Médecins Sans Frontiéres Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical organization. It offers medical and health-care assistance to populations with poor access to health services, or to victims of natural or man-made disasters, without discrimination, irrespective of race, creed or political affiliation. MSF seeks to preserve life and alleviate suffering, respecting human dignity, through medical assistance and the protection of the physical and psychological integrity of the population. MSF works directly contact with the civilian population on request, through the presence of its teams in the communities. Approximately 15,000 doctors, nurses, epidemiologists, laboratory technicians, logistics experts and managers from around the world every year on projects and interventions in more than 84 countries. Since its creation in 1971, MSF has focused its attention on emergency situations, including floods, earthquakes, famines, armed conflicts, displacements of populations, refugee camps, epidemics and marginalized populations. About 75 per cent of MSF's financial resources come from public donations. Over two million people around the world make regular donations to MSF, which its independence in terms of activities and criteria. MSF is also carrying out an extensive international campaign to put pressure on the pharmaceutical industry for essential medicines to be improved and made more accessible to all victims. In recognition of its humanitarian work, Médecins Sans Frontières was awarded the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize.   Award-Winning NGO´s Popular Women´s Organization of Barrancabermeja (OFP) The OFP was founded in 1972 as the result of the work of a group of women in the Señor de los Milagros parish church, Barrancabermeja. It later expanded to cover the rest of the city's parishes. In 1988 it became a women's independent, secular organization, with its own grass roots and its own proposals, carried out in a number of Women's Homes. In 1995 the OFP started to operate on a regional scale, working in the municipalities of San Pablo and Cantagallo (Bolivar), Yondó (Antioquia), Puerto Wilches (Santander).OFP works today with displaced and non-displaced women -it has 1,200 female members in the region, and displaced men, teenagers, and young children. It covers a population of approximately 123,000 women. OFP's programs include the following: technical and cooperative training for women, dining rooms for deprived people, a young people's movement, education, an information center, health care programs (prevention programs and medical care), legal aid, dining rooms for children, production groups, food sustainability programs, and a women's network against war and for peace. It works for a decent life for deprived women. In November 2000 the OFP formed a solidarity alliance with Women's Pacific Route, which, with Flora Brovina from Kososvo, Asma Jahingir e Hina Jilana, from Pakistan, and Veneranda Nzambazariya, from Rwanda, among others, received this year's Millennium Peace Price for Women awarded by UNIFEM and International Alert.