If you were forced to leave your home because of violence, conflict, or extreme poverty, how would you feel? What would you bring with you? How would you provide for your basic needs along migration routes, like water, food, and your physical safety? If you or a loved one needed medical care, where would you turn?
These are some of the questions that weigh on the minds of the 100 million people who are currently forcibly displaced around the world. Often with nowhere to receive care, they come to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)—and for refugees around the world, MSF is a lifeline.
In 2022, MSF provided more than 108,510 medical and 10,183 mental health consultations to migrants and asylum seekers, including thousands of children. Our teams working along the migration route in Central America witness the physical and psychological impact of migration on children, particularly on those under five years old.
Our psychosocial teams talk to children like Pedro, who is trying to migrate to the United States with his parents and uncle from Guatemala. When they arrived at the US border earlier this year, authorities wouldn’t let Pedro through with his family. Rather than leave anyone behind, his family searched for another way across the border:
“We tried crossing the river, but we couldn’t because the water was flowing too fast and there were, like, seven sharks and the water levels were too high. We left quickly because the cartel came to remove people. We got on a raft, and…we were doing well until immigration caught us… We came back and stayed in a warehouse for many days, and I ate the same food every day. We could only eat rice and beans.”
MSF has been working along migrant routes in Mexico since 2013. That’s ten years of being a lifeline for children like Pedro, providing blankets, hygiene kits, and medical and mental health care. You can be a lifeline for migrant and refugee children in Central America—and for people caught in crises around the world—when you make a matched gift to MSF today >>
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2023 marked a grim milestone: 100 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, the highest number in modern history.
MSF has been scaling up its efforts to meet this growing crisis. At migration centers in Panama, our teams treated 669 people with chronic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, and asthma.
The increase in people fleeing violence and poverty in Central America has meant an increase in patients. MSF teams have been able to meet this demand and continue to offer medical, prenatal, and psychological consultations thanks to generous donors.
This increase in migration has also meant an increase in health risks, particularly for children. Overcrowded shelters make it easier for disease to spread and the lack of private, secure spaces for women and children contributes to the high rate of gender-based violence. The strain on supplies like clean water and uncontaminated food has caused a spike in cases of children with diarrhea and life-threatening dehydration.
Facilities, staff, and resources have been pushed to the limit during 2023. Before the year ends, we urgently need supporters like you who believe that every person needs access to high-quality, compassionate health care—no matter who they are or where they live.
Thanks to a generous group of donors, your donation will be MATCHED, dollar-for-dollar, up to $1 million, until midnight on December 31.
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Many people have risked everything in the hopes of securing safe, healthy futures. With your support, friend, MSF teams are able to be there, providing essential medical humanitarian aid.
P.S. If your year-end gift and our email have crossed paths, we apologize and sincerely thank you for your generosity!
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All gifts given, up to $1,000,000, will be doubled through 11:59 p.m. on December 31. Every dollar you give will be matched with $1. Gifts received after the match has been met will not be matched but will be used where needed most. |
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