Wellness Worldwide is focused on providing both complex and basic medical care as well as nutrition to thousands of impoverished families across Afghanistan.
About Us
Wellness Worldwide for Sustainable Communities is a US non-profit 501c3 organization, founded in 2019, which provides healthcare, educational and social support to vulnerable populations. We have developed a novel approach which uses teams of doctors from the US, Afghanistan, Europe, India and Pakistan to treat severely ill children within their region.
Our founder, Dr. Meena Said, is an endocrine surgeon in Los Angeles whose family fled Afghanistan as refugees when she was just a baby. Meena’s humanitarian work dates back 23 years. In response to the crisis in Afghanistan, she set up a network of volunteer doctors to formulate treatment plans for complex cancer cases and addressed the needs of communities on the ground by establishing a free clinic and delivering food aid.
Find out more about Meena and her work here (BBC interview) and here (Medium profile article).
Our team of volunteers at Wellness Worldwide provides complex medical, surgical and cancer care to critically ill children in Afghanistan; operates a free medical clinic in a refugee camp, and manages food distribution programs in times of crisis.
Our Team
Nargis Ahadi
Lisa Chaiken MD
Sara Choudhry
Leland Foshag MD
Isabel Kilroe
Ximena Kilroe
Sara Manely
Obaidullah Sahil
Meena Said, MD
Isabel Soria
Some of our on-the-ground volunteers