Ways to Support Doctors Without Borders

Dr. Jasung Kim serves as a psychiatrist at the Lincoln Regional Center in Nebraska. Outside of his work as an inpatient specialist, Dr. Jasung Kim supports several international charities, including Doctors Without Borders.

Doctors Without Borders (also known as Médicins Sans Frontières, or MSF) is a nongovernmental relief organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to those affected by natural disasters, wars, disease outbreaks, neglect, and other crises around the world. A group of French doctors who were determined to assist those affected by war, regardless of the political climate, founded the organization in 1971. Since then, MSF has expanded to assist over 80 countries. In 1999, it received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its work.

The humanitarian organization welcomes assistance in many forms. Volunteers who cannot assist patients and doctors on-site or in the office with administrative or logistical support are encouraged to donate stock, royalties, money, and other supplies. A new initiative calls on volunteers who are unable to donate funds to engage their communities directly through conversations on the street at people’s homes.

The funds raised allow Doctors Without Borders to operate internationally wherever it chooses. That way, the organization does not have to accept government funding that could compromise its ethics.