Facts And Figures: How we spend donations

MSF is an international medical humanitarian organisation that is also private and not for profit.Your support allows MSF to provide medical aid whenever and wherever it is needed.

With your help, we react to emergencies as soon as they occur and give high quality care to those who need it most.

Eighty-seven percent 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 2010, MSF-UK spent 87 percent directly on Programme Expenses (includes operations and other humanitarian activities), 3 percent on Administration and Management and 9 percent on Fundraising.

Income		2010		2009
	in million £	in percentage	in million £	in percentage
Private	25.52	96.01%	19.8	98.96%
Public institutional	1.02	3.83%	0.18	0.90%
Other	0.04	0.16%	0.03	0.13%
	26.58	100.00%	20.01	100.00%

How the money is spent		2010		2009
	in million £	in percentage	in million £	in percentage
Operations	22.78	87.35%	16.53	84.46%
Fundraising	2.39	9.15%	2.10	10.73%
Administration	0.91	3.50%	0.94	4.82%
	26.08	100.00%	19.58	100.00%


Surplus (Deficit) for the year	0.50		0.43

Examples of what your money 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."

£9 per month could provide life-saving anti-retroviral treatment for someone living with HIV/AIDS "We think that about 15 percent of people in the Kibera slum are living with HIV/AIDS. These drugs give people hope for their future."

£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."

£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."

Where did the money go?
*Programme expenses by nature**		*Programme expenses by continent**
National staff	31%	Africa	69%
International staff	25%	Asia	20%
Medical and nutrition	19%	Americas	6%
Transport, Freight and storage	12%	Europe	2%
Operational running expenses	5%	Oceania	1%
Logistics and sanitation	6%	Unallocated	2%
Training and local support	1%	*Project and coordination team expenses in the countries
Consultants and field support	1%	*Project and coordination team expenses in the countries

Facts And Figures: How we spend donations

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