Our President and Co-Founder Dr. Joseph Salim was invited to present at the U.S. State Department’s “Global Initiative – Women in Action” International Visitor Leadership Program at the United Nations in New York.
In Tumu in northwestern Ghana, there’s only one hospital to serve 100,000 people and transportation is scarce. The result: injured children never see a doctor, women die in labor before they can reach medical help. But those appalling facts started to change when Women in the World, Virtue Foundation and Toyota came along with a few simple solutions.
On March 5, 2013, the Auxiliary Board and its Young Women’s Division recognized Virtue’s Director of International Programming and Global Health Dr. Ebby Elahi for his leading role in improving global health.