Contents：
Guiding Principles
History
International Network
Medecins du Monde Japon
Make a Donation
Types of Mission
Contact
Other MDM websites
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●Guiding Principles
Medecins du Monde is an international humanitarian aid organization whose volunteer provide medical care for vulnerable populations around the world.
The first mission of Medecins du Monde is to provide medical aid to the victims of natural disasters, famines, epidemics, infectious diseases (malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis), armed conflicts, political repression, minorities as well as to street children.
Speaking out against those who attempt to be obstacles to the access to healthcare, as well denouncing those who violate human rights and dignity are also missions of Medecins du Monde’s.

Medecins du Monde condemns all forms of injustice, whatever their origin .
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● History
Medecins du Monde was founded in 1980 when fifteen doctors from Doctors Without Borders (including Bernard Kouchner) provided medical care to Vietnamese boat people who were fleeing their country and often drowned in the China Sea doing so.
Since 1981, the number of humanitarian missions in different parts of the world increases: Afghanistan, Salvador, Chad, Mali… and also in France, UK, Spain…, where Medecins du Monde has opened free HIV/AIDS detection centers as well as has created health centers for migrant populations.
Today, the priorities of Medecins du Monde are endangered children populations, the prevention and medical treatment of HIV/AIDS affected individuals as well as to offer medical counseling, care and support to migrants and refugees.
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● International Network
The international structure of Medecins du Monde is composed of twelve independent delegations (Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Spain, United States, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Switzerland). There are also four independent branch offices (Germany, Great Britain, Japan and the Netherlands).
Since 1996, Medecins du Monde has obtained a consultative role of general rank with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
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● Medecins du Monde Japon
The Japanese branch of Medecins du Monde was opened in 1995. Its mission, at the time, was to provide help to the victims of the Kobe earthquake. In 2000, Medecins du Monde Japan became recognized as a legal Non-Profit Organization by the Japanese authorities.
Today, the main activities of the Japanese branch are :

To report medical crisis situations as well as those pertaining to human rights issues.
To generate public awareness, Medecins du Monde Japan organizes photograph exhibits, solicits the press by sending mailings and informs the general public via its newsletter and website.

The recruitment of Japanese volunteers for international missions.
In the past ten years, Japanese surgeons, nurses, and field coordinators have been sent on humanitarian missions to Rwanda, Kosovo, Vietnam, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Indonesia…

Obtaining funds from individual and corporate sponsors.
Medecins du Monde Japan is financed with the continuing support of several thousand individual sponsors as well as with the generous financial support of several Japanese companies: Felissimo, Asahi Pretec, Greeting Life, Sumitomo Fudosan, Alsok, Expat Alliance…

Board of Directors:
Gael AUSTIN (President) CEO of PMC Co.
Arnaud BOURDE Anesthesist
Patrick DAVID Anesthesist
Francois FOUSSADIER Surgeon
Masako HARADA Nurse
Hisanori ISOMURA Essayist
Akitane KIUCHI Axa Japan Special Advisor
Norihiko OHURA Surgeon
Nobuyuki YAMADA Surgeon
Satoshi YOZA Surgeon
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● Make a Donation
Examples of what your donation could do:
・ 4,500 Yens will enable 200 people with infected wounds to be treated in Chechnya
・ 7,000 Yens will give food and shelter to four street children who are victims of the war in the Congo
・ 10,000 Yens will pay for the malaria treatment and save the life of 5 children

Make a regular donation (Smile Club):
Please call us and ask us the dedicated form, or download it from our Japanese website:
http://www.mdm.or.jp/bokin/pdf/smileclub.pdf

Make a one-off donation by card:
Donation by the following credit cards are accepted: American Express, Visa, JCB, Jaccs, Master Card.
Please write down a note indicating the amount of your donation, your name, address, and phone number, the number, brand and expiration date of your credit card, sign it and send it to us either by fax (03-3560-8073) or by mail (PMC Bldg 2F, Higashi-Azabu 1-23-5, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044).

Make a one-off postal donation:
Please use the remittance form at your Post Office and fill in the required information as follow:
◎Postal Account Name：Specified Non-Profit Organization Medecins du Monde Japon
◎Postal Account Number：００１１０−８−１７２８３９
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● Types of Mission
In 2006, more than 300 missions took place in 100 different countries, in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and in the Middle East.

Emergency missions
An emergency mission is defined by the fact that it provides aid enabling the basic survival needs of distressed populations Example : Emergency care in Pakistan
Medecins du Monde brought relief to the victims of the earthquake in Pakistan. The MDM teams arrived on October 11th, 2005, thus, three days after the catastrophe. The presence of fifteen volunteers who have handled surgical and primary care was extended until Spring 2006.

Crisis missions
A crisis is defined as a rupture that has strong medical consequences for the populations concerned. There are four types of crisis: sanitary (aids, epidemics), implementation of politics that generate violence (Afghanistan, Iraq), economic considerations that do not enable populations, who require so, to receive adequate medical treatment (tritherapy) and environmental (nuclear).
Example : Taking in charge HIV/AIDS affected patients in Cambodia A center, permitting free access to anti-retroviral medication as well as to psychological support was created in Phnom-Penh.
Approximately 1,800 individuals receive regular treatment.

Development missions
A development mission is one that brings long term solutions to those who suffer health issues that are caused by poverty.
Example : monitoring the health of working children in Bolivia This is a mission operated by a local team. Its goal is to improve the health of the children who work in mines, to limit child labor, as well as to reduce the risk of teenage depression.

“Operation Sourire” (Smile Operation)
Today, many countries do not have the human and material resources necessary to help patients who present physical sequels of war, sickness or malnutrition.
Operation Sourire enables those who are handicapped by their physical and aesthetic appearance to lead a normal life. This is possible through punctual reconstructive and orthopedic surgery missions. Basic training in these fields is also provided to local care providers, surgeons, doctors, and local nurses. This enables Medecins du Monde’s actions to be perpetrated locally in the long term.
Each year, approximately thirty short term missions (two weeks) of this type are provided in fourteen different countries: Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Benin, Togo, Cambodia, Madagascar, Chad, Mongolia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Guinea, Laos.
During each mission, between thirty to eighty patients undergo surgery.
In fifteen years, more than 4,000 surgeries have been performed.
Operation Sourire is composed of close to one hundred volunteers (surgeons, anesthetists and nurses) from Japan, France and Germany who participate regularly in these missions, therefore ensuring the medical follow-up of their patients.
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● Contact
PMC Bldg 4F, 1-23-5 Higashi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044
Metro Station: Akabanebashi (Oedo Line)
Telephone : 03-3585-6436
Fax : 03-3560-8073
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● Other MDM websites
Belgium: http://www.medecinsdumonde.be
Canada: http://www.medecinsdumonde.ca/
France: http://www.medecinsdumonde.org
Germany: http://www.aerztederwelt.org/
Greece: http://www.mdmgreece.gr/
Netherlands: http://www.doktersvandewereld.org/
Portugal: http://www.medicosdomundo.pt/
Spain: http://www.medicosdelmundo.org
Sweden: http://www.lakareivarlden.org/
Switzerland: http://www.medecinsdumonde.ch/
UK: http://www.medecinsdumonde.org.uk
USA: http://www.doctorsoftheworld.com