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What we do

Three programmes, and the line between them.

We fund care we do not deliver. Naming what we do not do is part of describing what we do.

1 · Financial assistance

Direct grants to patients, and to the hospitals and patient-support organisations treating them, against costs treatment alone does not cover: transfusions, chelation and other long-course medication, diagnostics, and travel to the centre that can treat the condition. Grants are made to institutions wherever possible, so the money is applied against an actual invoice rather than reimbursed after the fact.

2 · Education and access

Materials, and access to medical knowledge and resources, for patients, their families and the people caring for them. For chronic conditions the caregiver carries most of the management between clinic visits, and the quality of that management is decided by what they were given to work with.

3 · Advocacy and awareness

Raising awareness of acute, chronic and life-threatening illness, and advocating for patient rights in underserved communities — including where a condition is common enough to be routine and still not resourced.

What we do not do

We are not a treatment provider and we hold no clinical facility. We do not fund research. We do not solicit or hold patient medical records. Where a grant supports a named patient, it is administered by the treating partner, not by us.

The partner model

Funds raised in the United States are disbursed as programme grants, principally in Bangladesh, to partner hospitals and patient-support organisations, and to vendors supplying medical and educational materials. Partners are selected on existing clinical capacity and on their willingness to account for a grant against named costs.