IMC's Mission: From Relief to Self-Reliance
International Medical Corps (IMC) is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.
Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide.
By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
This July a team will be going on 'An Adventure of a Lifetime that Saves Lives' and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the roof of Africa!
Each step the team takes will help save lives and build healthy futures for women and children in the Congo and Uganda. These two countries have been torn apart by civil wars, of which women and children are the greatest victims. In Uganda, a 21-year civil war has left an estimated 1.6 million displaced, many of whom have been victims of rape and gender-based violence. During the conflict, the Lord’s Resistance Army forced approximately 66,000 Ugandan children to become soldiers or sex slaves.
In the Congo, war has taken the lives of approximately 5.4 million people, more than any conflict since World War II, and left another 3 million homeless. The Congo wars have also produced some of the most horrific cases gender-based violence in the world with more than 56,000 women reporting being raped since 2004 alone. This estimate, reported by the UN, is likely to be much higher as many rape survivors choose not to come forward.
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Your generous support enables IMC to provide life-saving services and build self-reliance by training local healthcare professionals to care for their own communities-from the beginning of a crisis through the entire process of recovery. In more than 25 countries and regions around the world, IMC provides services including: primary and secondary health care; the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases such as malaria, cholera, dysentery, and HIV/AIDS; supplemental food for malnourished children; clean water and hygiene education; mental health and psychosocial care.
IMC has received tax-exempt status as a publicly supported organization as provided by the Internal Revenue Code under section 501(c) (3) and the California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 23701 (d). IMC's tax identification number is 95-3949646. Your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. A copy of IMC’s latest financial report can be obtained at http://www.imcworldwide.org/section/about/financials.
