(top) Visitors imagine what its like to be a refugee during Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontiers' outdoor educational exhibit, 'A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City,' at Santa Monica Beach on Sunday, November 2, 2008. (above) Pediatrician Dr. Sachin Desai, explains that Refugees are allotted just 5 gallons of water a day for all their drinking, cooking and washing needs as compared to Americans who averages about 100gallons a day. The display was set up to educate Santa Monicans on what life is like for the worlds 42 million refugees: the 26 million people who have been uprooted by war in their homelands and the 16 million who have fled across borders and are forced to call a relief tent home. Guided by MSF aid workers, visitors are asked to imagine that they are among the millions of people fleeing violence and persecution in, for example, Somalia, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Sudan. The exhibit is made up of materials used by MSF in its emergency medical work around the world, including emergency refugee housing, a food distribution tent, water pump, health clinic, vaccination tent, therapeutic feeding center, and a cholera treatment center. Doctors Without Borders is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols. In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize.