wmf USA
world medical fund USA
Our Mission: To work with the local community to develop cost-effective ‘on the ground’ solutions to the problems facing the world’s most vulnerable children - delivered in a practical way, sensitive to local cultures and with minimal administration costs.
world medical fund USA
Our Mission: To work with the local community to develop cost-effective ‘on the ground’ solutions to the problems facing the world’s most vulnerable children - delivered in a practical way, sensitive to local cultures and with minimal administration costs.
World Medical Fund USA
611 S. Newport Ave
Newport
WA 99156
Email: info@wmf-usa.org
Volunteer opportunities for medical students and professionals.
We can offer placements working on our programs in Malawi for periods as short as two weeks.
Click here for details:
We keep our admin costs as low as possible (3%) to ensure your donation really makes a difference
We are a registered non-profit with 501(c)(3) status.
EIN No 20-3519246
611 S. Newport Ave
Newport
WA 99156
Email: info@wmf-usa.org
Volunteer opportunities for medical students and professionals.
We can offer placements working on our programs in Malawi for periods as short as two weeks.
Click here for details:
We keep our admin costs as low as possible (3%) to ensure your donation really makes a difference
We are a registered non-profit with 501(c)(3) status.
EIN No 20-3519246
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Michael Burt's personal statement:
Why did I found a charity? Well, it has been a long journey, it began just before dawn in October 1979, at Nairobi's international airport. It was there that I set foot on the continent and saw the African sun rise over the horizon, for the very first time. My affection for this magical, mysterious, cruel, beautiful, often frustrating and always challenging world has never diminished.
Since then I have been back over fifty times, visiting and working in many of its diverse nations.
Africa has given me so much; I have enjoyed the most generous hospitality from the world's poorest people in the simplest of village huts and the splendour of seeing big game in their natural environment. I have also, all too often seen the sadness, the devastation that the HIV/AIDS pandemic has wrecked, children dying from starvation or illness.
I have been fairly fortunate in life and felt I had some small talents and could perhaps put something back into the world, so in the early 1990's I began using my annual vacation to travel out to Africa as a volunteer. I worked with several large charities on an ad hoc basis and looked at a number of programs. It came as a shock to discover that little was actually being achieved, despite more and more money being poured in. Conditions for the most vulnerable were actually worsening. I simply felt I could do better than this.
So, in 1997 I decided to give up my work in the Health Service and create a new charity with a simple, three point philosophy:
1. To deliver real programs where the need is greatest.
2. With quantifiable results, and
3. Minimal administration costs.
Strategy was:
In the developed world:
Operate with the smallest possible team, all working from their own home (there is no reason for non-profits to pay rentals for offices). Encourage people with appropriate skills from the commercial/corporate world to come on board as volunteers.
In the area of operation:
Liaise closely with the local community; they must be involved at every stage of the design of the programs, from the definition of the most urgent need to its implementation, into which they will make a high volunteer input. Invite independent expert assessment and criticism of the programs.
Our philosophy and methodology is now proven and a great success. Ian Kerr (the founder of ActionAID) came out to Malawi and assessed our work, this was the final paragragh of his report "I have visited and assessed over fifty programs in the third world over the last ten years; I have found the work of WMF to be the finest I have seen".
I am delighted we have now set up an operation in the USA and look to the American people to support us in our vital work.
Yours
Michael Burt; 13/3/2006
Before founding this organisation, Michael first worked for the Hirst Research Establishment (on the planned NATO Fighter radar system), was then seconded to Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL for elementary particle research. He was then invited to join the team at the Royal London Hospital Department of Medical Physics and played a small part in the development of the single needle access procedure for haemodialysis that is standard on all haemodialysis machines today.
Why did I found a charity? Well, it has been a long journey, it began just before dawn in October 1979, at Nairobi's international airport. It was there that I set foot on the continent and saw the African sun rise over the horizon, for the very first time. My affection for this magical, mysterious, cruel, beautiful, often frustrating and always challenging world has never diminished.
Since then I have been back over fifty times, visiting and working in many of its diverse nations.
Africa has given me so much; I have enjoyed the most generous hospitality from the world's poorest people in the simplest of village huts and the splendour of seeing big game in their natural environment. I have also, all too often seen the sadness, the devastation that the HIV/AIDS pandemic has wrecked, children dying from starvation or illness.
I have been fairly fortunate in life and felt I had some small talents and could perhaps put something back into the world, so in the early 1990's I began using my annual vacation to travel out to Africa as a volunteer. I worked with several large charities on an ad hoc basis and looked at a number of programs. It came as a shock to discover that little was actually being achieved, despite more and more money being poured in. Conditions for the most vulnerable were actually worsening. I simply felt I could do better than this.
So, in 1997 I decided to give up my work in the Health Service and create a new charity with a simple, three point philosophy:
1. To deliver real programs where the need is greatest.
2. With quantifiable results, and
3. Minimal administration costs.
Strategy was:
In the developed world:
Operate with the smallest possible team, all working from their own home (there is no reason for non-profits to pay rentals for offices). Encourage people with appropriate skills from the commercial/corporate world to come on board as volunteers.
In the area of operation:
Liaise closely with the local community; they must be involved at every stage of the design of the programs, from the definition of the most urgent need to its implementation, into which they will make a high volunteer input. Invite independent expert assessment and criticism of the programs.
Our philosophy and methodology is now proven and a great success. Ian Kerr (the founder of ActionAID) came out to Malawi and assessed our work, this was the final paragragh of his report "I have visited and assessed over fifty programs in the third world over the last ten years; I have found the work of WMF to be the finest I have seen".
I am delighted we have now set up an operation in the USA and look to the American people to support us in our vital work.
Yours
Michael Burt; 13/3/2006
Before founding this organisation, Michael first worked for the Hirst Research Establishment (on the planned NATO Fighter radar system), was then seconded to Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL for elementary particle research. He was then invited to join the team at the Royal London Hospital Department of Medical Physics and played a small part in the development of the single needle access procedure for haemodialysis that is standard on all haemodialysis machines today.