Wired International

I have observed WiRED's efforts over 20 + years to provide vital health information to people around the world. Most impressive perhaps is WiRED's module method of educating community members so that they can take control of the issues in their areas. Knowledge is power, and WiRED gives doctors and citizens the information necessary to promote good health, whether for new moms or ebola victims. WiRED really is helping to save the world!

I have followed WiRED International's work since its beginning 22 years ago. WiRED's health learning programs--which are offered free of charge--prepare people in some of the world's most underserved communities to meet critical health needs, always stressing prevention. I know of no other organization that spends 95% of its donations directly into its programs. That is remarkable, and I know of no other nonprofit that can boast that figure!

For 20 years, with maximum outcomes, WiRED has responded to health education needs across the globe, by providing rapid health education response to outbreaks like Ebola and Zika with specific online modules for rural and underserved communities and health professionals. To support health promotion WiRED medical experts have developed over 400 health education modules addressing Maternal Child Health, prevention and treatment of chronic diseases such as diabetes and infectious diseases. All information is based on WHO guidelines when available and over 100 are translated into 7 languages. WiRED works collaboratively with individuals, community organizations and Ministries of Health in Africa, Armenia, Nicaragua, the Peruvian Amazon Bosnia, India and Iraq. Most recently WiRED developed a community health worker certificate program to train local community members to provide prevention, education and treatment to their local communities.

WiRED International is a U.S.-based, non-profit, volunteer-driven organization that provides vital medical information to underserved communities in regions that are challenged by war, and poverty. I have known and was involved with WiRED International since 2003 and witnessed the phenomenal impact they had over the years on the communities they served. WiREd’s most recent program was expanded to go beyond providing critical health educations to the communities. WiRED’s team developed a comprehensive, evidence-based, training program for community health workers that follows the World Health Organization guidelines and allow ministries of health to adapt the program to local needs and conditions. Thus contributing to alleviating the health problems and health care professional shortages that we face worldwide. Thank you WiRED International.

I'm reflecting on my experience with WiRED that I met in Iraq back in 2004, right after the war. I'm an Iraqi physician who used to work with IOM and the Iraqi MOH. As a graduate from Baghdad University and a medical professional, I testify that what WiRED brought to the Iraqi medical community was extremly helpful and useful. I experienced first hand the electronic and updated medical information. In medical school we studied using an outdated medical books that was copies of the original books (so not only outdated but also hard to read because of the reprinting). WiRED established our first Medical Information Center in Baghdad, Basra and Erbil by donating the computers and all the current medical information. I was watching the flux of medical students and physicians alike attend the center in hunger to get the information that would help save a live.
THANK YOU WiRED for all you did.

I am a WiRED Board member...a founding member. We work like crazy, as volunteers, to provide health and medical education to those most in need. We have grown in leaps and bounds and have partnered with organizations that are like minded to serve the poorest, the most unfortunate, those without access to health care, information, clean water, electricity, etc. We now have over 300 health/medical education modules that we provide free of charge to those in need and to other NGO's serving those in need. The money we raise goes to our projects, not to salaries. We have effectively managed volunteers in all aspects of health/medical education to donate their talents in service to those who need them. We have done research on the efficacy of our programs and the results are excellent. You can read about our projects and research on our website www.wiredinternational.org or in various journals. Our other board members include Richard Carmona, former surgeon general; David Alberts, retired Director of the Arizona Cancer Center, Charlotte Feretti, Director, Edelman Institute at SFSU, and many others.

This group does amazing work on a shoestring budget. They bring life-saving medical information to war-torn and developing areas of the world. Using telecommunications they link doctors to doctors and offer consulting services. It's a group that does an enormous amount of good with limited resources.

I worked as a US contractor in Iraq for a number of years. Although Wired did attempt to establish a presence in Iraq, their claims (which remain on their website) of having any working sites there are greatly exaggerated. At best, they installed some outdated computer equipment that regularly crashed, and they provided no sustainability, leaving those of us who actually stayed in the country facing the anger of medical students and doctors in numerous locations. Furthermore, they attempted to use their connections with the Bush Administration to divert funds from primary care programs for Iraqi women and children to support complex and expensive telecommunications systems that they had promised to the Iraqi government and failed to deliver on. The USAID country director was able to stop them, but it resulted in a major hit on her career. Bottom line is well meaning, but misguided techie folks with no understanding of how to implement development projects in poor countries. Negative impact on other US NGOs is a big minus to any pluses they may bring. Minus two starts for that. Also, for a techie non-profit, you would think that they would update their website to reflect reality now and then. Self hype is another star loser.