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- EIN 94-1518657
- (646) 820-7360
- Po Box 750918 Forest Hills NY 11375-0918 USA
- www.dooleyintermed.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Eye Diseases, Blindness & Vision Impairments, Health, Hospitals, International, International Development, Rehabilitative Care
Mission: The organization's mission is to provide medical assistance to refugees, children, and villagers in the less privileged parts of the world with emphasis on self-help projects in the areas of preventive medicine, public health, and health worker training.
Programs: Nepal fund-this fund was established in 1963, when the organization initiated a medical assistance program in nepal which focused on medical care, health worker training, medical surveys and material support to hospitals and rural clinics. One of the organizations major initiatives has been the support of homeless and abandoned children. This led to the organization helping develop and construct a new orphanage eco-farm in the sankhu valley which the organization has continued to support of these "at-risk" children throughout 2017 providing ongoing funding for the orphanage operations and supplies. Continued on schedule o. During 2017 the organization provided significant additional funds for several major improvements at the orphanage eco-home including; construction of a guest cottage for volunteers and visiting medical personnel, purchase of three water buffaloes to provide an ongoing source of nutritious, protein-rich milk for the children, and expansion of the existing buffalo shed. The organization continued its "gift of sight" program bringing needed care to refugees and villagers in nepal's most remote areas. In december of 2017 the organization initiated a large-scale outreach eye camp in machhakhola village in the upper gorkha region, near the epicenter of the devastating nepal earthquake.
nicaragua fund, established in 1999 to provide medical equipment and full-time physician and nurse to a clinic in waspam, which is located on the coco river. It is a community-based maternal-child health program benefiting mostly women and children of the miskito and mayagna people.
india-the ngoenga school-the organization is proud to continue funding physical therapy equipment for the ngoenga school for children with special needs, dehradun india. The school has 50 children with a range of disabilities including autism, dyslexia, epilepsy, polio, down syndrome and cerebral palsy. This is the only school in existence for disabled tibetan and himalayan children. This program was initiated in 2015 when the organization funded the purchase of much-needed physical therapy equipment and special orthopedic shoes for these disabled children.
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