
Review of “One Mile for a Smile” on May 11, 2024
This year was our 6th time as a charity partner for the integration run of the running festival in the city of Mozart. Here is a short review of the “One Mile for a Smile” run 2024.

This year was our 6th time as a charity partner for the integration run of the running festival in the city of Mozart. Here is a short review of the “One Mile for a Smile” run 2024.

Together with Dr. Christian Gross and Dr. Christian Gruber from the Executive Board, we went on a project trip to Bangladesh and India.

We are delighted to be able to present our latest project, the “Elisabeth Bernecker Community and Health Center Jamalpur”, to you today!

Our Mobile Clinic started operations in February 2024. The background to this is that many people in Dhaka are so poor that they cannot afford transportation to our medical project.

The big vacation is over – all our schools in India, Bangladesh and Kenya reopened their doors in January 2024.

A lot has happened in 2023! A big thank you to all of you – because it’s your support that makes our work possible! Find out more here in our review of 2023.

The El Nino weather phenomenon caused devastation in Kenya in November and December 2023 – and claimed over 120 lives.


In February 2023, the time had come again – a project trip to Bangladesh and India!

Heroes are not born, but become heroes thanks to their deeds in life.

Help in difficult situations. The drought in Kenya is currently affecting many people.

Thanks to the pupils of Scheffau Primary School, donations were collected for the Eroret Preparatory School in Kenya.

On Tuesday, April 19, 2022, the co-founder and deputy chairman of Austrian Doctors, Dr. Christian Gruber, gave a lecture at the Lions Club Wals.


BON VOYAGE for Austrian Doctors – on 11.03.2022 at Szene Salzburg.

The Global Day of Giving will take place on November 30, 2021.


The Austrian Doctors Board of Directors was newly elected in April.



Brother Ephrem Tirkey, passed away on January 22, 2021 in Kolkata

We would like to thank Volksbank Salzburg for their generous donation!



From the slums of Bangladesh to remote mountain villages in the Philippines

Austrian Doctors was awarded the Austrian Donation Seal of Approval on December 13, 2019.

His path from elite NS student to doctor for the poor in East Asia. Personal insights into an exciting, unusual life.

“People, people, people…chaos on the streets” – Report by Rosemarie Pichler

We are proud of our founder, Dr. Werner Waldmann, for this prestigious award!


…one building, two uses, multiple benefits

At the beginning of April 2022, we were on a project trip to Bangladesh. After more than two years, we were finally able to visit our projects again and get a good overview of how things are going.

Entrepreneur Lisa Frost and gynecologist Pia Nigisch strengthen the association’s management team

Over 60 charity runners were at the start for Austrian Doctors


That was our lecture evening in Hallein! You were not there? Click here for the movie

“You learn to improvise very quickly there. Somehow everything always works out.”

Seven floors for training: for more future prospects for young people in Dhaka

The artist donates the profits from his painting to our work. A Christmas present!

On Tuesday, April 19, 2022, the co-founder and deputy chairman of Austrian Doctors, Dr. Christian Gruber, gave a lecture at the Lions Club Wals.

Teachers at Eroret Preparatory School are trained in sexual health and family planning

He should have studied mechanical engineering, but Dr. Heinz Grienberger has now been a paediatrician for 40 years.

What the Grödiger Bauerntheater and the Lions Club Anif have to do with us and how a confirmation group from Golling/Scheffau is involved:

Thanks to the pupils of Scheffau Primary School, donations were collected for the Eroret Preparatory School in Kenya.

witnessing the strength of the people’s will to survive & their overwhelming hospitality”

We had emergency doctors from every federal state last year. You can read where they came from and where they went here!

Board member and co-founder of Austrian Doctors Christian Gruber reports on his 7th mission in Dhaka

Julia Bösch on her assignment as a gynecologist in Sierra Leone. In an interview with the Vorarlberger Nachrichten.

For Dr. Hartwig Maurer, it was already clear last year that his first assignment would not be his last.