Our mission is to provide comprehensive community-based healthcare for children, adolescents, and their families living in precarious situations or poverty.
Health is an inalienable right of every child, as enshrined in Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This article affirms every child's right to 'the highest attainable standard of health' and to 'facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health,' with a strong emphasis on the 'development of primary healthcare.'
Health and healthcare are not mere by-products of economic progress, which rarely or never reach the poorest. Rather, they are prerequisites for and means of sustainable development.
We serve as a bridge between the existing resources of health facilities—whether international, national, or local—and the lived experiences of the poorest and sickest communities in the world. The central idea of our mission is based on solidarity, as even children who have lost in the lottery of birth have the right to comprehensive healthcare and the empowerment for self-responsibility.
For healthcare to truly heal, it must go beyond evidence-based prevention and treatment of diseases. It must allow for access to sufficient food, safe living spaces, loving care, education, and the opportunity for play and leisure.
R. Hartel for odoVita
NEWS:
Clinic Opening105
odoVita opened the first Community health clinic in Barangay 105, Tondo, Manila to serve our community better providing comprehensive community health services. With your support, we finished the construction of the first examination room - and can continue providing care. As soon as we find more funds, the second phase of the construction will start! Follow our journey.
ANNUAL REPORT 2024
2024 has been an extraordinary year for us, marked
by the highest highs of founding odoVita, building a
community health clinic, and, most importantly, making
a life-and-death-difference in a few lives.
It has also brought us the lowest lows that we must learn to
live with. While we all owe death a life, Baby Ruth had to
die far too soon and a stupid death - one that could have
easily been prevented by a functioning health system. We
know that there will be more of these unnecessary deaths,
and each one will continue to haunt us. Progress overall has
been too slow.
But giving up is not an option. And since we are not alone
we are confident that in 2025, together, we will do more,
improve, and - where we fail - fail better....
