Your Contributions to DGH Go Far

DGH funds go far in the projects that receive your contributions of United States dollars. The economic environment of the nations where DGH works is severely and chronically poor. A major characteristic of this is huge international debt and local unemployment. Health workers of all types are typically in great need by the communities, but paradoxically they have difficulty finding employment. Nurses, physicians, educators, lab technicians, dentists, and the many necessary roles for various aides and counselors are not employed where they are most needed. Financial support for these workers is simply not present or organized where the majority of the population lives in sometimes desperate circumstances.

No books, 1 teacher, 35 students: Primary 1 class, Uganda Martyrs Primary School in Mbarara.
Your support through DGH will produce an amazing effect. A health worker can be put to work with as little as USD$100 per month. This assistance may allow the local health center to organize continuing local support. A "free clinic" may eventually sustain itself by developing management and outreach skills in the community and collecting very small fees. Visits to health workers by patients may "add up" to the continuing self-sufficiency of a clinic, even when the average charge for a visit is only thirty cents and based on ability to pay. Similarly, many medicines are routinely used that are very cheap compared to their counterpart in the US. Some sites have made significant use of effective, low-cost herbal treatments.

There are many other amazing ways we use your contributions to DGH. For example, our chicken co-op project in La Conquista, Nicaragua, a rural community without electricity or running water, provides a renewable high protein source (eggs) for several families at a start-up cost of just USD$200. This project can be expanded at an even lower cost, as each co-op will share some of its chickens with new coops. Our garden project in Ometepe, Nicaragua, which teaches children the basics of organic agriculture and feeds those most in need, makes the USD$500 start-up cost a long-term bargain.

There are many comparisons of practices in the so-called "third world" that recall frugality long lost in the US. Gloves usually considered disposable in the US are carefully washed and reused many times. Unfortunately, there is also much sorely lacking in proper health, nutrition and educational support. Please help improve these conditions. Your tax-deductible contribution will allow DGH to accept the invitation of additional communities around the world to work alongside them in the fulfillment of our mission:



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