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Trish Newport of Médecins Sans Frontières shares her journey and the influence of her grandmother on her humanitarian career.

Send us Fan Mail Trish Newport of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Switzerland is Inside Geneva’s first summer profile this year. “My grandma was a humanitarian she had worked in Malawi and I remember when I was about 10 years old she said to me, ‘When you grow up and you become a humanitarian, you should work for MSF because they really have strong values and ethics that you will appreciate,’” says Newport. Originally from Canada, she has worked all over the world, in the most challengin...

People in this episode

Guest: Trish Newport

Topics covered

• humanitarian work
• Médecins Sans Frontières
• personal stories
• values and ethics
• global challenges

Keywords

• humanitarian
• Médecins Sans Frontières
• Trish Newport
• Canada
• Malawi
• values
• ethics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Médecins Sans Frontières

Places: Canada, Malawi

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