About our resources
We are an emergency medical organisation working in over 70 countries around the world. We provide emergency medical care in countries affected by war, natural disasters or outbreaks of disease.
Working with teachers, we have developed a series of multimedia teaching and learning materials.
These resources have been carefully matched to awarding body specifications and have been informed by a detailed review of Examiners' Reports.
You can also get your school involved in fundraising whilst learning about MSF's vital work
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If you are looking for general English language material introducing MSF please consider this welcome video and its corresponding transcript.
This video looks at the ways we travel to reach our patients and has a corresponding transcript.
We also offer an 'Introducing MSF' presentation and a selection of printable posters and leaflets.
50 years of MSF: 1971-2021
To celebrate MSF's 50th anniversary, we have developed an interactive resource to take secondary students through dramatic moments in MSF's history. It contains key information, videos and exercises for use in the classroom or for individual study, as well as an answer booklet to the questions posed. There are exercises for students covering a number of disciplines, including Biology, Citizenship, Geography, History and PSHE. Use the viewer below or download the pdf.
This resource focuses on a project called Ink with Hope, in which artists from across the world created illustrations to raise awareness of humanitarian and medical issues.
These resources draw on the work of MSF to engage students with up-to-date humanitarian challenges and there are follow-up activities.
The resources draw on the work of MSF, to engage students with up to date humanitarian challenges, and have been guided by clearly established learning objectives for KS3 and GCSE English. They include games, real-life stories, images and videos to create a buzz in the classroom.
We currently offer four teaching and learning resources for GCSE and A Level Geography, and one learning resource for Key Stage 3 History.
We currently offer resources for various levels of French, Spanish and German. This mix of real-life stories, videos and images will engage students and encourage discussion of wider social issues.
These resources draw on the work of MSF to engage students with up-to-date humanitarian challenges within the context of maths.
This resource is suitable for KS3 maths, and focuses on percentages, fractions, ratios, and approximation, all working with large numbers. It covers the refugee crisis, introduces some key vocabulary and general information about MSF’s work in this area, and celebrates World Refugee Day.
These resources draw on the work of MSF to engage students with up-to-date humanitarian challenges within the context of film and media studies.
We offer a variety of teaching and learning resources for KS3, GCSE and A Level Biology, looking at infectious diseases, vaccines and pandemics.
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has developed teaching and learning resources for primary school-age children in both KS1 and KS2.
This resource teaches students what NGOs are and what they do, and then explores MSF’s work as an international NGO and how we operate in this capacity. It can be used for a variety of different exam boards and subjects, for example GCSE citizenship, GCSE sociology, GCSE learning for life and work, and A-Level geography.
The resource has been created by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) using our authentic materials. Teachers are encouraged to review and select content and activities to best match their students’ needs.
Maternal health
This resource explores factors which affect physical and mental wellbeing during and after pregnancy, and covers tier 2 and 3 vocabulary on the topics of pregnancy and birth. Students are introduced to general information and key facts about maternal mortality, and how to prevent it, focusing on MSF’s work in low-income countries, and they complete comprehension tasks based on a video and a text.
The resource has been created by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) using our authentic materials. Teachers are encouraged to review and select content and activities to best match their students’ needs.
Fundraising as a school
There are lots of ways that your school can get involved with MSF by learning about our work and raising vital funds.
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