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More and more frequently, Humanitarian action is criticized for its escalation of funds, equipment and volunteers… If these reproaches are understandable, while facing an increasing over-mediatisation of crisis situations, they remain hard to hear when insecurity is growing, and when the working space of NGOs is reduced from year to year due to forbidden accesses, confusion in the nature of activities (military, humanitarian) and the reluctance of populations when confronted with numerous propositions made by « non identified » humanitarian actors. Today, our reality is made of anxiety generated by the dangers met by expatriate and local humanitarian workers in order to ensure the subsistence level to the populations who are victim of catastrophes, wars… But we nevertheless keep on working. To do this job enables us to act, to materialize our indignation when facing injustices, distress. We do not pretend to save the world, but to bring aid, support to families, villages, individuals. Throughout our actions, we perpetuate the idea that solidarity is more than just a political concept, that it can be achieved beyond any economical or ethnical barrier. That in the end, solidarity is inherent to the human being. That it is not necessary, but compulsory.