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Our Vision
A future in which all citizens of the developing world have quality,
community-based healthcare
Our Philosophy
It's simple but powerful: locally generated and locally managed
healthcare programs are the most successful. When local people
are involved in developing solutions to their healthcare needs,
they have a vested interest in seeing those programs continue
and thrive.
We believe that enabling
people in the developing world to provide their own healthcare
is a far better alternative than depending on foreign aid organizations,
or centrally planned governments programs that often have track
records of failure and corruption.
In a world that is a paradoxical mixture of great abundance and
great need, challenges to providing sustainable healthcare in
the developing world are many:
- Local healthcare programs in the developing world suffer
from chronic shortages of everything, including healthcare workers,
education, medication, and supplies.
- Talented and dedicated healthcare providers along with lay
people in developing countries struggle to provide quality care
in environments often choked in political graft and corruption.
- Industrialized countries needlessly discard billions of dollars
of useful medicines, supplies, and equipment every year that
can be used to save lives in the developing world now.
- People living in industrialized countries, who want to help
in the developing world, have no
idea how to do this. Joining
an organization like Doctors Without Borders to serve abroad
is not an option for most people, and just writing a check doesn't
offer the intrinsic rewards of direct involvement.
Our
Mission
Our purpose at HealtheClinic is to provide an interchange,
serving to unite people from the industrial world, and those in
less developed countries, in partnership to create and support
community-based healthcare programs in the developing world.
HealtheClinic programs concentrate on providing successful models
of community-based healthcare available to all via the Internet.
Our focus is to provide support in planning, organizing, fundraising,
building, and managing community-based clinics.
Our goal is to overcome the information gap separating people
in developing countries from growing their own sustainable community-based
healthcare. We believe that the Internet will continue to provide
the best opportunity in the 21st to close that divide.
HealtheClinic will provide a forum for partnership. We seek to
create active partnerships between neighborhood groups, villages,
schools, and cooperatives in the developing world which are seeking
to provide their own community-based healthcare, and those dedicated
individuals, foundations, and private industries in the industrialized
world, who are interested in enabling
them in the process. Working together, sustainable, locally managed
healthcare is possible anywhere in the world.
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