UNCC300 Winter 2018: Contribution of Non-Profit Organizations

This report examines the contribution of non-profit organizations, specifically focusing on Doctors Without Borders (MSF), to promoting justice and change in a globalized world. It discusses how these organizations address issues like violence, lack of healthcare, and human rights violations by providing medical assistance and bearing witness to atrocities. The report highlights MSF's role in raising awareness through media and advocating for the rights of vulnerable populations. It contrasts MSF's approach with that of the Red Cross, emphasizing MSF's willingness to speak out against injustices. The analysis underscores the importance of communication and advocacy in achieving a more just and equitable global community, particularly in conflict zones and areas with inadequate healthcare systems. The author reflects on their potential professional contribution to such organizations, emphasizing the importance of speaking out against human rights abuses and advocating for those in need.

THE CONTRIBUTION OF NON PROFIT
ORGANIZATIONS TO A PROFESSIONAL
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Overview of Organisation
 in the face pf violence and limitations of lifesaving medical
care, they speak out to address the condition.
 This way they contribute towards their mission of
alleviating suffering, protecting life and health, and more to
that, restoring human respects and their basic human rights.
 The private non profit organization takes itself as a witness
for the plight of the patients they attend to and thus they
speak out in private or public about the issues the patients
have or how the environment they are affects the occupants.
This is why they are referred to as temoignage.
 MSF has been into existence from its 1971, its creation
year, by some red cross members who were in Nigerian
during the Biafran war.
 MSF was aimed into helping the needy victims of atrocious
events among them war victims.
 Unlike red cross, they would not only treat those in need of
medical services but also publicly and privately talk about
the atrocious events that led to the people facing danger and
experiencing psychological life scaring traumas together
with physical pain that would cause them lifelong health
complications.
Contribution to the Common Good
 Recross were first respondents after acts of violence and came to
assistance of the occupants of different locations in the vent that they
faced imminent danger.
 For this reason, they are well known till today as practices of the
silent diplomacy policy which involves less to rare speaking out of
atrocious acts and ensuring that conflicting parties aren’t on their
backs for interfering, and thus limiting their ability to do their
humanitarian work.
 In the wake of deaths of hundreds of thousands of people due to a
pathetic Nigerian government policy and the silence around the
events and the policy, angered groups of young French doctors and
journalists were able to start MSF.
 This was in direct retaliation to red cross inability to attest to the
events of the war. They risked their own safety for the sake of saving
needy people that needed it more and in a bid to stop similar events
from occurring there or globally.
 Their aim was to draw attention from more medical professionals
who would be able to assist in providing solutions for the afflicted in
warzone as well as address those events.
 The group was determined to not keep silent as the silence was
killing more people and they knew that communication would bring
about global awareness that would cause global reactions to the
situations.
My Professional Contribution
 As a fellow human being, I am called upon by humanity to
not only act in the way of self but to also keep at heart that I
am my brother’s keep and speak out in the face of
organizations, leadership and governorship that contributes or
and brings out atrocious events that put human life at risk.
 The MSF were able to speak out in their first case at the
Nigerian war and since then, they have been able to bear
witness to many of similar .
 Its within my rights to ensure that the obstacles created to
prevent people from attaining safety are brought to light to
create opportunities for asylum and international protection.
 Its also important to bring to light national legislation and
policies that pose as barriers among the present physical
barriers brought about by hardships and violence in various
counties which hinder human rights and access to health care.
 by acknowledging that there are many countries whose health
systems face major challenges from prolonged war situations
causing avoidable deaths from lack of great medical care, its
within my freedoms to provide a way out for those in need of
a voice. This can be by word mouth, social media, the internet
and others.
 This enables improvements and achievements towards the
health system as well as justice systems to curb such events
from occurring in the future.
References
Introduction
 By considering the discussion of the forces that shape our perceptions of group
identity, community, belongingness, and charity, globalization is enabled in a
larger scale.
 This is due to the fact that the same limits we place upon ourselves in seeking
a globalized world, can be the same freedoms we acquire towards the same,
through utilizing the communicative resources that have been availed.
 There has been the rise of doctors without borders organizations (medecins
sans frotntieres), who have taken the power of the media to raise awareness of
public events, evoking social actions.
 This is achieved through ethos of social imaginary in an attempt to untie
individuals to a global community, governments, international institutions as
well as non governmental organizations (NGOs)
 The organization was set up in the believe that the basic principles of
impartiality and neutrality do not exist in silence.
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witness