Tell the world what is happening to us
Families affected by armed conflict
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides medical humanitarian care in over 70 countries around the world. In many of those settings, we see the impact of conflict and violence on the people we support and work with.
Whenever MSF responds to armed conflicts, we meet families – mothers, fathers, children, grandparents – who often make the same request: “Tell the world what is happening to us.”
Every family affected by war and conflict carries a story – not only of survival amid suffering, but of love, togetherness, grief and a determination to protect each other in the face of crisis.
War and conflict uproot people from their homes, leaving them displaced in their own country or as refugees in another. Treacherous journeys and precarious conditions at the place of destination jeopardize the health of families and can even tear them apart from the people they love most.
Our teams work alongside children and families on the move at their points of arrival or during the treacherous journeys they undertake, inside and outside their countries.