Join us on Dec. 10 at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul for a benefit concert organized by I Medici members, raising awareness and funds for the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Sudan Crisis Fund.
On April 15, intense fighting broke out across Sudan with a wave of gunfire, shelling and airstrikes. Many people’s access to essential health services continues to be cut off at a time when they need it most. MSF’s healthcare projects and hospitals – in some places the only medical facilities still open – continue to treat influxes of critical patients. This includes those wounded in the violence, pregnant women in labour and chronically ill people with nowhere else to go.
Millions are trapped in this unexpected conflict or have been forced to flee their homes, resulting in a crisis within a crisis. In the first three and a half months alone, over 200,000 individuals registered crossing into neighbouring South Sudan, over 90 per cent of them Sudanese, arriving exhausted and extremely vulnerable. MSF teams saw a concerning rise in measles and malnutrition cases in the organization’s facilities in South Sudan, particularly amongst returnees fleeing conflict from Sudan and host communities. The influx of returnees and growing cases of measles among displaced population and host communities is another burden on a healthcare system that is already inadequate to meet people’s needs.
Support MSF’s crisis response
Montreal: I Medici di McGill Orchestra in support of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the McGill African Students Society, is offering a holiday concert to raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis unfolding around Sudan, and to support MSF’s crisis response. The concert features piano soloist, Kyoko Hashimoto playing Rachmaninoff’s piano concert no. 2. A representative of MSF will give a Ted-like Talk about their experience working for MSF’s asissting in medical projects around the world. The concert will be held at 4 pm, Sunday, 10th December, at the Church of St. Andrew & St. Paul, Montreal.