A photo exhibition of Medecins Sans Frontieres is taking place in Aoyama and I visited it yesterday.
The
Photos were about activities by MSF in Kenya, especially efforts toward
AIDS treatment. A German photographer, Mattias Steinbach took those
pictures and he explained us about the photos and the situation there.
It
was meaningful to visit it, it was a bit different from the activities I
want to do though. I want to involve in the activities to help poor
children in the world with going to school. But the activities of MSF
are involved in the life-or-death issues. Probably all children who
appeared in the photos can't go to school.
When I started to
think about doing humanitarian assistance, I thought I should have
become a doctor or other medical expert. What can I do when I go
somewhere to do humanitarian assistance? In the poor countries, the
disaster areas and conflict regions, medical experts are most necessary
people. But according to the information, many people who are not
medical experts are working even in MSF, such as administrators and
logisticians. Clinical psychotherapists are also working, it's a part of
medical experts though.
I thought that psycholotherapists are also
needed for helping poor children with going to school. I wonder if it's
difficult to be that. But to be the clinical psychotherapist, I have to
go on to graduate school... Things are not easy.
Some toddlers in
the photos are smiling, cherishing a doll, hugging their mothers...
those are not any different from other toddlers in blogs I often access
to. But real situations are much different.
No comments:
Post a Comment