Doctors Giving Back
Cause Area
- Children & Youth
- Health & Medicine
- Hunger
- International
- Women
Location
7172 REGIONAL STDUBLIN, CA 94568 United States
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Organization 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.
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(September 29, 2015)
No response back from this org despite trying several times
(August 31, 2015)
I've tried several times to volunteer with this organization but no one has ever contacted me back.
(May 18, 2014)
I think it's a good way to help out the community and get to know people. It's a good experience of providing medical care for patients.