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News
RAM's 2008 Schedule is posted here.

June 17, 2008:
Please read THIS LETTER from Stan Brock, RAM founder.



Announcements

UPCOMING Expedition The next expedition will be at Heritage Middle School in Maryville, TN, on July 12-13, 2008. Details here.

Past Expedition At the expedition on Jan. 5-6 in Knoxville TN, RAM brought 1343 free services to people. There were 504 eyeglasses provided, 1066 teeth extracted and 567 fillings done. There were 276 volunteers. The total value of free care was $235,497.00.

Swaziland Food Aid
A new RAM project is the Swaziland Food Aid project. Click here for details.

RAM Newsletter
We are using our mailing list to keep interested people informed of RAM activities. If you haven't received any newsletters from us, and would like to, please join our mailing list by filling in your email address at the bottom of this page.

Suggestions for the website?
Send them to ram.website@gmail.com. The editorial team welcomes your feedback.

Submissions Invited!
If you have volunteered with RAM and have written a journal or other review of the experience, we invite you to submit it for possible inclusion in either the website or the newsletter. Please send any such correspondance to newsletter@ramusa.org.


Not all submissions will be published, and RAM retains the right to edit contents for clarity and accuracy.

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To watch the RAM segment that appeared recently on the CBS NEWS television program 60 MINUTES please CLICK HERE .

Donations can be sent to RAM by mail to:

Remote Area Medical Foundation
1834 Beech Street
Knoxville, TN 37920
865-579-1530

or through Paypal (credit card donations are serviced by PayPal):
 

Recurring monthly donations are now supported on our Donation Page.

Click here for our Volunteer Application


NOW RECRUITING:
1-3 CATARACT SURGEONS.
Location: Guyana, South America.
Date: November 9 - 23, 2008 or any time frame within those dates.
Help bring sight to the Amerindian people of southern Guyana aboard the U S Navy's hospital carrier ship the U S S Kearsarge off the coast of Georgetown and at village hospitals in the southern interior.
Phaco equipment will be used. Contact: ram@ramusa.org or call 865.579.1530 and ask for the Volunteer Coordinator.


If you have come to our website because you just learned of RAM's work from the coverage of 60 Minutes or other media, welcome. We invite you to explore our site to learn more about us.

If you have questions about our financials, our most recent reports are available by email request.

See our FAQ for more details.


Donors Needed

Remote Area Medical depends heavily on people like you. Please make your generous contribution now so that our all-volunteer organization can continue to provide free health care services (dental, vision, medical, and veterinary) to those who are under-employed or under-insured. Over 90% of unrestricted donations go directly to service programs. Over 60% of our programs are based in poverty areas of the United States.

Remote Area Medical, Inc., and Remote Area Medical Foundation are 501(c)(3) publicly supported charities.


The Spring Cervical Cancer teams for Guyana are finishing up this season's work. Our ongoing work in Guyana is in need of the following:

We have a critical need for the following donated services:

  • a US lab to process ThinPrep Paps
  • a US lab to process pathology specimens from cervical biopsies and LEEPs

We have a critical need for donation of the following items:

  • LEEP electrodes: Ball electrodes, 2 cm loop electrodes, 1 cm square electrodes
  • LEEP grounding pads
  • Sterile tubing for smoke evacuator
  • Digene HC2 specimen collection kits (package containing the vial and brush)

Please contact Guyana Cervical Cancer Program Director, Rebecca Kightlinger, DO (rkightlinger@virginia.edu)


Future home of the RAM Center in Guyana, South America

RAM volunteer Mark Ely traveled to Guyana for a month on assignment to repair and re-open the old Manari airstrip at the site of the planned RAM CENTER near the Brazil border. Along with great help from RAM volunteers Jeff and Marta Ware and RAM air ambulance pilot Terrence Trapnell, Mark accomplished the work in record time and under budget. Terrence Trapnell made the inaugural landing on the new strip on Saturday September 22nd 2007. Work on construction of the RAM CENTER which will deal with cervical cancer and advanced medical and veterinary problems in the region will begin as funds permit. This project is made possible by Mrs Margaret Orella Harris and Mr Louis Orella who own the property and are assigning it for use as the RAM CENTER to Remote Area Medical.


TERRENCE TRAPNELL HONORED FOR HIS HUMANITARIAN SERVICE

"At a recent ceremony in the Lyndon B. Johnson Room of the US Capitol Building on September 17th 2007, Terrence Trapnell was awarded the 'OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SUPPORT OF PUBLIC BENEFIT FLYING' honors for 2007 by the National Aeronautic Association. Terrence Trapnell is a volunteer bush pilot with the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps (RAM) who, in association with Wings of Hope, operate a free air ambulance MEDEVAC service in Guyana. Terrence is also the volunteer coordinator of RAM medical and veterinary activities at the RAM Base in Lethem, Guyana."


Wise VA Expedition largest of it kind in US

The recent RAM Expedition to Wise County, VA in the heart of Appalachia is believed to be the largest free medical event of its kind ever held in the United States. In a two and a half day period from July 20th to July 22nd, a force of 1,377 RAM volunteers accomplished 8,431 patient encounters for a value of free care amounting to $ 1,365,804.00.


RAM in the Media

Links to media reports about Remote Area Medical have been assembled here.


Letters

Occasionally, we receive letters from patients and from volunteers, expressing their reaction to the free care we provide or their experience of service. We have posted some of them here.


Take a moment to see the RAM Promo Video.
 
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