Rebel Without Borders

Name: Rebel Without Borders
Brand: ECW Press
SKU: 9781554902965
Price: 10.75 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-554-90296-5

Frontline Missions in Africa and the Gulf

de Marc Vachon (auteur), Stephanie Dickison (auteur), Christopher Heard (auteur), Marc Vachon with Fran?ois Bugingo, translated by Charles Phillips (auteur), François Bugingo (auteur), Jean-Christophe Rufin (préface)

Maison d'édition : ECW Press

septembre 2011

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Résumé

This is a true story.Marc Vachon was born in Montreal in 1963. He went from one foster home to another. He knows the injustices that the weak must suffer in any society. He knows the violence, the abuse, and the emptiness that life can offer in so-called developed countries.He dealt with it the only way possible: through drugs and crime. He turned into "a bad egg" as he puts it.Until the day when, escaping an unbearable situation at home, he came across Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Paris. Since he had some experience in construction, he was hired to supervise the logistics of a cholera camp in Niaminthutu, Malawi. From that point on, he drew on the survival instincts he picked up on the streets, delving into his work to forget the pain, never looking back. He made himself indispensable, quickly becoming the frontline logistician for MSF, moving mountains, commanding respect, afraid of nothing or no one, able to build shelters for tens of thousands of refugees in record time.Power struggles often occur in the humanitarian sector, and Marc Vachon could never really accept them. They always seem to go hand-in-hand with injustice. This has inspired him to deliver a biting and fascinating review of humanitarian aid, or at least the way it is in the present "news-entertainment" era.

Auteur

Jean-Christophe Rufin (Préface de)

Médecin, engagé dans l’action humanitaire, Jean-Christophe Rufin a occupé plusieurs postes de responsabilités à l’étranger. Il est l’auteur d’essais consacrés aux questions internationales et de romans. L’Abyssin, Asmara et les causes perdues, Globalia, La Salamandre, Un léopard sur le garrot et Le grand Cœur entre autres, ne cessent d’explorer la question de la rencontre des civilisations et du rapport entre monde développé et pays du Sud. Traduite dans le monde entier, son œuvre a reçu de nombreux prix, dont le prix Goncourt 2001 pour Rouge Brésil. Il a été élu à l'Académie française en 2008.

Auteur(s) : Marc Vachon, Stephanie Dickison, Christopher Heard, Marc Vachon with Fran?ois Bugingo, translated by Charles Phillips, François Bugingo