Doctors Without Borders: Inside Out

Summary:

Michael Goldfarb takes listeners to the Niger River delta following a team of medical workers as they set up a humanitarian relief project

Website:

http://www.insideout.org/documentaries/doctors/

Additional Credits and Funding:

Technical Director/Studio Producer, George Hicks
Editor/Executive Producer Anna Bensted

Tones:

Engaging, Informational, Thoughtful

Language:

English

Description:

Around the world, where governments don't function, humanitarian organizations feed the hungry and heal the sick. The 1999 Nobel Peace Prize-winning Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, is one such group. Their medical staff serve victims of war and poverty, working under dangerous conditions. It would be easy to romanticize their work, but the reality can be much different. WBUR's Inside Out Documentaries Senior Correspondent Michael Goldfarb takes us into the Niger River delta, as a team from MSF returns to the region where the organization was founded thirty years ago.

With Goldfarb we travel by boat, through mangrove swamps and dense forest, observing the MSF team as they treat malaria victims and inoculate children against the disease. Travelling further into Nigeria we attend a ceremony in which traditional healing practices such as animal sacrifice provide a vivid contrast to the Western science that MSF offers. Finally we listen to the doctors and nurses as they unwind and take stock of the personal and professional implications of their work.

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"Doctors Without Borders: Inside Out" has recently been updated and is timely and relevant now.

Michael Goldfarb's book, "Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace," published by Carroll & Graf, is out now:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786715154/002-7566354-8354437?v=glance

For more information about this and other Inside Out Documentaries, please contact Namita Raina, National Program Administrator, WBUR Boston. (617) 353-8160
nraina@bu.edu

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