>>About World Response ..>>Mission Statement
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INTRODUCTION
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Thank you for visiting the World Response web site.
World Response began in 1998 and although our programs have varied enormously in content over the years, the focus has remained constant, |
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The need is profound. Extraordinary though it may seem, there are millions and millions of people with no access to healthcare of any sort. The most basic medicines we take for granted are unimaginable luxuries for many.
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There are hospitals with no access to clean drinking water, antiseptic soaps or ointments, no anesthetics, no antibiotics or even the means to sterilise their surgical equipment, assuming they have any.
It is an inevitable consequence of the disparity between the wealth and resources we take for granted and the rest of the world; that the majority of people on the planet go without the most rudimentary care.
A response to this ongoing crisis lies at the heart of the World Response mission. On behalf of everyone working with World Response I would like to thank you for your interest and support.
Art Scheffer
President World Response
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“Scheer Memorial Hospital received its first medicine boxes from World Response in late 2000. These were sent to remote outreach clinic venues where village elders had repeatedly requested us to provide primary healthcare services. This encouraged a small foundation in the US (Berrien Springs, Michigan) to send a medical team comprised of a physician, nurse, lab tech and a driver to those villages. With Scheer providing an ambulance, medical and lab equipment, and the villages providing space to see patients, several villages who had previously only dreamed of having medical care provided within their remote setting now actually have it. World Response's continued support sustains not only efforts in these villages, but has also afforded our clinicians the ability to conduct a number of camps throughout Nepal.”
Roy K Kline--Director
Scheer Memorial Hospital, Banepa, Nepal
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