Virtue Foundation partners with the El Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development (FUSADES) to launch the Caluco Mobile Health Clinic and collaborates with 911 Fund and Jezreel International to deliver over $55,000.00 USD worth of medical equipment and supplies to 6 Salvadoran communities in need.

Virtue Foundation partners with the El Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development (FUSADES) to launch the Caluco Mobile Health Clinic and collaborates with 911 Fund and Jezreel International to deliver over $55,000.00 USD worth of medical equipment and supplies to 6 Salvadoran communities in need.

Virtue Foundation partners with the El Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development (FUSADES) to launch the Caluco Mobile Health Clinic and collaborates with 911 Fund and Jezreel International to deliver over $55,000.00 USD worth of medical equipment and supplies to 6 Salvadoran communities in need

Non-Invasive Ventilation Program reducing child mortality in Northern Ghana

Since mapping available global health data in November 2011, Co-Founder and Vice President Dr. Joan LaRovere and her team implemented a pilot project—a noninvasive ventilation program for children under five that has reduced cause-specific child mortality rates due to respiratory failure from 14 to 4 percent—in Tumu Hospital. Non-invasive ventilation has also been introduced to…

Virtue Foundation collaborates with Cornell Law School’s Avon Global Center for Women and Justice, Jindal Global Law School and others to support Women and Justice Conference, “Gender-Based Violence and Justice in South Asia,” in New Delhi, India.

October 22-23, 2011–New Delhi, India–Virtue Foundation is proud to support and participate in the Second Annual Women and Justice Conference, “Gender-Based Violence and Justice in South Asia,” hosted by the Cornell Law School’s Avon Global Center for Women and Justice, Jindal Global Law School and developed in collaboration with UN Women, Virtue, Kriti Team, the…

The Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in Ghana collaborates with the Women’s Caucus, Korle Bu and Komfo Anokye Hospitals to deliver more than $300,000.00 USD worth of medical equipment and supplies to hospitals and clinics in 21 districts in Ghana.

August 4, 2011–Accra, Ghana–The Virtue Foundation, an international NGO with special consultative status to the United Nations and charitable status in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ghana, has established the Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in Ghana. The Institute sponsored the shipment of a 40′ container packed with over $300,000.00 USD of…

Virtue Foundation sponsors third surgical teaching mission to Mongolia; volunteer surgeons deliver critical care to patients and provide sustainable skills transfer to local surgeons at the First Hospital and the National Cancer Center in Ulaanbaatar

In May 2011, Virtue Foundation’s Director of International Programming and Global Health Dr. Ebby Elahi led a team of volunteer surgeons, residents and medical students to Mongolia to perform free, essential surgical care and to train local surgeons toward sustainable advancements in surgical healthcare delivery in the country’s capital city, Ulaanbaatar. Dr. Michael Shohet and…

Virtue Foundation hosted 50 judges from 20 countries at the United States Supreme Court and State Department during Senior Roundtable for Women and the Judiciary, March 31st – April 1st, 2011, Washington, D.C.

On March 31st and April 1st, 2011, Virtue Foundation hosted the Senior Roundtable on Women and the Judiciary in Washington, D.C. in collaboration with the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School, the International Association of Women Judges, Lawyers Without Borders, and the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at…

The Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in Ghana Launches the Ghana Jurist in Residence Program in New York, New York and the Ghana Clerkship Program in Accra, Ghana

On April 4, 2011, Ghanaian women circuit court and magistrate court judges began a month-long intensive education and training program on problem-solving courts at the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. As part of the Women Judges in the Pipeline Initiative, the Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in…

World Pulse: Inspired by The Women in the World Summit 2011 highlights the story of acid violence survivors, Yem Chhuon and her 6 year old daughter Sophorn.

Inspired by Women Globally There are many things i am inspired by… The sky, the sound of life and movement, color, flowers, animals, people, culture, travel, places and things. The thing that most inspires me is the VOICE and STORY of a person that is most passionate about what they believe in. The faith they…

Virtue Foundation Provides Emergency Relief Supplies to Survivors of Japan’s Earthquake and Explores Ways to Assist Devastated Coastal Fishing Villages

On Friday March 11, 2011, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in Japan’s history slammed its eastern coast. The massive 9.0 earthquake triggered a 30-foot tsunami wiping out coastal villages and paralyzing Sendai, a city of one million inhabitants. Compounded by warnings of a looming nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of residents of the…