About Us

International Healthcare Volunteers is a not for-profit organization that provides free healthcare to women in under served areas and provides continuing medical education to healthcare professionals in these areas. Patients in these countries are dying from what would be simple medical problems in the United States due to lack of access to medical resources. Established in 2001, International Healthcare Volunteers is composed of doctors and nurses, many of whom work at many local hospitals. Funded entirely by donations, the organization is headed by James Aikins, Jr., MD, a gynecologic oncologist at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey and an assistant professor of OB/GYN at UMDNJ / Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Continuing To Improve Women’s Health and Healthcare International Healthcare Volunteers plans to continue and expand this vital work. Our plans include:

• Providing medical and surgical services to under served regions of Ghana and other African countries.
• Expanding missions to South America and Caribbean beginning in 2006.
• Establishing ongoing medical education seminars for healthcare professionals in under-served areas.
• Providing support for resident physician training in under served areas.

This work will only be possible with your help. To improve women’s health and healthcare in these under served areas, International Healthcare Volunteers needs financial support, as well as donations of medical and surgical equipment and supplies and medications. Click here to check out some scenes from our most recent work in Ghana.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Charletta Ayers – Chairperson
• James Mensah - Vice Chairman
• James Aikins – Medical Director
• Ricardo Caraballo – Deputy Medical Director
• Adwea Brew – Nursing Director
• Adam Holzberg - Secretary
• George Hayford - Treasurer
• Victor Essien
• Felicity Polley
• G.Kwame Polley
• Michelle Salvatore
• Michele Sehdev

FUND-RAISING COMMITTEE

• Jocelyn Mitchell-Williams - Chairperson
• Michelle Sehdev – Co-Chairperson
• Charletta Ayers
• Michelle Burlaga
• Jayci Knights
• Patricia Mason
• Felicity Polley
• Ann Guitos
• Michelle Salvatore

ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORTS

Audited Financial Statements (Adobe PDF - 1755kb) December 31, 2004