“We do not need more money” (2004)

The tsunami that sweeps the coastline of Southeast Asia, causing more than 200,000 deaths and thousands of missing people, mobilizes world society into helping the victims. MSF receives more than 110 million euros. However, it quickly begins to sense that, given it is an emergency organisation, it will not be able to spend all the money that donors have entrusted to it. The evaluations confirm this and MSF makes an announcement that will be controversial in the NGO sector: it will not raise more money for this catastrophe and will spend the surplus funds on other crises or return them to the donors if they prefer.