Christmas is the time when small gestures make a big impact. Even a small contribution can change lives – whether through medical aid for people in need or educational projects that open up new opportunities for children and young people. With your donation you can help more than you might think.You can provide medication, medical care or school supplies and learning opportunities for the next generation. Every bit of support counts and helps make this Christmas a little brighter for everyone.
Merry Christmas!
With your generous donation to Austrian Doctors you enable sustainable support for people in the Global South who are unable to pay for visits to the doctor or school education. Your donation gives hope and helps to bring about a small Christmas miracle for those who need it most.
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The photo book 'Endstation Dhaka' by photographer Joachim Bergauer shows the living conditions in Dhaka and the Austrian Doctors' projects in an impressive way. The book is available for a donation. With this book you not only have the perfect Christmas present, but also help us to make our work better known.
Dear friends,
We are facing many global challenges. However, the state of our world is not an inevitable fate, but the result of human action. For thousands of years we have been shaped by an awareness of revenge, envy and ego instead of community. But there is also an alternative way of thinking that focuses on love, cooperation and responsibility.
Together with local doctors we look after ill people who have no access to medical care. We build wells for clean drinking water and finance schools, meals and scholarships.
Many people are not indifferent to the future of humans and our planet. They are responding to the many challenges, they are taking responsibility. They are contributing to a new common world. They bring to life what we celebrate every year at Christmas.
May the Christmas season be blessed!
Since 2019 we have also been awarded the seal of approval for donations. This is the highest seal of approval for fundraising associations in Austria. The basis for obtaining it is a strict annual audit with regard to the use of funds, low administrative costs, etc. This assures you as a donor that your donation will be handled responsibly by Austrian Doctors. Furthermore, donations to Austrian Doctors are tax-deductible in Austria.
Almost half of the world’s population are women. Women do live longer,but they spend fewer years in good health. Women are significantly more affected by socio-economic health factors, especially poverty than men. Austrian Doctors’ educational projects support girls and boys equally and thus make a difference for their professional careers, but they also provide education on disease prevention for girls and adolescent women.
Women’s health risks, health behavior and disease courses differ from those of men. Therefore, we should not only consider the need for well-trained midwives and gynecologists when we think of women’s health in the countries of the global South. We should also recognize the necessity of training healthcare personnel from other disciplines beyond gynecology, and that is also achieved through education.
As gynaecologist, as woman and as mother of a daughter, our school projects and scholarship programs are just as important to me as the medical projects and the workshops on family planning and sexual health at the Community Center in Awasi. Only more education for all children, regardless of gender, can bring long-term change. I am very pleased that our school projects in Kenya, India and Bangladesh contribute to the goal of improving women’s health.
Isabella Röhrich will be happy to help you.
