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Summer volunteers at the
Svir Stroi orphanage help children, "one child at a time."
MIRAMED — WHAT IT MEANS
“Mir” is the Russian word for both peace and world.
“Med” is for medicine or healing.

Healing the suffering of the world’s children will heal the pain of our world.
—Juliette M. Engel, MD, Founder


STAFF
MiraMed maintains a full-time office and staff in Moscow which currently employs 35 people, 31 of which are Russian nationals, doctors, social workers, psychologists and administrative staff, who work at the MiraMed Center for Social Adaptation, the Tsaritsyn Community Center and in MiraMed's Moscow office. The full time staff includes three Americans and one British citizen. In the U.S., we maintain an office in Seattle.

TAX EXEMPT INFORMATION
MiraMed is a 501C3 nonprofit public charity, registered with the U.S. government. The organization is also registered in Russia as a representative office of a nonprofit charity. All contributions are tax-exempt. As required by Federal law, our tax returns are on file with the U.s. government and with the Secretary of State in Olympia, Washington, Charities Division. Our most recent filing shows that 89% of our income is used for programs. We do not use any commercial fund-raising organization or individual or professional "grant writers".

WEBSITE & NEWSLETTER
We are gratefully indebted to Geoffrey Gage and Lorinda Hanson of Geoffrey Carlson Gage internet advertising and marketing agency who gave MiraMed a new logo and our website a beautiful new look!