Public Events
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Monday, November 23, 2009 - 8:30 PM
Put Your Ideals Into Practice
Live Recruitment Webinar
Registration for this event has reached capacity. Additional webinars will be held in 2010, so check back for schedule information or attend an in-person info session at a location near you.
8:30 PM Eastern time
7:30 PM Central time
6:30 PM Mountain time
5:30 PM Pacific time
4:30 PM Alaska time
3:30 PM Hawaii time
All prospective medical and nonmedical aid workers: join us for a live teleconference and webinar to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. Human Resources Officers will discuss requirements, and participants will be able to ask questions about the recruitment process and life in the field.
Location
Via teleconference and webinar. Participants will need a phone line to listen to presentation and an internet connection to watch the optional web component.
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November 2 - 30, 2009
Artful Abode Art Show
Art Show and Silent Auction for Doctors Without Borders
Half Moon Bay, CA
This third annual art show and silent auction will be featuring art work by: Carole Brehm, Rashid Bousellam, Kathy Bristol, Mauro Dinucci, John Donohue, Susan Friedman, Carrie Hollister, Clifford Hunt, Leslie Hunt, Judy Johnson-Williams, Richard Kirchner, Margaret Lindsey, Nancy Margulies, Pamela Martin Noyes, Deborah Penrose, Lisa Petrides, Randall Reid, Judy Shintani, Susana van Bezooijen.
There will be a wide variety of art including painting, photography, jewelry, and sculpture on display and available for purchase with proceeds donated to Doctors Without Borders.
The show will be exhibited at M Coffee November 2 – 30 and silent auction bids can be placed until November 29
For more information please contact:
Judy Shintani
(650) 464-4736
www.judyshintani.com Location
M Coffee
522 Main St.
Half Moon Bay, CA
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Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 7:00 PM
The Global Crisis of Childhood Malnutrition: A Not-So Natural Disaster
Panel Discussion at Columbia University
New York, NY
Please join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Humanitarian Affairs Program at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs (SIPA) for a panel discussion about the international response to the ongoing crisis of childhood malnutrition.
The panel:
Dirk Salomons (Moderator) is the director of the Humanitarian Affairs Program at the School of International Public Affairs, Columbia University. Salomons focuses on the interaction between policy and management in humanitarian operations.
David Rieff is an author, non-fiction writer, and policy analyst whose books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarian action, including A Bed for the Night. His current book will investigate the roots of global childhood malnutrition.
Barbara Cooper is the director of the Center for African Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of numerous articles and books on the history of Hausa women in the Maradi region of Niger, including “Chronic Malnutrition and the Trope of the Bad Mother.”
Dr. Anje van Berckelaer is a Philadelphia-based family physician and MSF aid worker who has completed field assignments that included treating children for malnutrition in Niger and the Central African Republic.
Following MSF’s massive intervention during the nutritional emergency in Niger in 2005, when medical teams treated more than 60,000 severely malnourished children, MSF invited a variety of authors to reflect on the multifaceted crisis. The result is the recently released book Niger 2005: A Not-So Natural Disaster, which explores the various lenses through which aid agencies, international institutions, national governments, policy makers, and mothers themselves viewed the crisis and looks at how lessons learned in Niger can be applied to future crises.
Based on this and other field experience treating malnutrition, MSF has identified key policy and programmatic changes that can be made to improve the dire situation faced by millions of vulnerable children each year in the world's malnutrition hotspots of Southeast Asia and parts of Africa including the Sahel and the Horn. In particular, MSF is calling on the United States and other international donors to scale up effective programs and to make sure that food aid meets the nutritional needs of children.
A reception will be held prior to the event at 6 PM.
This event is free, wheelchair-accessible, and open to the public.
Location
Columbia University-SIPA
International Affairs Building
420 W 118th Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10027
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 6:30 PM
Recruitment Information Session
Put Your Ideals Into Practice
Denver, CO
All prospective medical and nonmedical aid workers: join us for a presentation, film, and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
Location
Jazz @ Jack's
Denver Pavilions
500 16th Street #320
Denver, CO 80202
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 6:30 PM
Recruitment Information Session
Put Your Ideals Into Practice
Seattle, WA
All prospective medical and nonmedical aid workers: join us for a presentation, film, and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
Location
REI Seattle
222 Yale Avenue N
Seattle, WA 98109
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November 4, 2009 - January 15, 2010
The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
Photo and Illustration Exhibit in Miami
Miami, FL
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Miami Dade College, and First Second Books are pleased to present a unique exhibit featuring photos and illustrations from the graphic novel THE PHOTOGRAPHER.
In 1986, photojournalist Didier Lefèvre documented a clandestine cross-border humanitarian mission undertaken by a Doctors Without Borders team to assist Afghans stranded without medical care in areas hardest-hit by the Soviet invasion. This one mission was part of a massive humanitarian aid effort launched by Doctors Without Borders in the months following the 1979 Soviet occupation. Dodging Soviet aircraft and navigating treacherous terrain, Lefèvre’s journey nearly cost him his own life. Over a decade later, he collaborated with acclaimed illustrator Emmanuel Guibert to bring this story to life in THE PHOTOGRAPHER, a work translated into eleven languages.
This exhibit offers a glimpse into the book through Lefèvre’s dramatic images and Guibert’s stunning artwork, and bears witness to the atrocities and suffering the Afghan people endured—and still endure today.
Please join us for an opening reception Wednesday, November 4 at 6-8:00 PM at the Centre Gallery on Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus.
The exhibit and reception are free, open to the public, and wheel-chair accessible.
Exhibit hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Wednesdays and Fridays 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
For more information on THE PHOTOGRAPHER, please click here. Location
Centre Gallery
Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus
300 NE Second Avenue
3rd Floor
Miami, FL
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