TREASURER GERMANY

BIRGITTA FINK

Birgitta Fink has worked for Doctors for Madagascar as treasurer since its foundation. Born in Venezuela, Birgitta's life was shaped by her travels to distant countries. After studying business administration in Hamburg, the enthusiastic sailor first worked for a few months as a purser on a windjammer in the Mediterranean before spending two years in the USA on a Carl Duisberg scholarship. After working as an accounts executive for an international advertising agency in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Hanover, she moved to Leipzig with her family in 1993. Until 2019, she worked full-time for the refugee aid organisation Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe Leipzig and continues to volunteer for various Johanniter projects and for the association "Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Leipzig e.V.", which brings music to people who cannot go to concerts themselves. A trip to South Africa in 2011 and especially her trip to South Madagascar in summer 2019 have deeply impressed and touched her. The fight against need and poverty and the improvement of medical care in these countries is very close to her heart. It is important to her that help – quickly and directly - reaches the places where it is really needed. Birgitta Fink has two grown-up daughters, she lives with her husband in the countryside near Leipzig.