Merlin
United Kingdom
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In early 1993, three young friends - a doctor, a manager and a logistician - decided to create a specialist British charity to send medical teams into disaster zones. Dr Christopher Besse, Nicholas Mellor and Mark Dalton wanted to harness the energy and goodwill of doctors, nurses and other professionals, and enable them to work overseas to care for the sick, prevent disease and help develop local health services. To date, Merlin has worked in 39 countries and responded to some of the most serious humanitarian emergencies of recent history. These include the Rwandan genocide, Hurricane Mitch, the 2003 Iraq War, the tsunami, Darfur, and the Myanmar cyclone. We are one of the world’s leading medical aid agencies, with ambitions to expand our capacity for emergency response.
