Texas A&M student group partners with MrBeast to expand medical clinics

What's happening

The organization announced in an April 26 news release that Beast Philanthropy would help fund the construction of five clinics.

New clinics will be placed in communities in Massachusetts, Kenya, Nigeria and Ukraine. Houston-based nonprofit Medical Bridges has promised to supply the clinics with repurposed medical equipment before being shipped out, according to the release.

BUILD operates largely through student volunteers and serves more than 200,000 people.

What they're saying

BUILD officials say the program provides both humanitarian impact and hands-on learning opportunities for participants.

"I think BUILD is really the essence of building the new generation up to help solve these problems, solve these crazy issues that people are dealing with," BUILD's CFO Chris Permetti said in the release. "You're building these shipping containers into fully functional medical clinics ... but you're also building these leaders and these students up to go take on these world challenges."

For the TAMC sent to Worcester, Mass., Donaldson commented in the release on the significance of the project.

"Since we started filming this video, over 2,500 lives have already been impacted by these clinics, and we estimate that another 10,000 people will be impacted over the next year," he said. "[It's] pretty crazy that this all started with some college students, really shows that if you want to, you can have an impact."

He added the clinic would serve more than 40 families every week.