Our mission is to provide comprehensive community-based healthcare for children, adolescents, and their families living in precarious situations or poverty.

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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.'

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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.

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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.