As I write you this note, many communities here in the United States are taking tentative steps to reopen in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. So many changes that seemed unimaginable just a few months ago—practicing physical distancing, wearing a mask—have become the new normal for many of us. 

But that’s not the case for refugees and other displaced people who have been forced from home. 

Around the world, people displaced by conflict, persecution, and violence are far from home—and their crisis is far from over. COVID-19 is another dangerous risk for people on the move, compounding an incredibly difficult situation: How can you keep your distance from others in a crowded refugee camp, or wash your hands without access to clean water?

Doctors Without Borders stands with refugees. Our teams are on the ground now, dedicated to delivering urgent medical care to people forced from home. That’s why we set a goal to raise $240,000 for World Refugee Day, this Saturday, to help us continue this lifesaving work. 

Will you make a gift today—before World Refugee Day—to help us send medical aid where it’s needed most?

Our medical teams work where others can’t—or won’t—to deliver care to vulnerable people forced from home:

• At the US-Mexico border, we’ve opened COVID-19 treatment centers, caring for refugees and people deported from the United States with suspected cases of the coronavirus.
• In Yemen, our teams run the only COVID-19 treatment center in the southern part of the country, home to more than three million displaced by years of war.
• In Bangladesh, we’re working to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak in the world’s largest refugee camp, which shelters hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people who fled persecution and targeted violence in neighboring Myanmar.

We must keep going. You can help us continue providing medical care to forcibly displaced people—those who will be hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic—in the weeks and months to come. 

That’s why I’m urging you to make a gift today to help us reach our $240,000 World Refugee Day goal. We’re counting on you to help us reach this goal—to ensure we can continue to care for refugees and other vulnerable people in more than 70 countries.

World Refugee Day is this Saturday, so if you’re able, please don’t wait to act: Donate to Doctors Without Borders now and help save lives around the world.

Thank you,

Avril Benoît
Executive Director
Doctors Without Borders USA