The Christmas season is a special opportunity to share joy and hope. While many of us enjoy these days with family, there are people who have to face loneliness and worry.
For many people around the world, everyday life is characterized by challenges: lack of access to education, medical care, community or even the most basic things such as clean drinking water and sufficient food.
With your support, we can change lives together:
Every donation makes a difference – big or small! Help spread hope and joy. Together we can achieve more.
9 Euro
One month of schooling including hot lunch for a child in Bangladesh
65 Euro
Scholarship at the University of Dhaka for one month for a child
360 Euro
Monthly salary of a doctor in the medical project in Bangladesh (approx. 600 patients)
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 sick people who have no access to medical care. We build wells for clean drinking water and finance schools, meals and scholarships.
Yes, our experience is that many people are not indifferent to the future of us 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!
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.
Are you still looking for the perfect gift? Does the recipient already have everything and no further wishes? Do you want to give something meaningful and help other people? Then a gift donation is just the thing for you! Donate online now and receive a personalized gift certificate straight away.
The photo book "Endstation Dhaka" by photographer Joachim Bergauer shows the living situation 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.
For many people, education is the best way to build a better future. This is why Austrian Doctors has been supporting schools in the slum areas of Dhaka for 30 years.
30 years ago, Brother Ephrem had the dream of creating a slum school for the poorest children in the poor sister city of Calcutta, Howrah. After 30 years, the demand is very high.
The kindergarten in Awasi, Kenya, is a daycare center for the youngest children in the area. The children can be carefree and safe here, are allowed to play and are supervised by trained teachers.
Our new medical project opened on the first floor of our training center in Dhaka in February 2023. It treats up to 300 patients a day and has its own pharmacy.
Together with our partner organization Kamina Social Welfare Society, we provide medical care for those who no one else can help. In addition to general health checks, eye and dental check-ups are also offered in these camps.
A lack of access to clean drinking water has an impact on health, educational opportunities and the economic development of entire settlement areas. We are therefore building a drinking water supply system in the small town of Busa.
Austrian Doctors is an internationally active Austrian aid organization that was founded in Salzburg in 2008. Our focus is on medical aid and education, and we are committed to helping people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, social status, religion, nationality or political opinion.
Our target group are people in “chronic crisis areas” who have no access to medical care and education. Our medical focus is on medicine for the poor. In addition to direct medical support, our work also includes measures to improve the local infrastructure, such as the construction of wells for clean drinking water. We also support children and adults through school and training projects to enable them to lead a self-determined life in their home countries. We work closely with local partners to ensure long-term and sustainable development.
We are active in areas where poverty is omnipresent, education is not accessible despite compulsory schooling and medical care is a luxury.
Together with our volunteer doctors, we have been able to treat tens of thousands of patients over the years. Almost 2,500 children from the poorest backgrounds currently attend our schools, where they not only receive an education but also a hot meal. This has already made a positive difference to the lives of many children.
For us, every single fate justifies our full commitment. We believe that together we can make the world a fairer place.
Thank you very much for your support along the way!
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 this seal of approval is an annual, strict audit by an auditor with regard to the use of funds, low administrative costs, etc. This gives you as a donor the assurance that your donation will be handled responsibly by Austrian Doctors. Furthermore, donations to Austrian Doctors are tax-deductible in Austria.
"Every single child who receives an education and a nutritious lunch in our schools justifies the entire work of Austrian Doctors. Behind every child there is a family, a destiny, wishes, hopes and dreams. I am happy to contribute through my work to making a better future possible for thousands and thousands of children through education!"
Severin Schwaiger, Managing Director Austrian Doctors
