IMAHelps Information

IMAHelps is an Indian Wells, Calif- based on-profit 501 (c)(3) charity organization that provides basic healthcare and hygiene education, medical diagnoses, prescriptions, prostheses and life-changing surgeries to some of the poorest people of Central and South America and the Caribbean. We have no paid staff. We are comprised exclusively of volunteers who cover their own costs of travel to participate in our humanitarian missions. We do fundraising through our website and through special events to raise money to pay for the medicines and supplies we use on each medical mission. IMAHelps selects locations for its medical missions in concert with local health officials who highlight specific communities where people suffer the most from poverty, lack of education and limited healthcare services. IMAHelps selects volunteers for its medical missions based on their professional education, licensing and experience. IMAHelps seeks volunteers from every healthcare specialty, including dentistry; optometry; general surgery; orthopedic surgery, plastic and maxillofacial surgery; internal medicine; obstetrics and gynecology; pediatrics; urology; physical therapy; prosthetics; and pharmacy. IMAHelps also seeks surgical and medical support team volunteers, including anesthesiologists, nurses, surgical technicians and interpreters. A limited number of student volunteers are also used on some IMAHelps missions, provided they can fulfill specific mission support functions identified by the IMAHelps Board of Directors. Past Missions have been to Ecuador, Nicaragua, India, Peru, El Salvador, and China. In 2017, IMAHelps provided free care to our 100,000th patient in Itaugua, Paraguay.