Canadian Employee Relocation Council

The Canadian Employee Relocation Council (CERC) is a not-for-profit organization which represents all issues facing the relocation industry. It is quite fitting, given MSF mobilizes it's workforce, that MSF is the charity of choice for CERC. Help us make a difference in the world and assist those struggling just to survive. Whether the needs are due to poverty, political unrest, or a natural disaster, the needs are great. We can make a difference. We can help alleviate human suffering.

Sierra Leone is slowly returning to everyday life. Five years have passed since the end of the civil war, but life remains a struggle, especially to children under the age of five. Child mortality is still one of the highest in the world, and the main reason is the country's endemic malaria.

MSF teams working with the Ministry of Health are treating patients suffering from meningitis and are vaccinating in the Dosso, Maradi and Zinder regions. So far a total of 2,135,000 people have been vaccinated by MSF and the Ministry of Health in these three affected southern regions. Meningitis is a contagious disease that kills half of infected people if they are not treated. Since the beginning of this year an area of sub-Saharan Africa known as the meningitis belt has been heavily affected by an epidemic of meningitis. In Nigeria, Niger, and Chad alone, medical teams of MSF are vaccinating a total population of about eight million people. This is the biggest vaccination MSF has ever carried out. Each day, MSF teams are also travelling to urban and remote health centres in order to collect data, review and treat patients and to donate drugs to the health facilities.

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