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Armenia Healthcare Project, Shinuhayr, Syunik Marz, Armenia Accessibility to free, quality health services for children and mothers in rural Armenia is extremely limited. It is estimated that 42.9% of the country still live below the poverty line, which has...
Haiti Haiti Earthquake Relief Projects In the aftermath of the January 12th earthquake, Real Medicine is moving forward with a comprehensive long-term strategy for sustainable health-services development in Haiti to help rebuild its...
India HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Program, Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, India HIV/AIDS in Jhabua and Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh The HIV/AIDS program was started 4 years ago and is now providing HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention, counseling, testing, and treatment services to...
India Malnutrition Eradication Program, Madhya Pradesh, India RMF's Childhood Malnutrition Treatment and Prevention Initiative boasts the largest field presence of any NGO working in malnutrition in the region, a result of strong partnerships with...
India Bhil Academy, Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, India Bhil Academy, Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, India In 2006, one of RMF’s partner NGOs in India ‘BHILS’ opened Bhil Academy, a residential school for poor tribal children in rural Madhya Pradesh. The medium of teaching is English,...
India Boarding School for Tribal Girl Students, Dattigaon, Dhar District, Madhya Pradesh, India In December, RMF's Team India recorded the inauguration of a boarding school for 150 to 200 girls in Dattigaon, a tribal village in Dhar District in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The school...
India Healthcare and Education Programs for Children in Madhya Pradesh It is largely unknown that India, a vast country of a billion plus, has its own "native" or tribal communities which have inhabited the subcontinent for tens of thousands of years. One of...
India HIV/AIDS Adolescent Awareness Program, Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh India has about 5.7 million HIV/AIDS cases, outnumbering all other countries. This number is sometimes projected to reach 25 million by the year 2010. The epidemic is now reaching the rural...
India Integrated Child Health Program in 122 villages, Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh, India This program will involve the "Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness" (IMNCI) strategy of the World Health Organization and Unicef, which has already been adapted...
India School of Excellence for Tribal Children, Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh The School of Excellence is located in Alirajpur in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is run by Salesians of Don Bosco. The education in this school (6th to 12th grade) will allow its students...
India The Healing Tree Project, Madhya Pradesh, India India - The Healing Tree Project The Neem tree is India's wonder tree as it plays an important part in healing and religious ceremonies throughout the country. The Bhils use Neem leaves for...
Indonesia "Koperasi DAMAR Jateng" (KDJ) - DAMAR Cooperative for Central Java Savings and Loans Cooperative In November 2009, the DAMAR-KOMPIP cooperative was founded to build on the success of the NEF model by supplementing the services currently provided. Acting as a...
Indonesia Community Savings Project, Mlese Village, Klaten City, Central Java The earthquake of May 27, 2006 is the worst disaster in Indonesia since the December 26, 2004, magnitude-9.1 earthquake that triggered a tsunami, killing at least 131,029 people in Indonesia alone...
Indonesia Earthquake (May 2006) Relief in Birit Village, Wedi District, Central Java One of the Real Medicine Foundation’s sponsored Neighborhood Endowment Fund (NEF) villages is Birit Lor. Founded on July 15th 2008, the aim of the NEF is to stimulate economic recovery in the...
Indonesia Neighborhood Endowment Fund (NEF) in Central Java; community-owned and operated microcredit units What is the Neighborhood Endowment Fund (NEF) initiative and what are our plans moving forward? This is the fourth operating year of RMF and KOMPIP’s joint NEF program. Out of 198 original...
Kenya Drought Relief Project, Turkana, Kenya The September 7th NY Times article by Jeffrey Gettleman, which highlighted the life threatening impact of the drought in Northern Kenya, called to action Real Medicine Foundation to coordinate a...
Kenya Healthcare Project, Lwala, Kenya Lwala is a village of approximately 1,500 people near Lake Victoria in western Kenya. Within an hour’s walk, approximately 3,000 additional people live in nearby villages accessible by dirt...
Kenya The Omari Project, Kenya Since the mid 1980’s, heroin has been available in the towns along the Kenyan coast. The impact of heroin and other drug use has had dramatic consequences for the local communities in the...
Mexico RMF Supports the Family of Marcelo Acevedo Look at my Strengths, not at my Weaknesses: Real Medicine Foundation Supports the Family of Marcelo Acevedo by Carly Panchura, Director of Special Projects and David Werner, HealthWrights (...
Mozambique Mobile Clinic Project Real Medicine’s Mobile Clinic is a new model of health care provision for our organization, conceptualized to reach remote and rural communities with no prior access to health care. The...
Mozambique HIV-AIDS Prevention and Care Program, Xai Xai, Gaza Province, Mozambique Harvard School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Mozambique Ministry of Health, the Real Medicine Foundation, and the African Millennium Foundation, proposes a pilot 18-month program to...
Mozambique Land Mine Victims Treatment Program According to the Landmine Survivors database, while there seems to be a number of rehabilitation centers available in Mozambique, it appears that many are underutilized due in part to a lack of...
Myanmar Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Nargis Disaster Relief From the afternoon of Friday May 2nd until Saturday May 3rd 2008, Tropical Cyclone Nargis slammed along the coast of Myanmar (Burma) devastating large parts of the low-lying delta region of the...
Nigeria Healthcare Project, Gure, Baruteen, Kwara State Nigeria has the 4th lowest survival rate of children under five out of 191 countries, a child mortality rate of 140 of 1000, and a maternal mortality rate accounting for 10% of the global burden of...
Pakistan Healthcare Project, Union Council Talhatta, Balakot Tehsil, District Mansehra, PakistanIn October of 2005 a massive earthquake struck Northern Pakistan, killing more than 80,000 people and causing devastation on an unprecedented scale. Many in the remote Himalayan valleys of this...
Pakistan 2010 Pakistan Emergency Flood Relief: Charsadda, KPK Region, Pakistan During the last week of July, 2010 floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly Northwest Frontier Province) claimed the lives of over 2,000 people and have affected over 3 million people, leaving...
Pakistan Flood Victims Healthcare Outreach Program, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan The freak monsoon of 2008 wrecked havoc across Pakistan. The North West Frontier Province and its adjoining tribal areas had the most casualties where flash floods killed 200 people overnight,...
Pakistan Healthcare Outreach for Internally Displaced Persons, Swat Valley, NWFP, Pakistan Imagine an ordinary day in your life. Food is warm on the table, the children are out playing and you’ve send your other half or your teenage son to get bread from the bakery. Suddenly the...
Pakistan Spinal Cord Injury Project for Pakistan Earthquake Rehabilitation (SCIPPER), Balakot Balakot Rehab Centre was one of the focal points initially planned by Pakistan Institute of Prosthetic & Orthotic Sciences (PIPOS) to provide orthotic and physiotherapy services to this area...
Perú Policlínico Peruano Americano On August 15, 2007 a magnitude-8 earthquake struck just off the coast of central Peru, with more than 500 killed, 3,000 injured and approximately 58,000 homes destroyed. After initially helping...
Sri Lanka Children's Clinic, Mawella Camp, Sri Lanka It is beautiful to see that today, more than one year after we established it, our clinic keeps blossoming and serving the families in the area that have been severely affected by the tsunami. Dr....
Sri Lanka Children’s Growth Hormone Project - Madumekala In January 2005, Madumekala Udayawanthi was an 11-year-old girl with the height of a 3-year-old (100cm = 39.37 inches) when she was first introduced to us in February 2005 in Sri Lanka. At the age...
Sri Lanka Children’s Growth Hormone Project - Mohamed Long-term Medication for Mohamed Farook Fazeer Ahamed Naigala Hena, Yonakapura, Dickwella, Sri Lanka January 2007 RMF is providing the treatment with Human Growth Hormone for this child....
Sri Lanka Children’s Growth Hormone Project - Sachini Long-term Medication for Sachini Sachini’s Dream Come True One such child that Real Medicine now sponsors, is Sachini. Sachini is actually a young woman of seventeen with all of the...
Sri Lanka Children’s Growth Hormone Project, Ruhuna Medical College, Galle, Sri Lanka In 2005 shortly after the tsunami, Dr. Martina Fuchs, met Madumekala, an adolescent girl suffering from panhypopituitarism. At age 11, Madu was the height of a three year old. In an unsupported...
Sri Lanka Children’s Surgical Care - Anjali On April 7, 2007, Anjali Mendis has undergone a successful Total Correction of Tetralogy of Fallot at Sri Jayawardenepura General Hospital in Nugegoda, Sri Lanka. Performing cardiothoracic surgeon...
Sri Lanka Children’s Surgical Care - Dinithi Children's Surgical Care Cardiac Catheter for Dinithi Uththara We met Dinithi Uththara and her parents at the clinic in the Mawella camp. Dinithi is a 14-months-old girl who was born with a...
Sri Lanka Children’s Surgical Care - Ibu Ibu Sami is a young woman who survived the Indonesian earthquake of May 2006, but had her leg badly injured. She and her family had lost everything in the disaster and she did not have the funds to...
Sri Lanka Children’s Surgical Care - Sanali 15-months-old D.V. Sanali Yehansi had a large atrial septal defect, with a large left to right shunt and moderate pulmonary hypertension. FYI: Atrial septal defects are a group of rare heart...
Sri Lanka Children’s Surgical Care - Thirushi Children's Surgical Care Cochlear Implant for Thirushi Praveena Jayasuriya Thirushi Praveena Jayasuriya is a 7-year-old girl who needs a cochlear implant in order to not lose her hearing....
Sri Lanka Long-term Medical Support for Children, Tangalle, Sri Lanka - Tharindu Some of the challenges faced by these children and their families include the prohibitive costs associated with treatment and the stigma of their stunted growth. Professor Sujeewa, who has worked...
Sri Lanka Minhath Montessori Pre-school, Dickwella, Sri Lanka The Minhath Montessori Pre-school is the first ever pre-school for the children of the Tamil/Muslim minority community in Dickwella, Sri Lanka, a region hit hard by the tsunami. The new building...
Sri Lanka Model Village, Sri Lanka Our vision is to rebuild good, stable, and environmentally friendly houses and/or small villages in three (3) specifically focused areas to be distributed to the really needy people (e.g., there...
Sri Lanka Orphanage Rating System, Sri Lanka Seeing the poverty and sad conditions of the overwhelming majority of Sri Lanka's orphanages, we envisioned that there might be a possibility to work on elevating the situation of all...
Sri Lanka Palathuduwa Preschool Support, Sri LankaReal Medicine moved funding from the Tangalle Children's Relay Preschool to this new location starting in February of 2010, in the village of Palathuduwa,  just 2 kilometers inland from the...
Sri Lanka Pallemalala Vidyalaya School, Hambantota District, Sri Lanka The Janadirya National Women Development Foundation had made us aware of the following two schools in the Hambantota district in Southern Sri Lanka. We met the principal and teachers of these two...
Sri Lanka Pediatrician for the Tangalle/Mawella area, Sri Lanka Pediatrician for the Tangalle/Mawella area, Sri Lanka The children's clinic we built in February/March 2005 was desperately needed, even before the tsunami. There is an extreme shortage of...
Sri Lanka Peripheral Mother-Child Unit, Thalalla, Matara District, Sri Lanka Visiting the refugee camps which were established following the tsunami, we were regularly confronted with the insufficient medical supply at the camps as well as at the hospitals. The few...
Sri Lanka Physical Therapy Enhancement Training Now in its fourth year this program continues to take on a life of its own. Our intention was to implement two trainings for therapists at Navajeevana and the surrounding communities, but the...
Sri Lanka Powerloom Factory Camp, Tangalle, Sri Lanka This camp has not been fortunate to be taken under the care of any large NGO. It is one of the 'missed' camps. Each of the 29 families here receives only 375 rupees a week from the Sri...
Sri Lanka Primary Care Clinic, Yayawatta, I.S.P. Tsunami Village, Seenimodara, Tangalle Sri Lanka marks the birthplace of Real Medicine Foundation, the place where the first promise was made and the concept of “Friends Helping Friends Helping Friends” was born. Five years...
Sri Lanka Psychiatrist for the Tangalle/Mawella area, Sri Lanka Countless Sri Lankans have lost loved ones and life as they knew it in the Tsunami, and there are still innumerable people who are suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, and the emotional...
Sri Lanka Support for Sri Lankan Youth post-Tsunami - Carpentry Tools for Rohana Rohana is a deaf young man whose line of work is carpentry. Since he lost all of his equipment in the tsunami, he is seeking help to buy a set of carpentry tools. The whole set that would help him...
Sri Lanka Support for Sri Lankan Youth post-Tsunami - Garment Course for Dimuthu The Real Medicine Foundation is sponsoring this young woman's education. The factory is only 10km away from her house. She is very happy with her job and will continue with them. The starting...
Sri Lanka Support for Sri Lankan Youth post-Tsunami - Nimasha and Family After learning about the orphans, the homeless and the unemployed people who were greatly affected by the tsunami, 8-year-old Jade Brenner-Katz knew that she needed to do her part. "I'm...
Sri Lanka Support for Sri Lanka’s National Cancer Institute, Maharagama, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, a low-income country of nearly 20 million people, is typical of many areas of the developing world. Modest increases in life expectancy have led to a subsequent rise in the number of...
Sri Lanka Tangalle Children Relay, Day Care Center, Montessori Pre-School and Hostel, Tangalle Since 2005, Tangalle Children’s Relay Preschool, situated just outside of Tangalle’s city center continues to serve tsunami affected families and the rural poor. Originally established...
Sri Lanka Tangalle Hospital Rehabilitation Project, Tangalle, Sri Lanka On December 26, 2004, a major earthquake off the west coast of Northern Sumatra measuring 9.0 on the Richterscale triggered a massive tsunami. According to official estimates, Sri Lanka suffered...
Sudan Healthcare Sector Capacity Building - College of Nursing and Midwifery, Southern Sudan Southern Sudan’s maternal mortality remains the fifth highest in the world, at 1,700 deaths per 100,000. High levels of maternal mortality are linked to poor access to quality reproductive...
Turks and Caicos Islands Hurricane Ike Relief Project On September 6 and 7, 2008, Hurricane Ike a Category 4 system with sustained winds of 135 mph (215km/hr) impacted the Turks and Caicos. Declared a disaster area by their government, the Turks and...
Uganda Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement Project When the Kenyan refugees arrived at the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement in 2008, there was very little support in terms of school fees for their children and there was no provision for a nursery...
Uganda Mama Kevina Comprehensive Secondary School Project, Tororo, UgandaRMF’s acupuncture outreach and yoga programs at the Mama Kevina School in Tororo, Uganda, continues to serve those in the community in need of on-going support for post-traumatic stress related...
Uganda Panyandoli Healthcare Project The Panyandoli Health Center, located at the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement in Bweyale, Uganda, provides healthcare services to over 30,000 in the region including 16,000 refugees, comprised of...
United States Hurricane Katrina Relief Projects The Real Medicine Foundation's Psycho-Trauma Teams completed the first phase of this pilot project in November, 2005, using mobile quick-response teams for the psychological support and...
United States Outreach Programs at Downey Regional Medical Center's Family Care Clinic Overview Downey Regional Medical Center (DWMC) and Amrit Davaa World Health Corporation have partnered to create a primary, preventative and urgent care family clinic in Downey, CA. to serve the...
United States Outreach Programs at Florence Western Medical Center The Real Medicine Foundation clinic located at the Florence Western Medical Center is focused on increasing health care access and health education to the South Los Angeles community. The clinic...
United States Outreach Programs at Nuestra Clinica In July of 2008, Carol Daugherty and Greg Jahangiri opened the Nuestra Clinica (“Our Clinic”) in Boyle Heights. From its inception, the clinic has been built on the principal of...
United States Teacher Training on Issues of Psychological Trauma in Children We are currently applying our global disaster expertise to a very local tragedy: The psychological trauma experienced daily by vast numbers of children living in poverty and homelessness, right...
United States Youth Teams - Children Helping Children Learn more about our Youth Team members here.