independence towards any power, as well as any political, economic or religious authority.

Those engaged as volunteers are conscious of the risks and dangers of their missions and will not demand for themselves or their legal successors any compensation other than that planed for them by the association.

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