Hi Friend,

As the giving season begins, I want to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for your support.

Part of my role at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is to make sure supporters have the resources they need to fully participate in our mission—and that we follow through with impact reports and program metrics to keep you up to date on our work. Specifically, I work with supporters ready to make their first donation.

This year tested our resiliency. Not only are our teams still working to prevent the spread of COVID-19, they are also facing emergencies unrelated to, and made more complex by, the pandemic, including armed conflict, displacement, and more.

Your support allowed us to provide lifesaving medical care during one of the most challenging years we’ve ever worked through.

MSF has active projects in more than 70 countries around the world, and there is a lot of work ahead. But today I’m just here to say, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

I am overwhelmed thinking about what we’ve been able to do this year as a community.

Because of your support, MSF has maintained dedicated COVID-19 activities in 165 projects in more than 50 countries. We’ve also been outspoken activists on equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments and delivered our petition with nearly 130,000 signatures calling on the Biden administration to support global vaccine equity to end this pandemic for everyone, everywhere.

When a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti in August, your support ensured we were able to provide immediate medical care. And as needs continue to evolve, your support allows us to keep providing lifesaving care, supply medication and equipment, and reach people in rural areas with health care and mental health services.

Despite conflict in Afghanistan, your support means that our teams have been able to continue to provide medical care in all of our projects in the Helmand, Herat, Kandahar, Khost, and Kunduz provinces. While many other organizations fled, we stayed put.

We are able to do this work in Haiti, in Afghanistan, and in so many other places around the world because of your commitment to independent, neutral, and impartial medical humanitarian aid where it’s needed most.

Your support allows us to continue the work, even after the headlines fade. I am so grateful for that, as are so many others here at MSF.

Wishing you health and happiness this holiday season from all of us at Doctors Without Borders.

Sincerely,
Vera Eastman
MSF-USA