Artists Without Borders and its offspring, Kids Without Borders, are devoted to providing humanitarian relief to the victims of war and ethnic strife. As such, they share obvious connections with Doctors Without Borders.
Instead of pills and poultices, however, the two organizations do their healing work with crayons, frogs and sometimes even Japanese clowns.
In a recent lecture at a Kyoto Women Artists' Association event in Kyoto, founder Hector Sierra expounded on his belief that art is no less important to refugees of war than food and water.