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Causes: International, International Relief
Mission: Charitable, medical and humanitarian relief to the disproportionately poor, internationally, including orphans.
Programs: International medical relief: included 3medical/dental/surgical/vaccination clinics performed for impoverished persons and orphans in gansu province of china,and in the yanji-tumen region of china. Over 4,000 patients served, including 100 major surgeries. More than 100 volunteers participated in this program. Goals:temporary medical/dental/surgical clinics, and coordination of volunteer health care providers, and help to educate local health care providers in destination country.
health and life skills education: expenses for delivery of life skill education programs for orphans in russia, including life skills seminars for about 300 orphans in three regions who recently left orphanages. Also included education of indigent persons, mostly children, in xian china.
humanitarian relief : this includes a donation to another exempt organization for humanitarian relief following the 2011 earthquake in japan, and a donation to a university for an aid team to help with construction of underground water tanks in drought regions in africa.