ESC: MEAL Officer with Médicos del Mundo in the Sahrawi refugee camps (Algeria)

Doctors of the World Spain, part of the International Network of Doctors of the World, is an independent association that pursues the fundamental right to health and the enjoyment of a dignified life for all people.

Our objectives are:
• To provide health support to populations that are victims of human crises caused by war or natural disasters, and to those living in poverty in the areas with the lowest human development on the planet.
• To care for the unprotected people in our social environment. In addition to intervening to help the population, we denounce human rights violations, especially obstacles to
accessing healthcare.

Doctors of the World Spain is committed to contributing to universalizing the values ​​of humanitarian medicine. It understands access to healthcare as a right for all people, regardless of their place of birth, race, social status, gender, or religion.

We are an association, a group of people established according to our bylaws as
a "non-profit organization for humanitarian action, development cooperation, and social inclusion, independent of any political, religious, media, financial, or other group, under Article 22 of the Constitution," and governed by the Organic Law that governs the right of
association.

We are volunteers, diverse in knowledge and backgrounds, with the shared vision of building a more just world, without barriers to the full exercise of the right to health, as a fundamental right of all people, with complete independence in choosing what and
how we work, and with the conviction of influencing political and legislative decisions that seek better protection of the health of people and the community in which they live. We are governed by the principles of the humanitarian movement.

We are part of an international group of associations with the same mission, vision, and values: the International Network of Doctors of the World. Each of them maintains the diversity needed to operate in its own context.

CARE AND REPORTING

Doctors of the World works in the field of health with populations experiencing poverty and social exclusion and with victims of human crises. It cares for all individuals whose human rights have been violated, carries out awareness-raising actions as a means of social change, and denounces the causes of injustice.