Orbis International: Eye Doctors Wing it to Volunteer in Developing Countries
Look, up in the sky, it’s an eye hospital on a DC-10 airplane! Its mission: to fly to poor parts of the world where eye care is desperately needed.
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Amazon Promise: Sustainable Health for Peru
Patty Webster is not a medical professional. But one day, while working as a tour guide in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, she found herself using a traveler’s sewing kit to close a wound on a boy from a local village…
Remote Area Medical: Making Global House Calls
Motivated by his experiences, Stan Brock, known from his work on the original Wild Kingdom show, came up with the concept of an all-volunteer healthcare program that would provide free services to people in need in remote parts of the world. In 1985, RAM was born, with a mission to provide free medical, dental, vision, and veterinary care to underserved people living in isolated areas within the United States and around the world.
Danielle Butin: Following Her Signposts to Improving Global Healthcare
In February, duffel bags filled with supplies went with a surgical mission to New Delhi, and sutures were sent to Liberia to support Physicians for Peace in their efforts at cleft palate repair. On March 13, the first 40-foot container of unused medical supplies left for Haiti to support the work of Partners in Health.
Caring for AIDS Orphans: Dr. Jane Aronson and the WWO
One of the most tragic aspects of the global HIV epidemic affects those left behind. These are the orphans of parents who died from AIDS, or children abandoned because their parents were too sick to care for them.
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