Aronil - The beginning of the blogathon

Ok to be very honest, when I first signed up for the blogathon, I was very very keen. But then I found out that I can be bit of a lazy pig and not want to do it. So thanks to a fellow blogger, he’ll be monitoring my site. I’m going to try and give it a shot and see how many posts I can go.

I am currently blogging for Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres). People may not see it all the time, but there even though World War 2 has ended there are still other wars/ conflicts that are going about. And people are still dying because of these cultural, political conflicts or form natural disasters.

This body (MSF) aims is to deliver emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.

Based on its field experience, MSF is addressing obstacles preventing people in the developing world from obtaining affordable, effective treatments for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. Through its Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, MSF is advocating to lower drug prices, stimulate research and development of new treatments, and overcome trade and other barriers to accessing treatments..

To maintain its operational independence and flexibility, MSF relies on the general public for nearly 80 percent of its operating funds. The remaining 20 percent of funds come from international agencies and governments. The organization counted more than 3.1 million individuals, foundations, corporations, and nonprofit organizations among its donors worldwide in 2004. In 2004, MSF’s worldwide income was $568 million. In the United States, nearly 380,000 private donors contributed more than $91 million to MSF-USA.

View MSF’s Financial Information

—>Taken from the about page of MSF.

Not to make a comparison or a direct relation, but if some of you have seen the movie with Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen in it called Beyond Borders. It was what the character Clive was playing was trying to do. The movie had resembled part of what the actress does in her own humanitarian lifestyle, which began after her trip to Cambodia to shoot Lara Croft. From there after Croft that Angelina Jolie started her journey in becoming more intense with UNHCR.