Have you ever thought of entering an operating theatre to see what goes on there? Or to step inside a tent specialized in the treatment of Malaria patients or in a tent that provides health care for children suffering from malnutrition? Do you want to meet humanitarian volunteers and learn more about the risks and difficulties they face while carrying out their work?

If you really want to satisfy that wish to find out, then you actually can…because MSF’s convoy is coming to the region.

This one however is different from the usual convoys that travel the world to provide free medical assistance to people in distress and who are unable to have access to health care.

Its an exhibition that will tour the Middle East to better identify the populations to MSF’s medical and humanitarian work around the world, while at the same time focusing on its activities in the Arab region.

Entitled “MSF convoy,” the exhibition which is MSF’s first of its kind in the Arab world, will be launched from Amman, Jordan on March 4. Jordan is the first stop in its regional journey and the Amman exhibition will be launched under the patronage of Queen Rania Al-Abdullah at the Al-Hussein Cultural Center. The second stop will take place at Mecca mall, and the third at the University of Science and Technology. The fourth stop will take place in April at the Jordan University Hospital.

The exhibition includes photographs which illustrate MSF’s principles that have been translated into lifesaving action in missions all over the world. MSF is an independent medical and humanitarian organisation which provides medical relief in more than 60 countries spread over five continents.

MSF volunteers will help exhibition visitors cross borders and enter – even if only briefly – the world of MSF in order to better identify the nature of its work which has touched the lives of millions all over the world. Visitors will get a first hand encounter with typical MSF field operations by entering a medical tent where surgical operations are conducted in different countries and will experience how a malnourished child in Niger or Congo is being weighed and diagnosed by MSF workers in another MSF tent.

The exhibition will shed light on a number of MSF field operations in Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan and Pakistan.

Join our convoy to discover the world of MSF and become part of our humanitarian action...