Introducing Surmang Foundation

Enabling the right to life, creating access to basic services, contributing to revitalization among the critically poor

Everyone has the right to a healthy and fulfilling life. Access to affordable and quality healthcare is essential for wellbeing, reducing poverty, and realizing this entitlement.

There are 30 million people in China who earn less than ¥1 per day (about 14¢ US.)
They are the ultra-poor, living in mountainous and isolated areas throughout Western China.

Surmang, in remote Qinghai province, is one such place. Living close to the earth, their natural environment is pristine and untouched by development. Living as traditional farmers or nomadic herders, their lifestyle is much the same as their ancestors'. Unfortunately, their world is also shadowed by medieval maternal and childhood risk.

The economic miracle of the coastal regions has not reach these remote people. Surmang other ultra-poor communities are off the social grid and whatever health services exist are either woefully inadequate or painfully far away.

Surmang Foundation is doing something about this. We have provided free medical care to over 70,000 patients in the past 11 years and have created a corps of community health workers who are the eyes and ears of the remote Surmang clinic. Surmang foundation has created a pro-active model of regional-medicine that works in one of the poorest parts of China.

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