How we spend donations

Your support allows MSF to provide medical aid whenever and wherever it is needed. With your help, we can react to emergencies as soon as they occur and give high quality care to those who need it most.

80% of every pound you donate is spent on our programmes

We try our utmost to make sure that your donations are spent on saving lives rather than on administration and management costs. In 2009, MSF spent 80% directly on Programme Expenses (includes operations, temoinage and other humanitarian activities), 6% on Administration and Management and 14% on Fundraising.

Your donations allow us to:

• rehabilitate hospitals and clinics

• battle epidemics

• carry out vaccination campaigns

• perform emergency surgery

• run feeding centres for malnourished children

They enable us to:

• treat patients with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, sleeping sickness and HIV/AIDS

• provide medical and psychological care to marginalized groups such as street children

They make it possible for us to:

• construct wells

• provide clean drinking water

• supply the needy with shelter

(Source: 2008 MSF International Activity Report)

What your support provides

 £14 per month over the course of a year could provide two village midwife kits

"The sun is high in the sky. The woman in front of me is burning with fever. She is too weak to object or make a sound. Her eyes are closed and her mouth is halfway open." 

• Click here to read more from MSF nurse Raquel Ludvisken describing child birth in Darfur

 £15 per month could provide life-saving anti-retroviral treatment for someone living with HIV/AIDS

"We think that about 15% of people in the Kibera slum are living with HIV/AIDS. These drugs give people hope for their future."

• Click here to read more from Zaina Ahamed Jama's describing life for HIV positive people in Africa's biggest slum

 £17 per month over the course of a year could provide 300 rapid tests for malaria

"Dr Helmy asks the village chairman to spread the word that MSF is treating malaria here today. He walks to the edge of the mountain and bellows in three directions across the valley."

• Click here to read Lucy Clayton describing an MSF malaria project in rural Ethiopia

 £20 per month over the course of a year allows us to vaccinate 120 children against measles

"Figuring out how we can reach distant villages several days journey upstream while keeping vaccines cold in tropical heat has been a nightmare. There is nothing here but jungle and swamp, and the only form of transport is boat."

• Petrana Ford describes a measles vaccination campaign in West Papua

 £144 could provide one emergency surgical kit

"We treated many women and children who had been shot in the back. These were not stray bullets, or accidents. They had been shot at deliberately as they fled."

• Jean-Paul Dixmeras describes his work as a surgeon in Haiti

Programme expenses by nature

(Source: 2007 MSF International Activity Report)

(Source: 2007 MSF International Activity Report)