Dear Colleagues
Doctors Day in May is this Friday. I hope that you are in a position to join hundreds of other doctors who are participating this year – some have already made substantial contributions.
Please recall,
- This is quite possibly the most effective and efficient way for the majority of us to use our medical skills in order to make a real contribution to health in the developing world. In other words, in most cases this is at least every bit as effective as if you would have travelled to Africa and volunteered.
- Your contribution is greatly appreciated. Remind yourself just how much…
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- Your contribution is fully tax- deductible and the directors pay all administrative fees of the Foundation so your contribution is further leveraged.
Just imagine if you contributed a day’s pay on a yearly basis for 12 years. That would be the equivalent of paying an African doctor’s wage for about 1 year. In other words you could look back in 12 years’ time and realise you had effectively “volunteered for a year in Africa”. It’s not quite the same but in some ways it is better because wages feed into the local communities and new skill sets are acquired and preserved (particularly by training nurses). You would also be inspiring other doctors to get on board and you would be mentoring philanthropy to junior doctors coming through.
Not a bad 12 days’ work in 12 years! Possibly the most effective medical work you could do. This is indeed an opportunity. If there wasn’t a huge need and there wasn’t a large discrepancy between medical wages here compared with Africa, this opportunity would not exist!
Please make your contribution for Doctors Day in May at
Regards to all
Rob Baume
(On behalf of the directors of TTD Foundation)
17 May 2016