Circle of supporters
Circle of supporters
Circle of supporters
The German Doctors has had a support group since April 7, 2011. Together with this group of engaged business people we want to be able to help even more people in developing countries in the future by expanding our medical projects and also to further develop the organization itself. The enterprises contribute money, materials, knowledge and personnel. Enterprises of different sizes and sectors, from international businesses to small, high-tech enterprises are involved.
Dr. Ausbüttel & Co. GmbH
Dr. Ausbüttel
Dr. Ausbüttel supports the German Doctors financially and with specialist know-how about professional wound care and with various marketing projects.
- Voluntary doctors have a useful tool kit available with the “Ambasador’s Folder” developed by Dr. Ausbüttel, which enables them to perform effective public relations for the German Doctors after their return from a mission abroad.
- Practical patch folders with attention-getting topics from our project countries help increase public familiarity with the German Doctors.
- Effective approaches to communication with voluntary doctors and ways of soliciting donations could be found out by setting up a discussion forum with former voluntary doctors.
- Dr. Ausbüttel regularly reports about the German Doctors‘ work, for example with letters and public-relations activities with the aim of increasing the public profile of the organization and donations among practicing physicians.
- Local colleagues are trained in wound care by a specialist during a training session on “Wound Care in Tropical Countries”.
KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KG
KARL STORZ
The internationally leading provider of endoscopes, medical instruments, and equipment, as well as integrated concepts for operating rooms, has supported the German Doctors financially for many years and also provides medical products. The goal of this support is to give people from less-privileged regions access to appropriate and non-strenuous medical treatment.
Nanogate SE
Nanogate
Nanogate AG is a leading provider of high-performance surfaces, which have increasingly found application and provided solutions for emerging medical markets. Nanogate supports the German Doctors with diverse money-raising projects (Christmas activities, Karma Calendar, advertising materials, etc.). This is accompanied by active public relations at different occasions (events, regional networking, internal and external communication) to generate donations for the organization. Further projects re presently being prepared.
Werum IT Solutions GmbH
Werum IT Solutions
Werum IT Solutions is the worldwide leading product-based software solution for the pharmaceutical and biotechnological production of medicaments. Werum aims at long-term and sustainable development and assumes social responsibility. Werum IT Solutions supports the German Doctors in planning doctors‘ missions better with software support and help streams. Werum developed and provided suitable planning software for the German Doctors. Werum employees further support the doctors in their application of the software.
Warner Music Group Central Europe GmbH
Warner Music
Warner Music is an associated partner of the support group. Aside from regular financial donations, the company supports the German Doctors, for example, with its sales campaign “Help! Music donates”, which was carried out together with Amazon at Christmastime, 2019. This campaign managed to label more than 200 hard copies and 100 digital album titles of all kinds with a separate campaign logo and bid for them online. Warner Music donated 50 cents to the German Doctors for every bought or downloaded CD. Our project in Nairobi was delighted with this Christmas present of 25,000 Euros.
Former members
Celesio AG
Celerio has financially supported the German Doctors with specialist expertise and personal engagement of their colleagues since 2004 and was a member of the support group from 2011 to 2016. Celesio placed great value on the safety of medicines, which is an essential topic in developing countries. 32 Celesio pharmacists performed 41 missions in the projects. These volunteers were prepared for their mission with regular training courses. The support included:
- Advising the doctors on site on their choice of providers and producers of medicines,
- Setting up and running minilabs,
- Training local personnel and patients about the correct use of the minilab and medicaments,
- Running a central pharmacy in Calcutta to ensure the correct acquisition, storage and issue of medicaments,
- Setting up the Puspha Celesio Tuberculosis Pediatric Clinic in Calcutta and helping finance the hospital personnel.
What we achieved together:
Fake medicines are a serious danger for our patients. With the help of the minilab from Celesio, we were able to reduce the quote of fake medicines among those issued in our Nairobi project from over 9% to 0%. The success was even greater in Calcutta: the quote of fake drugs was over 30% in 2005; this could be reduced to about 4%. After setting up the central pharmacy in 2012, a reduction to 0% was also achieved in Calcutta in 2012. Building the Tuberculosis Pediatric Clinic also represented a huge step forward. Numerous children from the slums of Calcutta could be healed there.
Airtours (TUI Deutschland GmbH)
Airtours was an associated partner of the support group from 2011 to 2015 and supported the German Doctors with their specialist know-how. The goal was to organize and carryout donor trips to our projects at net cost price to thank our long-term supporters and partners in industry for their engagement and show them the urgency of our work.
German Doctors help worldwide
We believe in the right of every human being to get medical care no matter their origin. Therefore our volunteer German Doctors offer medical treatments in developing countries for the poorest of the poor. Whether people infected with HIV, undernourished children deficiency syndromes or people with chronic diseases, we help everyone who needs help.
Our doctors work during their annual leave or retirement for a period of six weeks and waive any compensation. More than 7000 missions with more than 3200 doctors were completed since 1983.
