International Village Clinic

IVC is a Minnesota Nonprofit Providing Hope and Vitality to Women and Families in Rural Villages in India Through High Quality Healthcare

IVC's HISTORY

Abul Sharah was a fatherless, impoverished boy from, Uttar Pradesh, India's poorest province. By chance, brains and hard work, he earned an education and rose to senior engineering and marketing positions at Honeywell and MTS Systems over a 27-year career. In 1996, Dr. Sharah was harboring a growing desire to give something back in appreciation for his good fortune when chance intervened. 

While on a business trip to Calcutta, India, Dr. Sharah scheduled in time for a visit to Mother Theresa's Home for Dying Destitutes. By coincidence, he arrived at the hour when the nun received visitors. After learning of his humble Indian roots and success in the United States, mother Theresa urged Dr. Sharah to pursue a mission of "love and human service."

Dr. Abul Sharah retired from corporate life, returned to Uttar Pradesh and founded International Village Clinic in October 1999 to transform his dream into reality; investing the rest of his life to helping improve the quality of life in the region.

 

LONG TERM VISION 
Dr. Sharah spent many months working with local residents and leaders to identify which changes would bring the greatest benefits to the region. As a result of these conversations, three interrelated goals were identified as key to improving the region's standard of living: health care, education and income.   

IVC has focused its attention on building up the region's health care system, including establishing a medical clinic which provides nutrition, vaccination and health-education programs delivered by qualified medical personnel in an area where illiteracy and disease are rampant. 

CARE IN MINNESOTA LEADS TO HOPE ACROSS THE WORLD

The roots of IVC are in Minnesota, where Dr. Sharah spent most of his professional life.  The board, the donors and the philosophy of IVC are all in Minnesota, but the substantial impact of Minnesotan's generosity are felt a world away, in rural India.   Because of this amazing work, IVC is able to distribute nutritional supplements to over 2600 children and pregnant women, provide screenings and health interventions for families and care for over 40,000 malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, asthma and other common diseases for patients in the clinic.

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED

Your Gift Can Help:

Bring preventive and curative health care services to over 200,000 patients in 60 villages.
Save children from blindness and malnutrition.
Save young lives by expanding the vaccination and nutrition programs, continuing and improving our baby delivery and in-patient services.
Help girls stay in school by providing necessary sanitation and privacy
Provide pre and post natal care to pregnant women which helps increase birth weight and prevents complications for both mother and child

Your donation is tax deductible, and 99% of it goes towards providing health care services in India because of our low overhead!

FIND OUT MORE
Please visit the International Village Clinic website @ http://www.villageclinic.org/ for more information on our operations, efforts and involvement opportunities!