ABSTRACT
In 1971 a group of young doctors and journalists in France formed Medecins Sans Frontieres or Doctors without Borders, as the organization is known in English. At the global scale, this often means that some portion of the wealth found in the global north gets channeled across some invisible poverty line to places where need is more prevalent or where crises have hit. There are many other ways in which humanitarian action connects and bridges gaps. Many of them are hidden from view like a gully in a forest, covered by tangles of vines and trees, and can only be seen by digging down underneath the surface. Humanitarian action is about connecting spaces that are cognitive, as much as they are concrete. The services they provide must be appropriate, but also feel relevant to those they seek to help.
