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Hi, my name is Marc Dubois
and I am the general director of Medecins Sans Frontieres here in the UK.
The reason I chose to work in MSF is because of what we do.
What we are is we're a medical humanitarian organisation
that means, when there is a crisis in the world
like a hurricane or an earthquake
but also conflict and war and forced displacement
and exclusion from medical care
what we do, is we go and we trying save lives and alleviate suffering.
We are working right now as an organisation in about 60 countries all around the world
and that means we've got programs there, however is a vaccination program
or maybe running a hospital or a set of clinics
and what happen is that people
let's say doctors, or engineers, or financial people, or nurses or nutritionists
who want to work for the organisation apply
and if the meet the qualifications then they go into a pull of people
and at some point we send them out
and they can be very very busy, for instance after the Haiti earthquake
we needed hundreds of people to be sent to aid
to really have a much larger program then normal
and in other places it can be a very small team
but the point is, we have experts designing programs on the ground
that are directly of benefit to people.
Well I think when I look at the world you can see improvement
but the world is still a mess, and MSF is busier and needed in more places than ever.
War, disease, preventable disease and earthquake and natural disasters
continue to place people in crises, in hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people
and so, you know, things are getting better in some parts of the world
but in some others people do need emergency assistance
and need us to deliver that.
When I look at the future, well, of course I don't know what's going to happen
but I don't see a mankind
a humankind that's going to be free from war, pestilence and plague
I see us just being busy as ever
and I see us facing new challenges
like the challenges created by the climate change
or just the difficult political situation in the world where
as a large humanitarian organisation
sometimes we can't even get to people in aid because people are shooting at us.
So I don't look at the future with a lot of optimism
even though certainly there are improvements, and I hope I am wrong.
You know, when I look at the young generation today
I almost feel like: see all the grey on my beard
I don't expect much different out of the youths of the West
there are some very involved
and some who just seem to be, you know
worried more about what they are going to buy
or watching some kind of reality TV show.
I think what's really really exiting
is what we from the youths in places like Africa and Asia
where they are taking to the streets and changing their countries
and I think that's something that's going to be very very interesting
when we look over the next ten years.
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