Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Humanitarian Crisis in South Kordofan and South Sudan: Discussion

3:30 pm

Ms Jane-Ann McKenna:

We differ slightly from Trócaire, in that we implement all of our own programmes. Although we have large operations in 65 countries, we employ more than 30,000 national staff across our projects. Although Médecins Sans Frontières is a Western organisation working in Africa and elsewhere, the percentage of expatriate and international staff engaging in our activities on the ground is small.