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Selfless UK has operated for over 12 years now. Our mission has always been centred around tackling health inequalities – both nationally and internationally. Over the years we have worked in [...]

Dr Na’eem Ahmed, Founder of “Selfless”, has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for his outstanding contribution to volunteering and Healthcare in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List [...]

Applications are still open for Elective Aid 2019 Elective Aid is a 10-day global health programme for aspiring medical leaders. Click HERE to find out more and apply This year’s programme will [...]

Unicef report that since violence erupted across Rakhine State, Myanmar, on 25 August 2017, some 656,000 refugees have poured across the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh. They have joined [...]

This summer, 22 volunteers from across the UK and US will be travelling to Bangladesh as part of Selfless’ Global Health Leadership Programme ‘Elective Aid’. The Elective Aid [...]

Dr Na’eem Ahmed joined Robert Elms on his BBC Radio London show to discuss Selfless and volunteering. Na’eem covered his journey with Selfless, outlining the volunteering activities [...]

Almost 656,000 Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh. According to Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG)’s rapid needs assessment, 58 per cent of new arrivals are children and 60 per cent [...]

Selfless held its Global Health Leadership Awards to recognise the efforts of volunteers that had travelled to Bangladesh on the Elective Aid 2017 mission. The medical students worked with local [...]

The Need Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of ocular morbidity in the world. 800,000 people are blind in Bangladesh, with 70-80% caused by treatable cataract. The incidence of cataract is [...]

Thirteen volunteers from across the United Kingdom travelled to Bangladesh this summer to provide health camps to underserved parts of rural Bangladesh. The volunteers worked with local partner [...]