What draws people to travel for almost 24 hours in order to work 12-hour days without compensation? “It just grounds me”, said Jill Stoller, MD, a pediatrician from New Jersey and medical director for Our Chance International…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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