Between December 10th and 12th, 2013, the Virtue Foundation co-sponsored the 2013 Women in Justice Conference, State Responsibility for Eliminating violence Against Women: The Due Diligence Principle and the Role of Judges. Led by the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School, this conference brought together more than 30 judges from…
Virtue Foundation donated two noninvasive ventilators and on-site training to provide respiratory support for children acutely unwell with respiratory failure. Childhood mortality in Tumu is high with one out of seven not reaching a fifth birthday. The NIV Project is an attempt to reduce this and early results are encouraging. Rosie Balfour Lynn and Dr….
Our volunteer medical team returns to Tumu, Northern Ghana as part of the Model Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy, Ghana Healthcare Initiative.
In November, as a continuation of our Tumu Healthcare Initiative, our Austrian team from the University of Vienna will return to Tumu, Ghana to provide services and training toward improving maternal health and women’s healthcare service delivery in the region.
Virtue Foundation honors the first United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer at our annual fundraiser. A long-time champion for women’s empowerment, Verveer is an innovative thought leader working tirelessly for gender equality and women and girls’ rights globally.
Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek & The Daily Beast, discusses Virtue Foundation’s work in the areas of Acid Violence and Women Empowerment.
On June 3, 2013, our team of 21 surgeons, doctors and staff returned from a successful medical and surgical teaching mission in Mongolia. In total, our volunteers spent 3 weeks on the ground in 3 different cities providing free medical and surgical care to families who would otherwise continue to be blind or disabled from…
In Mongolia, seeing is survival. For these nomadic peoples living in remote areas, surgery is an inaccessible, unaffordable luxury. During our fifth Mongolia surgical teaching mission, we will bring life-saving, sight-restoring operations to Mongolians while educating local surgeons. Contribute now by purchasing essential equipment and supplies for our team.
We are continuing our long-term commitment to Women Judges in the Pipeline by supporting the sixth annual LWOB Trial Advocacy Training in Nairobi, Kenya.
As an expert surgeon who has operated on dozens of acid attack survivors, Director of International Programming and Global Health Dr. Ebby Elahi will serve on Acid Survivors Foundation Bangladesh’s Center of Excellence Advisory Committee to study and replicate best practices in acid violence prevention and treatment. For more on our long-term commitment to combating…