Medic To Medic

Established in 2012 Health Workers for All was first set up in 2007 under the programme name Medic to Medic as an innovative scheme to support trainee health workers in low-income countries.  Many countries suffer from a chronic shortage of health works to provide health services to their population, particularly in rural areas. Health Workers for All focus on supporting those who are most likely to drop out from their training for financial or pastoral reasons, such as students from rural areas, students with non-professional parents and students with little family support such as orphans.

For the past five years, Medic to Medic has operated as an independent programme within an umbrella charity (The International Medical Education Trust 2000 – IMET2000). By 2012, we had expanded enough to become an independent organisation: Health Workers For All in which we run our current programmes: Medic to Medic (supporting medical students), REACH (physiotherapy students) and New Solutions (pharmacy students).

Aim

We aim to support trainee health workers throughout their education who are in financial need but have academic potential.

What we do

Our programs link students to donors, in this way we function along the lines of ‘sponsor a child’ schemes run by well-known charities. Although we link individual students, we pool our donations so that even if a donor withdraws, no student is disadvantaged.

Our students send their linked sponsor regular updates on their progress. This can be developed into a correspondence if the donor wishes. We hope this will not only provide mentoring advice  for medical students, but will also raise awareness of the conditions facing medical colleagues worldwide.