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AmeriCares Medical Mission to the Dominican Republic: One Doctor’s Story

AmeriCares Medical Mission to the Dominican Republic: One Doctor’s Story

Once a year I travel to the Dominican Republic with other doctors from Connecticut and students from a local university to provide medical care in rural communities.

Helping HIV and AIDS Patients in Cambodia

Helping HIV and AIDS Patients in Cambodia

Every day before sunrise, elderly men and women in wheelchairs and patients wearing surgical masks line up outside the hospital waiting for it to open.

Voices from the Field: Helping Mothers in Niger

Voices from the Field: Helping Mothers in Niger

Her name is Mariama. When I met her, she was a young woman in her twenties who had suffered for over 15 years from an injury she endured while delivering a baby.

Voices from the Field: A Mother’s Story

Voices from the Field: A Mother’s Story

AmeriCares honors the mothers of the world.

A mother attends to her child being treated at the AmeriCares-sponsored therapeutic feeding center in Malawi.

Malawi Field Report

We left New York on a chilly Thursday morning and finally arrived in Malawi on a sunny Saturday afternoon.