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Medecins Sans Frontieres - working to help people

1 Wc interviewed Polly Markandya about Medecins Sans Frontieres. Match our questions with Polly's answers.

1. What do you do exactly?

2. What is Medecins Sans Frontieres?

3. How is it organised?

4. Can you tell me about the history ol Medecins Sans Frontieres?

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>rivale organisation which gives medical help to people all over tM^jd. Our philosophy is to help so we often work with people who are m a war situation. Or maybe there is a natural disaster like the food problem in Ethiopia in the 1980s.

Bis Sans Frontieres was started just over 30 years ago by doctors in Bangladesh and Nigeria. They wanted to give people in wars fast medical help, And these doctors wanted to tell the world about the terrible things they could see. This is the other part of the philosophy of MGdicins Sans Frontieres - to inform the world.

CiirWeginning i! was a French organisation based in Paris. Now we |0T 85 countries and plan our projects Irom three centres; Brussels, faris and Barcelona, which handles many of our Latin American projects. The organisation Is very decentralised and so needs people with a lot of energy to make it work.

Dess officer and work in the communications department of ns Sans Frontieres in London. Half my job is writing I'm responsible tor external and internal reports, but I also work with colleagues to communicate about medicine to the people in India and Africa. And I like that because I know the information I give is very important

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2 Read the (ext again and answer these questions.

1. When was Mtklecins Sans Frontieres started?

2. What is the main activity of Metlecins Sans Frontieres?

3. Where is Medecins Sans Frontieres located?

4. What does Polly like about her job in the organisation?

Wh.ii do you think?

Would you like to work for an organisation like Medecins Sans Frontieres?

The words you need ... to talk about your organisation

headquarters

offices department

based

started

active

1 Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

Organisation profile

1. Medecins Sans Frontieres was over 30 years ago.

2. At the beginning, the was in Paris.

3. We are now in Barcelona. Brussels and Paris.

4. We are very international and have all over the world.

5. We are in 85 countries.

6. I work in the human resources

Make similar sentences about your organisation.

2 Complete the sentences about organisation activities with the correct verb.

Organisation activity

1. Medecins Sans Frontieres medical help in over 85 countries.

2. Cambridge University Press a range of academic, educational

a nd reference books.