All Tribes Initiatives conducts medical outreaches that provide free medical care, dental services and eye care to people in vulnerable IDP and tribal communities. A team of doctors, dentists, nurses and other professionals join forces to examine, diagnose and treat patients with a wide variety of ailments.
Patients can fill doctors’ prescriptions at the onsite pharmacy ATI sets up and, when necessary, can return for follow-up visits later in the week before the outreach ends. Doctors treat wounds and injuries, preventing or caring for infection. They perform minor surgeries that relieve what are sometimes long-standing discomforts and conditions that bring with them an ostracizing social stigma. Onsite surgeries return sight to those blinded by cataracts, and our dental clinic addresses both preventative and urgent needs, from cleanings to abscesses and extractions. All these services bring healing and health to vulnerable people who have no other access to meet their needs.
Though the marginalized often contend with unmet needs to a greater degree, ATI has served IDP people groups in Ethiopia and Somaliland and, while doing so, has often been able to serve the general community as well by providing health care and meeting widely-experienced needs.