I Was a Witness To Their Deaths

These children existed. Right now on the Mediterranean, more people are dying. And there’s no one to even bear witness.

September 2018: Courtney Bercan sits in a rubber boat that was used in an exhibition about the global refugee crisis. She volunteered as a guide for the Doctors Without Borders traveling exhibit, Forced From Home, to help inform Americans about why people around the world flee their homes and what happens to them as they travel in search of safety. Photo: Mandy White

In 2016, Courtney Bercan, a nurse from Vancouver, Canada, worked with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on a search-and-rescue boat in the Mediterranean, the Dignity I. In December 2018, MSF…