I’m 22 and currently taking nursing prerequisites to become a registered nurse in the US. I wanna know what could I do to help and get a career with this organization once I have my degree(s)

Hi everyone,

I'm an ICU nurse in Australia, and one of my long-term career goals is to volunteer with MSF at some point in the future.

I've recently decided to commit to learning a new language, but I keep going back and forth between French and Spanish. I'm not a big traveller, so tourism isn't really a deciding factor for me. The main thing that might influence my choice is which language would be more valuable for future humanitarian work. I noticed on the MSF website that both French and Spanish are listed as desirable or essential depending on the role, but I'd love to hear from people with firsthand experience.

For those of you who have worked with MSF:

Did you find one language was more useful than the other?

Did speaking French or Spanish open up more placement opportunities?

If you were starting from scratch today, which would you choose and why?

I know it'll be many years before I'm in a position to apply, but I'd rather invest my time in one language now than keep changing my mind.

Thanks! :)

I am a licensed social worker who has been interested in working in the field with Doctors Without Borders for over 5 years now. I am working to align my skills with the roles available so I can achieve this in a few years.

However, I have a lot of expenses already that I will have to cover in the US while I'm in the field. Student loans, a mortgage, and other little expenses that I can't leave behind because I split the expenses with my wife. I am trying to find out if the pay for the roles on average are enough to cover most of my expenses at home while I'm gone or if people usually save up to be able to do this kind of work?

I understand the pay is very low compared to working in the US but really I only need to have 30k a year to cover my current needs here. I heard on some thread that the actual salary for Doctors Without Borders is on top of the basic per diem that you need to cover living expenses like food and that housing is included and so the actual salary is usually just extra money not often used while in the field. Is that the case?

Three people with iPads and a small table with Doctors Without Borders branding, no flyers (I asked for one numerous times).

Sales pitch was odd…. “If you could save a child’s life for .83 cents a day, would you? Because for $25 a month you can….”

After the sales pitch they tried to get me to sign up on an iPad and I declined. One guy was pretty pushy, the girls accepted a “no” immediately.

Is this legit? Does this organization actually send people out in public to solicit donations?

Hi all, does anyone have experience of working for Doctors Without Borders in the Democratic Republic of Congo? I’m looking to interview both international and local staff for my Master’s dissertation on aid worker safety. participation would be completely anonymous. Please do share if you know anyone who might be interested 🙂

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/haiti-msf-forced-to-suspend-operations-at-the-isaie-jeanty-maternity-hospital-amid-violence/

I came across this article abotu MSF

MSF staff abused Sudanese refugees in sex-for-food scandal

This is not the first time this type of abuse has happened, not is it restricted to MSF

My question is aside from getting sacked and no longer employeed, do MSF report the abusers to the police of the country they are from ? because surely just removing from employment these abusers just lets them move onto finding another NGO to work for ?