RIA Novosti, Russia
April 21 2004

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS TO HELP HOMELESS CHILDREN IN RUSSIA

MOSCOW, April 21 (RIA Novosti) – The international medical
humanitarian organization Doctors without Borders has launched a
project aimed to help homeless children in Russia, the organization’s
doctor Orkhan Nasibov told a press conference on Wednesday.

According to him, about ten representatives of Doctors without
Borders work at Moscow’s railway stations. They invite children to a
leisure center, which opened at the Kazansky railway station this
week. Here children can wash themselves and their clothes and play
computer games.

The center can host twenty children a day.

“Children’s reeducation is not our purpose,” Mr. Nasibov said.

In his words, the international medical humanitarian organization
Doctors without Borders is involved in about ten projects in the CIS
countries, in particular, anti-TB programs in Uzbekistan and
Turkmenistan, anti-AIDS projects in Ukraine and humanitarian
assistance to Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.