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Doctors Without Borders and Emanuele Giordana

Doctors Without Borders e Emanuele Giordana

We are used to seeing them flattened in the two-dimensionality of images, especially those on TV that scroll by quickly. The more attentive among us might find photographs in magazines and newspapers, and some even know the names and geographies involved. They are the dozens of conflicts and wars that still mark the world and those who live in it, breaking out even near the almost "quiet" Europe. It’s no longer just sub-Saharan Africa or Asia that are affected, but also the countries bordering the Mare Nostrum and even potential future members of the European community... For years, there have been those who have chosen to stay in the places where weapons speak, to provide help, care, and testimony. Among them is Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Often, in these war zones, the lives of doctors, nurses, logistical staff, and reporters intertwine as they try to tell the stories of what is happening. This gives a double significance to the meeting with Stefano Di Carlo, Head of Mission for Italy at the humanitarian organization, and journalist and writer Emanuele Giordana, an expert on the situation in Afghanistan.

Doctors Without Borders was founded in 1971 by a group of French doctors and journalists who, witnessing the violent and dramatic Nigerian civil war, decided to establish a non-governmental organization aimed at helping people in need while also denouncing the events they were witnessing. Today, it operates in more than 20 industrialized countries and engages in assistance activities in 66 nations, providing medical care to populations affected by conflicts, epidemics, natural disasters, or excluded from healthcare, without any form of discrimination.

Emanuele Giordana, journalist and writer, was one of the founders of the agency Lettera22 and the initiative Afgana, as well as the director of the monthly magazine Terra. He teaches writing at the School of Journalism of the Lelio Basso Foundation. Among his books are Afghanistan, Diary from Kabul and The Indonesian Bet. For over ten years, he hosted the program Radio3Mondo on Radio3.