Causes: Health, Health Care, Health Support, Public & Societal Benefit, Surgical Specialties
Mission: Mission Statement"IMAHelps organizes medical humanitarian missions that provide some of the world's most underserved people with everything from general medical and dental care to life-changing surgeries, prosthetics and other specialized services that reflect the expertise of our volunteers".
Results: IMAHelps, located in Rancho Mirage, CA is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization providing basic health and hygiene education, medical diagnoses, prescriptions, prostheses & life-changing surgeries to some of the poorest people of Central and South America and Asia annually since 2000.When we arrive in the target country with our team of approximately 120 medical and dental practitioners we are greeted by patients lined up by the hundreds, often encircling the hospitals where our volunteers are based. Our patients travel by foot, by bus and on the backs of pickups and flatbed trucks to see our volunteers for a chance to receive medical care they could never afford. We typically treat between 7,000 and 12,000 patients on our 10-day medical missions to Central and South America. IMAHelps delivers a far higher return on investment (ROI) than most non-profit medical humanitarian organizations. The reason is simple: IMAHelps has no paid staff and our volunteers pay for their own flights, food and part of their lodging while donating their time and medical expertise. Medical missions include volunteers from virtually every medical specialty, IMAHelps delivers an extremely high return on investment (ROI) of more than $100 for every dollar we receive in donations.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Our team of 120 saw 8,582 Patients (which includes 180 major and minor surgeries) in Luque, Paraguay
Geographic areas served: South and Central America
Programs: Orthopedics, Dental, Prosthesis, Plastic Surgery, Vascular, and Cardiology, Gynecology, Pediatrics, General Surgery, Consults and Teaching.
Mission: Mission Statement"IMAHelps organizes medical humanitarian missions that provide some of the world's most underserved people with everything from general medical and dental care to life-changing surgeries, prosthetics and other specialized services that reflect the expertise of our volunteers".
Results: IMAHelps, located in Rancho Mirage, CA is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization providing basic health and hygiene education, medical diagnoses, prescriptions, prostheses & life-changing surgeries to some of the poorest people of Central and South America and Asia annually since 2000.When we arrive in the target country with our team of approximately 120 medical and dental practitioners we are greeted by patients lined up by the hundreds, often encircling the hospitals where our volunteers are based. Our patients travel by foot, by bus and on the backs of pickups and flatbed trucks to see our volunteers for a chance to receive medical care they could never afford. We typically treat between 7,000 and 12,000 patients on our 10-day medical missions to Central and South America. IMAHelps delivers a far higher return on investment (ROI) than most non-profit medical humanitarian organizations. The reason is simple: IMAHelps has no paid staff and our volunteers pay for their own flights, food and part of their lodging while donating their time and medical expertise. Medical missions include volunteers from virtually every medical specialty, IMAHelps delivers an extremely high return on investment (ROI) of more than $100 for every dollar we receive in donations.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Our team of 120 saw 8,582 Patients (which includes 180 major and minor surgeries) in Luque, Paraguay
Geographic areas served: South and Central America
Programs: Orthopedics, Dental, Prosthesis, Plastic Surgery, Vascular, and Cardiology, Gynecology, Pediatrics, General Surgery, Consults and Teaching.
P.O. Box 2727, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
760-898-2786
Health
Rancho Mirage
