Team Rubicon and Doctors Outreach Clinics have teamed to bring, Drip Drop, an advanced oral rehydration solution (ORS) to Pakistan. Developed by Dr. Eduardo Dolhun, Drip Drop is used to combat cholera, dehydration, and diarrhea. The team is traveling in remote areas to treat internally displaced persons (IDPs) of the Pakistani flood crisis. In addition to treatment, the team is training IDPs how to make the solution with locally available resources. Indigenizing the solution is the end goal of the team, so that those we treated are less of a burden on the already stretched thin government, security forces, and NGOs. Dolhun is Mayo Clinic trained and educated, teaches at Stanford, and deployed with Team Rubicon to Haiti.

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Team Rubicon needs your financial support for its operations in Pakistan. With widespread reports about the misuse of donations, Team Rubicon offers donors a unique look into how your money is spent. We call it the Donor-Responder connection. Along with our detailed After Action Reports, what you get is transparency. Stay tuned as Team Rubicon responds to one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history. Haiti AAR Chile AAR From the Associated Press: GENEVA — As Washington demands more transparency from Pakistan on how it's spending its flood aid money, a U.N. agency has launched an unusual appeal for relief funds to be sent directly to a Pakistani or Swiss bank account — with none of the usual monitoring safeguards.

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