Ongoing Projects
Doctor 2 Doctor
Working under the name of "Doctor 2 Doctor - Flying Expertise Overseas" The VU Medical Center pediatric unit and KLM AirCares collaborate to create long-lasting improvements to medical care for children in Kenya. With KLM's help, pediatricians from the VUmc travel to Kenya, volunteering to help colleagues at the Moi Referral and Teaching Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya to help them broaden their medical skills. The VUmc also sends medical literature to the teaching hospital and invites Kenyan doctors to Amsterdam to amass knowledge and skill. And, since 2007, the program has been treating Kenyan children with difficult conditions at the VUmc in Amsterdam. For more information about Doctor 2 Doctor look at: www.vumc.nl/afdelingen/Vumc-Fonds/Projecten/Overzicht/Doctor2Doctor/
Close the Gap
Close the Gap, founded in 2003, is a Belgian nonprofit organization working to shorten the distance between developed and developing nations in terms of computer hardware and know-how. They do this by collecting used computers from large companies and making them usable in developing nations around the world. With the help of these computers, people in poorer countries can gain access to all the information available on the Internet and have the ability to communicate digitally. The computers are used chiefly for education. KLM is one company that donates computers to Close the Gap. However, computers alone are not enough. A great deal must be done to get all this equipment working and then move it to its final destination. That is where you come in. For more information about Close the Gap visit their website: www.close-the-gap.org
Wings of Support
The Wings of Support initiative was launched by employees at KLM and Martinair. The organization consists of 80 volunteers, who help needy children at KLM and Martinair destinations worldwide. Wings of Support aims to improve the quality of the lives of children in their own living environment.
Wings of Support was established 10 years ago. This provided reason enough for KLM AirCares to select a Wings of Support project as AirCares charity for the last quarter of 2008, and to make Wings of Support an ongoing AirCares-goal.
Visit www.wingsofsupport.org for more information about Wings of Support.