About 300 voluntary doctors are sent to Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Sierra Leone and the Philippines each year to help those who cannot help themselves.
The idea was to create a charity organisation with German doctors, who work without remuneration in the third world countries.
In the medical health centers as well as ambulances and rolling clinics of their long-term projects, German Doctors e.V.
In order to ensure the continuity, the deployment of doctors is organised with overlapping transition phases.
In 2015, the expenditures of the 8 medical projects were all in all €4.7 million – including the expenses relating to the deployment of doctors from Germany, more than 300 nurses, translators, drivers and additional programs.
[3] A board of trustees acts as a control instance with the medical doctor and actor Maria Furtwängler as president.
German Doctors is member of or supports the following associations: Bündnis Entwicklung hilft, Initiative Transparente Zivilgesellschaft, VENRO, Aktionsbündnis gegen AIDS.