Today, more than 6 billion people populate our earth and every minute another 150 people are born.
However, about one third of these pregnancies are unintentional.
AIDS spreads dramatically.
-          Education and targeted, reasonable family planning schemes
 in cooperation with Riverboat-Doctors-International.

Malaria is still the worst scourge of tropic regions.
      -    RDI wants to teach people how to protect themselves and how to preserve lives through early medical diagnosis and immediate measures.

Diseases which are hardly existent in industrialized countries and which can be healed with minor medical efforts very often present a major problem in developing regions such as Africa.
Frequently, not even the most basic medical supplies are available.
Thus, healing prospects are reduced dramatically and many people suffer from poor health which more often than not is fatal.

With proper medication,
 this burn could be healed fast.

The current situation:

According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), 30 of the 34 least developed countries are situated in sub-Saharan Africa. The lower 25 ranks are taken by African countries only, with Sierra Leone at the bottom of the list. Nowhere else is the kind of aid required more complex than in these countries. Many organizations have set out to aid these populations, helping with financial donations or donations in kind. Donations help finance the drilling and building of wells or the purchase of generators. RDI trains local people so they are able to maintain and repair generators, etc., by themselves.

Nowhere else is the number of mothers dying during childbirth higher than in Africa.

Water from this uncovered
well is drunken without even
filtering it.

Many donations in kind are being sent from Germany, e.g., devices for medical diagnoses, among others. Unfortunately, there are not enough trained personnel in Africa who are able to use the devices properly. RDI is planning on training local people in the usage of these devices.

Medications are also donated to Africa. RDI is going to store these medications properly and distribute them to those in need free of charge.

This leg could still be saved …
… if there were experts available locally!