MALI MEDICAL RELIEF FUND
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Mission Statement
Our Mission Is Simple: to serve needy families in Mali who find themselves in medical crisis. Since our founding in 2008, we have helped hundreds of patients access life saving medical care by paying for medicines, medical tests, and surgeries. What's more, we are a zero overhead organization, meaning every dollar you donate goes directly to patient care. All administrative costs are born by our board of directors. All of our program administrators are volunteers!
About This Cause
How we got our start: Our project began with a simple email home in the spring of 2008. When two patients died because of delayed antibiotic treatment, MMRF founder and 4th year medical student Breanna Barger knew she had to do more to help. She wrote home of these stories and asked her friends and family to send what they could. Just $5-10 could help treat a child’s pneumonia or meningitis. The out-pouring of support was more than expected, in just one week the fund had blossomed into thousands of dollars of aid. The project’s design was simple. Medical students, residents, and doctors were informed that the fund was available. After morning patient visits (rounds) the doctors and students would identify those patients with needs. They brought prescriptions and orders for tests. The physicians and medical students went directly and paid for them. The best part of the morning was delivering the medicines to the families, and seeing what genuine relief and gratitude they had for this life saving support. Today we continue our life saving work by partnering with Malian physicians on the ground who identify and serve needy patients. With their assistance, we provide medical care within the existing health care structure at no cost to patients. No dollars are lost to expensive travel for foreign doctors. More than just service individual patients, our assistance also is a mode of investment in the local health care system. Patients benefit, as does the health care system as a whole. We provide complete financial transparency, so that you can see exactly how your dollars are spent, patient by patient.