¿Por qué Médicos Sin Fronteras?

Médicos Sin Fronteras me hizo esta pregunta durante el proceso de ingreso, y me pidieron que escriba una carta motivacional para adjuntar junto con mi CV. No había demasiada consigna, norma, o límite, entonces les conté mi historia en esta carta.

Hoy quiero empezar por compartir esta carta, quiero contar el cómo llegue hasta acá porque después quiero compartir a donde me llevo. Quiero compartir esta experiencia, este camino, y no solo como una realización personal, sino para que sigamos acercando realidades que parecen tan lejos. Para poder generar un cambio, primero necesitamos saber que se necesita un cambio. Lo que quiero es dar a conocer, que estemos más cerca, y rompamos mas barreras cuando se trata de ayudar.

E inevitablemente me voy a estar conociendo a mi también.. hace unos días nada mas alguien me dijo » hay que entregarse enteramente a los demás, despojarse realmente de uno mismo, para conocernos a nosotros mismos». Bienvenidos entonces.

Sepan disculpar, la carta esta en inglés, el mejor que me salió 🙂

To whom it may concern,

The first time I heard about Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) I was 16 years old and still in high school. I remember I was reading a student´s magazine article about Pilar Bauza in Somalia, and immediately knew that I wanted to be part of the organization. After graduating in nursing I started as a staff nurse in the Emergency Department at “Hospital Universitario Austral”. I like the dynamism of the ER, to know how to prioritize critical patients, to organize work as fast and accurate as possible, and how to contain and support someone who comes looking for help to the hospital. As a natural leader I started facing challenges from the very first year. I started as a mentor of the new nurses who where joining the hospital, later I became a “Referent Nurse” of staff in my shift, and finally a coordinator assistant of the ER in the running year, doing statistics, developing educational programs and representing staff nurses in service meetings. During 2015 I started to dedicate my career almost exclusively to pediatrics.

However my daily job at the Hospital wasn’t and still is not enough. During these years when I couldn´t apply to MSF because of the lack of experience, with a colleague and friend we decided to start a project in Argentina with our few skills and knowledge. We wanted to give an opportunity of self-development to vulnerable communities in our country. So we started coordinating a multidisciplinary group of young and recent graduated students, and aimed to improve the quality of life in a rural community in our country. In the health section of the project, we worked with the community nurses giving theoretical and practical training about different everyday topics and common emergencies that can be prevented or pretreated in the health station they attend.
The project started growing step by step and reached goals we didn’t even thought of.

But now after 3 years as we completed a cycle in this community, I still feel like something is missing. There is a world outside the hospital, and I don’t want to be someone who just reads the news about what people are going through, I want to be part of this organization that is doing something about it. I don´t really care if I am working in my country or in a vulnerable and remote community somewhere else, as long as I am still working for someone who needs it. I would like to meet, as Candelaria Lanusse named her book, “El Corazon del Mundo” with an organization who goes and reaches those people in need no matter where they are or how unreachable they might seem.
Through all these years, ever since I started my first day in nursing, I felt how this moment was getting closer. Every lesson became a tool and a step closer to be ready to live this experience. Today I feel that moment is here, and there is still a lot to learn and live, but I’m willing to do so.
Sincerely,
Piñeiro Pearson Sofia
Licenciada en Enfermería
24-8-2016