Since the launching of the MSF Korea office in 2012, it has grown in many aspects. With your support, MSF Korea has been able to send qualified professionals to the field, fund medical projects, and advocate for the growing number of people facing acute needs in humanitarian crises around the world.
Today, emergency humanitarian response grows ever more complex and challenging, as faced by MSF teams working in simultaneous emergencies across the globe, from Liberia to South Sudan, from Ukraine to Iraq.
A common thread of abandonment is seen: during the height of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, many patients were left to die on their own, stripped of their dignity; in war zones, such as Yemen and Syria, the sick are often unable to escape to safety, denied access to care; and people seeking refuge from war or persecution in the Mediterranean region, Southeast Asia, and Latin America remain largely ignored and thus highly vulnerable.
MSF Korea intends to play an evolving and increasing role in supporting MSF’s field operations to support people in need, through fundraising, recruiting aid workers, and communicating and advocating in Korea. For example, MSF Korea sent two Korean doctors to Sierra Leone to fight Ebola and provide health care for the local populations.
As Korean society embraces its role as an active member of the international community, it will be a key counterpart with MSF in the near future to support our humanitarian medical field actions. Through these activities, we hope to continue to help forgotten and abandoned people affected by armed conflicts, disease epidemics, healthcare exclusion, and natural disasters.
It would be my pleasure to meet with you in person on an appropriate occasion. I look forward to your continued support of MSF in Korea. Thank you for your commitment and cooperation, without which our work would not be possible. Your support enables us to make a real difference in the lives of our patients.
General Director for M̩decins Sans Fronti̬res (MSF) Korea
Dear Madam and Sir,
It is my honor to introduce myself to you as the new General Director of M̩decins Sans Fronti̬res (MSF) Korea.
Since the launching of the MSF Korea office in 2012, it has grown in many aspects. With your support, MSF Korea has been able to send qualified professionals to the field, fund medical projects, and advocate for the growing number of people facing acute needs in humanitarian crises around the world.
Today, emergency humanitarian response grows ever more complex and challenging, as faced by MSF teams working in simultaneous emergencies across the globe, from Liberia to South Sudan, from Ukraine to Iraq.
A common thread of abandonment is seen: during the height of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, many patients were left to die on their own, stripped of their dignity; in war zones, such as Yemen and Syria, the sick are often unable to escape to safety, denied access to care; and people seeking refuge from war or persecution in the Mediterranean region, Southeast Asia, and Latin America remain largely ignored and thus highly vulnerable.
MSF Korea intends to play an evolving and increasing role in supporting MSF’s field operations to support people in need, through fundraising, recruiting aid workers, and communicating and advocating in Korea. For example, MSF Korea sent two Korean doctors to Sierra Leone to fight Ebola and provide health care for the local populations.
As Korean society embraces its role as an active member of the international community, it will be a key counterpart with MSF in the near future to support our humanitarian medical field actions. Through these activities, we hope to continue to help forgotten and abandoned people affected by armed conflicts, disease epidemics, healthcare exclusion, and natural disasters.
It would be my pleasure to meet with you in person on an appropriate occasion. I look forward to your continued support of MSF in Korea. Thank you for your commitment and cooperation, without which our work would not be possible. Your support enables us to make a real difference in the lives of our patients.
Best wishes,
Thierry Coppens