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MSF conversation starters

Spark discussions with your community and learn more about the humanitarian care you support.

Welcome to MSF Connections: Your discussion guide to sparking meaningful, inspiring conversations about humanitarian issues with people in your community.

Here’s how to use our discussion guide in three easy steps:

  1. Gather with a friend, family member, or colleague—or several!
  2. Skim through our discussion prompts and find a few that resonate with you.
  3. Alternate who is the question-asker and who is the question-answerer. Spark meaningful conversations about what humanitarian values mean to you, and how you can put them into action in your community!
Health promoter Aisha B. talks to a mother about MSF’s malnutrition prevention activities for refugees from Sudan.

Chad 2024 © Ante Bussmann/MSF

Providing care

If you were an MSF aid worker, how would you show compassion to each patient?

Consider those who’ve fled a conflict zone, experienced a natural disaster, or have been affected by a deadly outbreak.

A family of migrants in Guatemala.

Guatemala 2024 © Fernando Alvarado/MSF

Fleeing home

Imagine you are forced to leave behind life as you know it. With little or no time to prepare, what would you grab?

Money or Passport? Cell Phone or Shoes? 
Blanket or Water Bottles? 
Cherished Heirlooms or Pet?

An MSF worker helps a person in a community affected by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines.

Philippines 2024 © Regina Layug Rosero/MSF

MSF and you

We are ethical.
We are neutral, impartial, and independent.
We bear witness.
We are accountable.

Which of our core principles means the most to you?

Mpox Cases Amidst Displacement Sites Near Goma

Democratic Republic of Congo 2024 © Michel Lunanga

Bearing witness

"We are not sure that words can always save lives but we know that silence can certainly kill."

- Dr. James Orbinski, December 10, 1999; Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

How do you and your community bear witness to world events?

Lebanon 2024 © Dalia Khamissy

Seeking safety

122.6 million people worldwide are forcibly displaced, including refugees, asylum-seekers, other people in need of international protection, and internally displaced people.

What are three ways you can speak out and take action—whether in private or public—about the plight of the people that we treat?

How you can help

Not everyone can treat patients in the field. But everyone can do something.

Some humanitarian crises make the headlines—others don’t. Unrestricted support from our donors allows us to mobilize quickly and efficiently to provide lifesaving medical care to the people who need it most, whether those needs are in the spotlight or not. And your donation is 100 percent tax-deductible.

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Unrestricted donations enable MSF to carry out our programs around the world. If we cannot honor a specific request, we will reallocate your donation to where the needs are greatest.

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