The international network

The values
of the
Médecins du Monde network

• activism

  As members of a worldwide movement of volunteers and employees, we provide medical services, and we bear witness. Boosted by diversity, we help people who are excluded obtain social change.

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• Empowerment

  We think communities are agents of change in their health journeys. Working side by side, we seek to empower them and help them exercise their rights.

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• Social justice

  We believe everyone should have access to healthcare, well-being, justice, privileges and opportunities, regardless of their legal, political, economic and other kinds of status. We believe that social justice is a vector for equal access to healthcare, respect of fundamental rights and solidarity.

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• INDEPENDANCE

  We are independent of authorities, political, religious and financial interests. We are free to choose our programmes and how we operate. We refuse any form of subordination and encourage dialogue with the people and communities we work with.

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• Balance

  We strive for balance between our national and international operations, between our emergency and long-term programmes, between medical and layman’s knowledge, between public funds and private donations.

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