Doctors without borders

Enriching project #20 431 of 31 000.

It is not only doctors and nurses that are needed in Doctors Without Borders’ initiatives around the world. Sweco has been collaborating with the organisation since 2009, which gives Sweco’s engineers the opportunity to assist Doctors Without Borders in its international humanitarian efforts.

“We give our employees a leave of absence if they are offered the chance to participate in one of Doctors Without Borders’ projects. We see it as a valuable source of competence development, both for us as a company and for the individual employees,” says Eva Nygren, President of Sweco Sweden.

“We are very pleased with the collaboration and that Sweco sees the value of sending its employees out into the field with us. We set great store by Sweco’s engineering expertise and experience in leading and developing complex projects,” says Katharina Ervanius from Doctors Without Borders.

Two employees from Sweco have already taken the chance

Ida Rennemark is currently stationed in Liberia where she is helping to rebuild a children’s hospital. Read more. 

More about the collaboration

This is the first time that Doctors Without Borders has proactively contacted a company that it is eager to enter into a deeper and more long-term partnership with. In addition to assisting Doctors Without Borders with personnel, Sweco will make a sizeable annual donation.

Doctors Without Borders recruits not only doctors and healthcare personnel, but around one third of those working in the field are administrators, architects engineers and economists.

Doctors Without Borders’ activities in disaster and war zones give field workers experience of far-reaching staff management responsibility in a multicultural context.