German Doctors for Developing Countries

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.