France, Nov. 26 -- In the spring of 2025, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) began working with Utopia 56, a French social organization, to conduct coastal patrols in the north of France and seek out those who need assistance.

Since then, the MSF team has met more than 1,800 migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers who were survivors of shipwrecks or failed attempts to cross the English Channel to reach England. More than 200 medical consultations have been carried out. Below, Palmyre Khul, a nurse, and Muneir Mustafa, an intercultural mediator, discuss this important work.

Palmyre: France and the United Kingdom signed an agreement this summer, called "One in, one out," which is supposed to "prevent dangerous crossings...