Dr. Dillard is accomplished in business, engineering, law, and medicine. After successfully founding and operating a high-tech corporation, he attended medical school believing healthcare should be free to all citizens of the world.  After receiving his medical degree, he practiced for a few years before deciding to dedicate and commit his life to provide medical services to villages in developing countries. 

 

He chose to start in Sierra Leone after learning about the devastation and suffering a civil war and the world-known Ebola epidemic caused there.

 

He founded the Institute For Progressive and Sustainable Development, believing a community must have good healthcare before it can reinvent itself after sustaining two disasters. He chose the Kono District in Sierra Leone as it was the essential battleground of the civil war and Ebola epidemic. Sierra Leone has a population of 7.6 million and maintains 109 physicians.  Dr. Dillard makes that number now, 110.  It is an overwhelming task but he believes he can make a difference; one village at a time.

 

Dr. Dillard, and his assistant Frenchie Holmes, entered Jaimia, a village in Kono District in March 2021 and reopened the closed clinic, AHIA-MASS Medical Center.  After a week of cleaning and sanitizing the clinic, they began serving patients before noticing 83 percent of the patients they serviced suffered from typhoid fever.  Today, they’re on a mission to completely wipe out typhoid in the village. That mission includes providing clean water filtering in every village home, providing stand-alone solar lighting to each home and school, as well as providing bicycles for student transport to far-away schools.

 

IPSD was awarded its 501-3(c) status in August 2021.  Dr. Dillard has self-funded the villages’ healthcare from its start.  With the institution’s new tax-exempt status, he hopes to make a major impact in the development of the Jaimia Village and the other 23 villages and towns in the Kono District.