Doctors Giving Back
Cause Area
- Children & Youth
- Health & Medicine
- Hunger
- International
- Women
Location
7172 REGIONAL STDUBLIN, CA 94568 United StatesWebsite:
http://doctorsgivingback.orgOrganization Information
Mission Statement
Doctors Giving Back is a medical relief/humanitarian aid organization that provides medical care, medicines, medical supplies, vaccines, clothes, shoes, and clean water programs for destitute people living in the poorest parts of Africa. Heslthcare i s almost non-existent in these areas and people suffer and die from preventable and treatable diseases such as Malaria, Typhoid, Cholera, Tuberculosis, Intestinal Parasites and AIDS. 85% of these diseases are caused by the dirty water they drink...the only available water to drink.
Description
Projects and programs include:
Provide sustainable water filtration systems in remote villages
Take medical teams to remote villages twice a year to provide medical care, vaccines and medications to people who may have never seen a doctor in their entire life.
Children's Feeding Program: feed orphaned and homeless children with a meal a day feeding program. Send kids to school who would have never had a chance to go to school
DGB Constructi teams assist in projects to remodel a remote hospital that serves one million people with only 3 doctored and no supplies. Provide hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of medical supplies to hospital and medical clinic in need of supplies.