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.

Keiber, a father from Venezuela travelling through the Darien Gap.

“The Darien jungle is the worst thing I have experienced in my life. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. We thought it would be easier, but it really is hard. It’s a completely unforgettable experience.”

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Asifiwe, pregnant with her third child and living in Kanyaruchinya displacement camp, Democratic Republic of Congo.

“It is really difficult to be pregnant in the camp. We are four people sleeping in this tiny hut, latrines are often full, I do not eat enough… it is a daily struggle.”

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Mariam, a pregnant woman who was forced to flee from the north of Gaza to the south.

“I came here to give birth. I had a caesarean section. Doctors Without Borders took care of us.”

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Melua, a 65-year-old who left Myanmar with her family due to violence.

“In the urgency of it all, I grabbed a few essential documents and our family portraits: my daughter’s birth certificate and a family photo. I even left behind clothes I had freshly washed.”

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Al Bakri, who was injured twice by the fighting in Sudan and lost his nephew.

“The war brought nothing but destruction and separation of families. We lost our home, and we lost our city, Khartoum.”

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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.