Stan Brock and Remote Area Medical

This is a deeply touching story and one that deserves much attention and support. It would be nice to see some corporate sponsors help with this great organization. 

Brock is British by birth, and an adventurer at heart. He was a cowboy in the Amazon and then, incredibly, he was discovered by TV's "Wild Kingdom." Brock was a star - sort of a naturalist daredevil - for the program in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Today Brock is devoted to RAM - completely devoted. He has no family, takes no salary, and has no home. Brock lives in an abandoned school that the city of Knoxville leases to RAM for $1.

How does he pay for all the care and supplies?

"In the first place we really know how to stretch the dollar. We operate entirely on the generosity of the American people. I'd like to say that we had big corporate support in America but we don’t. So it’s the little checks from those people who send in the $5 and $10," Brock explained.

RAM operates on a shoestring budget of about $250,000 a year. Yet, last year, it treated 17,000 patients.

Nearly everything is donated, and everyone is a volunteer. The care is free.

Donate to RAM

Few medical relief charities can compare with RAM in the scope of services offered, frequency of teams dispatched, and the variety of locations served. And the out-of-pocket cost to RAM averages less than $2 per patient!

Would you like to make a measurable difference in the lives of hundreds of impoverished people? Your charitable investment will go farther and work harder at Remote Area Medical

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Please make checks or money orders payable to the Remote Area Medical Foundation. The Foundation is committed to developing and implementing RAM's programs. Always, the aim is to help relieve suffering, cure disease, restore sight and enhance the lives of thousands of impoverished and isolated people and their animals every year. Over 90% of your contributions go to RAM programs and services to help people in need.

You may choose an area of special interest:

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  Total Program Support (Non-designated funds are always our greatest need!)
• 
  The Rural AMerican Project
• RAM Veterinary Projects
• 
  Guyana Women's Health
• RAM Airborne
• RAM Air Ambulance

Remote Area Medical, Inc., and Remote Area Medical Foundation are 501(c)(3) publicly supported charities.

Remote Area Medical

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http://www.ramusa.org/ 

Best wishes. 

Better not, Stan Brock understands that life ( and all its undertakings ) is a pilgrimage, life is not  an orphanage!RAM is an entity in itself.

dr. elna