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World Doctors Italy & WeWorld in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Syrien

28.03.2024 Rapporto di collaborazione Medici dell'Alto Adige per il Mondo e WeWorld

We speak of projects – but what truly matters are the people. The association World Doctors reflects on ...

20.05.2025 After her first volunteer experience, Berta Schweitzer decided to return to Ethiopia for three weeks to support the Salesian sisters at the Gubrye social center. But shortly after her arrival, Sister Rosaria, the head of the center, had to be ...

Ukraine: A Hospital Wing Rebuilt

30.04.2025 World Doctors Italy and the White Cross South Tyrol provide ongoing humanitarian assistance in war-torn Ukraine Plans rarely survive contact with reality — particularly in a war zone. “Originally, we intended to support reconstruction ...

Finally, Hearing Screening for Babies in Nepal

16.04.2025 World Doctors Italy: ENT specialists Christian Streitberger and Nadia Giarbini protect children from hearing disorders at Dhulikhel Hospital. Hearing is essential for children to “grasp” the world. In our part of the world, newborns are ...

International Women's Day is everywhere, including Ethiopia: the Dakuna women's projecte by World Doctors ...

07.03.2025 Sofia Asfa and Her 79 Colleagues When we look, we see them. Let’s zoom in on Ethiopia. Women are there, every single day. They send their children to school. They walk for miles to fetch water. Where there is construction, they carry the ...

Craftsmen from Val Venosta/Vinschgau in Etiopia!

28.03.2024 Recently, five craftsmen from Vinschgau, members of World Doctors Italy, returned from Ethiopia, where they provided valuable services at the Attat Hospital for ten days. Their efforts focused particularly on optimizing the hospital's water ...

Contribution from the Foundation "Südtiroler Sparkasse"

28.03.2024 We sincerely thank the Foundation "Südtiroler Sparkasse" for their contribution of 5,000 Euro for the construction of a library at the Abba Pascal Secondary School in Soddo, Ethiopia. The foundation had already supported this school ...

THANKS a lot to all the friends of "FELDHTURNS FOR AFRICA"

28.03.2024 This incredible amount is entirely dedicated to the needy patients at Attat Hospital, who cannot afford medical treatment. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this initiative.

Water for 18.500 people in Ethiopia

26.11.2024 World Doctors Italy: visit of the projects in Ethiopia These are not just numbers: 31 wells, 23 km of water pipelines for 35 villages and 18,500 residents. These are people, many people, who now, thanks to access to clean drinking water, can ...

New calendar 2025

24.10.2024 25 Years World Doctors Italy 16 Years of support for Attat Hospital What interests people, and why should they buy a calendar from our association? These are thoughts we have intensely considered after a year-long pause. And now the result is ...

5 per mille for the association

15.03.2024 Over the past years, World Doctors has set up many projects in the fields of education, medicine and hygiene using South Tyrolean taxpayers' money. Five per thousand on your tax return. For World Doctors, that makes all the difference. ...

World Doctors Italy reports. More than 87% of the income is used to support projects around the globe. ...

16.05.2024 Continue, now more than ever! We courageously keep going on. Development assistance gets more important as more bad news reach us from the world: crises, wars and diseases must not weaken our enthusiasm. "The world remains an insecure ...

One family and three generations serve in Kalighat, Mother Teresa's Home for the Destitute in Calcutta

27.03.2024 Shortly before Christmas, Margarethe and Anna Näckler, two members of World Doctors Italy, returned from their mission at Mother Teresa's Home for the Destitute in Calcutta. Many people have they accompanied on their last journey through life. ...

Attat hospital for 1 million inhabitants without water for days

28.02.2024 World Doctors report on their mission in Ethiopia "Attat Hospital was without water for days," reports the dentist Andreas Ploner from Bolzano, Italy, after his return from Ethiopia. Together with his wife Irene, he went back to the ...

Charity Party organized by Rotary Club and Soroptimist Merano

26.09.2023 The Rotary Club and Soroptimist Merano collected the incredible sum of 20,000 euros at a charity carnival party on February 3rd at the KIMM in Merano Untermais. This amount has been divided between the two associations, the South Tyrolean ...

World Doctors Italy - Ethiopia 2023

31.05.2023 NEW VIDEO from Giulia Pedron: Ethiopia 2023

Dr. Josef Röd Secondary School, Brunico/Bruneck charity run

20.06.2023 On 26 May, the Dr. Josef Röd secondary school in Bruneck organized a charity run in aid of the World Doctors association. Over 400 pupils took part and in the end, an incredible 21,389.60 euros were raised. Manuela Mölgg, Werner Heel and Gert ...

The Association World Doctors takes stock

15.05.2023 Go. Staying. Where does the feeling tilt? The World Doctors Association takes stock. Keyword 2022: Loving Home. That is possible if there is medicine, education and water. Or in other words: perspective. Dreams bring people across the sea. ...

You have these five per mille under control

06.04.2023 Over the past ten years, World Doctors has set up projects in the fields of education, medicine and hygiene using South Tyrolean taxpayers' money. Five per thousand on your tax return. For World Doctors, that makes all the difference. ...